Rabia Ayub

The area of my research interests within biorefinery mainly focused on lignin and other residual side-streams. My aim is to develop sustainable and green (electro)chemical methods to produce high-value chemicals and materials for a sustainable industry and society. I start from the fundamental research at the lab scale, optimize certain method and develop a process. Scaling-up is performed thereafter to produce material in bulk quantities. Obtained material is then utilized in various applications, energy storage is one such example.
Besides this I have strong interest in theoretical and physical organic chemistry. My main goal is to understand electronic structure, to predict reaction mechanism, and to design molecules for organic and molecular electronics applications.
I developed expertise to work on very small scale (microgram) to large scale (pilot scale). Similarly, I can work on small molecules (2π-electrons) to very large molecules ranging from macrocycles to polymers (lignin).

Keywords: Organic photochemistry, organic electrochemistry, organic synthesis, electrochemical depolymerization, lignin, residual side-streams, CO2 (CCU), sustainability, energy storage materials, organic electronics, computational organic chemistry, DFT, Quantum chemical calculations, electronic structure, reaction mechanism, excited states, aromaticity.