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EDITORIAL BOARD AND SOCIETY MEMBER

  • Editorial Board member of the Scientific Reports: Nature Publishing Group            (March 2014-Present)

  • Member of The American Chemical Society                                                                  (March 2014-Present)

  • Member of The Electrochemical Society                                               (September 2013-September 2014)

  • Member of The American Physical Society                                                (November 2007-February 2013)

REVIEWER

  • Energy & Environmental Science 

  • Scientific Reports 

  • Journal of The Electrochemical Society

  • Journals of Materials Chemistry A 

  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 

  • Chemical Physics Letters 

  • Applied Surface Science 

  • Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

  • Solid State Communications 

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry

FUNDING SOURCES
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PUBLICATIONS
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Multivalent Mg Batteries

February 17, 2016

Interface-Induced Renormalization of Electrolyte Energy Levels in Magnesium Batteries

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N. Kumar, D. J. Siegel

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Li-O2 Batteries - DMSO

May 6, 2015

The DMSO-Li2O2 Interface in the Rechargeable Li-O2 Battery Cathode: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on Stability

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M. Schroeder, N. Kumar, A. J. Pearse, C. Liu, S. B. Lee, G. W. Rubloff, K. Leung, M. Noked

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Li-O2 Batteries - Ethers

April 13, 2015

Surface-Mediated Solvent Decomposition in Li-air Batteries: Impact of Peroxide and Superoxide Surface Terminations

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N. Kumar, M. Radin, B. Wood, T. Ogitsu and D. J. Siegel

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ReaxFF: Li-S Batteries

December 16, 2014

ReaxFF molecular dynamics simulations on lithiated sulfur cathode materials

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M. Islam, A. Ostadhossein, O. Borodin, A. T. Yeates, W. W. Tipton, R. G. Hennig, N. Kumar and A. C. T. van Duin

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TiO2/Water Interface

May 2, 2014

Vibrational Density of States of Strongly H-Bonded Interfacial Water: Insights from Inelastic Neutron Scattering and Theory

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H. Wang, M. DelloStritto, N. Kumar, P. R. C. Kent, A. Kolesnikov, J. Kubicki, D. J. Wesolowski and J. Sofo

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Li-ion Batteries

March 26, 2014

Crystal Surface and State of Charge Dependencies of Electrolyte Decomposition on LiMn2O4 Cathode  (invited in JES Focus Issue on Mathematical Modeling of Electrochemical Systems at Multiple Scales)

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N. Kumar, K. Leung and D. J. Siegel

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TiO2/Water Interface: DFT+U

October 16, 2013

Modeling Water Adsorption on Rutile (110) using van der Waals Density Functional and DFT+U Methods

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N. Kumar, P. Kent, D. J. Wesolowski and J. Kubicki

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ReaxFF: TiO2/Water

April 12, 2025

Development of a ReaxFF Reactive Force Field for Titanium Dioxide/Water Systems

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S. Kim, N. Kumar, P. Persson, J. O. Sofo, A. van Duin and J. Kubicki

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TiO2/Water Interface: Water dissociation

April 5, 2012

Comment on “Structure and dynamics of liquid water on rutile TiO2(110)”

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D. J. Wesolowski, J. O. Sofo, A. V. Bandura, Z. Zhang, E. Mamontov, M. Předota, N. Kumar, J. D. Kubicki, P. R. C. Kent, L. Vlcek, M. L. Machesky, P. A. Fenter, P. T. Cummings, L. M. Anovitz, A. A. Skelton, and J. Rosenqvist

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TiO2 vs. SnO2: Faster Water Splitting and Proton Dynamics

January 26, 2011

Faster proton transfer dynamics of water on SnO2 compared to TiO2

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N. Kumar, P. Kent, A. Bandura, J. Kubicki, D. Wesolowski, D. Cole, and J. Sofo

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TiO2/Water Interface

July 8, 2009

Hydrogen Bonds and Vibrations of Water on (110) Rutile

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N. Kumar, S. Neogi, P. Kent, A. Bandura, J. Kubicki, D. Cole, D. Wesolowski and J. Sofo

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TiO2(110)/Water: MUSIC Model

October 9, 2008

Surface Protonation at the Rutile (110) Interface: Explicit Incorporation of Solvation Structure within the Revised MUSIC Model Framework

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M. Machesky, M. Predota, D. Wesolowski, L. Vlcek, P. Cummings, J. Rosenqvist, M. Ridley, J. Kubicki, A. Bandura, N. Kumar and J. Sofo

Ph.D. in Physics
Minor in Computational Science

May 2012

Pennsylvania State University, University Park (PA)
GPA: 3.94/4.00

M. Sc. in Physics

August 2016

IIT Bombay, Mumbai (India)
CPI: 9.6/10.0,
Department Rank 1, Institute Silver Medal

B. Sc. in Physics

April 2004

St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, New Delhi (India)

EDUCATION

Visiting Scholar

January 2017 - Present

Colorado School of Mines (CO)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

January 2015 - Present

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

January 2013 - January 2015

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
and
Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque (NM)

Postdoctoral Scholar

May 2012 - December 2012

Pennsylvania State University, University Park (PA)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
                   CURRICULUM VITAE
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