Kang Rui Garrick Lim
Incoming Nanyang Assistant Professor (2027), School of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
TBC, ISCE2, A*STAR
Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University (2025-2027; advisors: Prof. Matteo Cargnello and Prof. Thomas Jaramillo)
Ph.D. and M.A. in Chemistry, Harvard University (2020-2025; advisor: Prof. Joanna Aizenberg), supported by the A*STAR National Science Scholarship
B.Sc. in Chemistry, National University of Singapore (2015-2019), supported by the A*STAR Undergraduate Scholarship
Garrick was born and raised in Singapore. At NTU, his research interest is to leverage on colloidal design of catalytic architectures–their active sites and immediate environment–to bridge the materials gap in catalyst design for low carbon energy research.
Prior to his independent research career, Garrick was a Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (2025-2027), where he worked on colloidal catalyst design for CO2 conversion as part of the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis. During his PhD at Harvard (2020-2025), he integrated colloidal templating and self-assembly concepts into catalyst design to design 3D macroporous inverse opal structures bearing partially embedded dilute alloy nanoparticles to serve as a model thermocatalytic platform. At NUS and IMRE A*STAR in Singapore (2018-2020), he synthesized MXene nanohybrids for electrocatalysis (under Dr. Zhi Wei Seh) and designed core-shell quantum dots for light harvesting (under Prof. Zhi-Kuang Tan).
