Prof. John Keith

Prof. John Keith is an R. K. Mellon Faculty Fellow in Energy and associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Energy. After obtaining his Ph.D. from Caltech, he was an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ulm and then an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University. He began his independent position at Pitt in September 2013. His group uses first principles-based computational chemistry to study chemical reaction mechanisms for fundamental insights to aid the design of molecular and material catalysts. He received an NSF-CAREER award from CBET Catalysis in 2017 and did a research sabbatical at the University of Luxembourg from 2019-2020. His recent research interests have included mechanistic studies to elucidate electrochemical ozone generation from water, reactive forcefield developments for atomic scale mechanistic studies of corrosion, and the development of new computational methods for broad applications at the confluence of chemistry, materials, and engineering.