Mansi Shah joined the Ph.D. program in Chemical Engineering at University of Minnesota in Fall 2012 and is co-advised by Professors Michael Tsapatsis and J. Ilja Siepmann. She received Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering (2012) from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. Mansi’s research focusses on developing new materials for gas separation, primarily zeolites for adsorptive sour gas sweetening, using a combination of molecular simulations and experiments. Her doctoral research resulted in a patent application and three publications in prestigious journals. She is a recipient of several awards including Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2016), Foundations of Molecular Modeling & Simulations
Graduate Student and Postdoc Award (2015), Scriven Research Fellowship (2012), Graduate Studies Fellowship in Chemical Engineering (2012), Sarojben and Pratapray Shah Memorial Scholarship (2009–2012), Sir Ratan Tata Scholarship (2009). After graduation, Mansi aspires to join a scientifically-involved research team at a large-scale chemical company to help advance the frontiers of research in a practical setting. If there is anything she can do to make human lives more sustainable, she would like to do it. She thinks better technology – by which ever higher standards of living may be won from fewer resources – is a big part of the answer.