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Ian T. McCrum is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at T¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. Prior to joining CCNY, he was an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Clarkson University. His research lies at the intersection of electrochemistry, surface science, and catalysis. The McCrum research group uses a combination of experiments on well-defined, atomically precise materials with detailed density functional theory (quantum chemistry) computational models to understand electrochemistry and catalysis at a fundamental, atomic level. Leveraging both experiments and modeling enables the identification of the driving forces for chemistry and catalysis at the buried electrode/electrolyte interface and of simple predictive descriptors of performance. Using this fundamental understanding, better performing materials can be predictively designed to enable low-cost renewable energy storage, sustainable chemical production, and (waste)water treatment. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and serves on the Early Career Editorial Board of the Journal of Catalysis.  

Professor McCrum received his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University in 2012 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 2017. He then was a postdoctoral fellow (Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND) at Leiden University in the Netherlands from 2017-2020.

Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands 2017-2020
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Chemistry

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, 2017

Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2012

Electrochemistry, Catalysis, Electrocatalysis, Quantum Chemical Modeling (DFT), Surface Science, Sustainable Chemical Production, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Energy Storage and Conversion