YAMINI KUMARAN, Ph.D. · SCIENTIST / THINKER / MUSIC LOVER
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER · UC BERKELEY
INTERFACES · ELECTRONS · 2D MATERIALS
PERSONAL UNIVERSE
INTEGRATE.
I study interfaces in matter and follow curiosity wherever it leads.
01 · MATTER
02 · MIND
03 · RESONANCE
04 · MEMORY
00 / ABOUT THE SYSTEM
I like questions that move across scales.
From the chemistry of an electrochemical interface to the structure of an idea, I am drawn to places where different worlds meet.
My research spans electrochemistry, nanoscale materials and two-dimensional systems. Outside the lab, philosophy, music, books, travel and people shape how I understand the same world from different directions.
01 / MATTER
Research.
I study what happens at interfaces. From electrocatalytic surfaces to atomically thin materials, I am interested in how local environments influence electron transfer.
CURRENT · UC BERKELEY / 01
Electron transfer in 2D materials
Graphene, h-BN, nanoscale electrochemistry, Raman spectroscopy and scanning probe methods.
ENERGY / 02
Electrochemical energy
Nanostructured electrodes, water electrolysis and degradation at catalytic interfaces.
PUBLICATIONS / 03
Publications
Research spanning electrochemistry, water electrolysis, materials characterization and nanoscale interfaces.
SECCM
AFM / TFM
RAMAN
ELECTROCHEMISTRY
XPS
RBS / NRA
2D MATERIALS
02 / MIND
Thought.
Questions bigger than the apparatus. Philosophy gives me a language for questions that experiments alone cannot close.
What can we know?
Where does meaning come from?
What makes an explanation satisfying?
What is real?
03 / RESONANCE
Music.
Not every pattern needs to be measured. Music can remain the unfinished, changing room of the site.
“Some things I understand through experiments. Some only through sound.”
A space for music, performance, listening, practice and the pieces that stay with me — not as a résumé item, but as another way of paying attention.
04 / MEMORY
Life.
People. Places. Seasons. The environments and communities around me are part of how the work — and the person — changes.
JOURNEY
PEOPLE
MEMORY
05 / WHERE IT MEETS
CONFLUENCE.
Science shapes how I question. Philosophy changes the questions. Music changes how I listen. People and places change the person asking them.