Roby Gauthier, Ph.D.

Welcome to my website! I am a research scientist in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University.

I am a proud French-Canadian

I obtained my Ph.D. at Dalhousie University, where I worked alongside Jeff Dahn. During this work, I studied the impact of new electrolyte additives and different state of charge range on the cycling performance and properties of lithium cells. I also learned the basics of density functional theory (DFT) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Prior to that, I got my M.Sc. at Université de Moncton on the theoretical modeling of the Casimir effect.

After my Ph.D., I joined the Obrovac Research Group as a research scientist, where I studied anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. That’s where I learned additional experimental techniques such as XRD and SEM.

After that, I joined the Venkat Viswanathan’s Electrochemical Energy Group (was at CMU, now at the University of Michigan) and later the Jay Whitacre Research Group also at CMU, as a post-doctoral fellow where I developed nuclear magnetic resonance, electrochemical, and computational methods for Lithium-ion cell monitoring, mitigation, and prediction.

I am currently a research scientist at the Laboratory for Transport Phenomena in Energy Systems working with Shawn Litster to improve performance of fuel cells.

Aside from research, I am also passionate about all fields of science, science communication, and the arts.