SEITZ LAB MISSION: Research in the Seitz Lab focuses on fundamental understanding of catalytic reactions and materials using insights from electrochemistry and spectroscopy towards the development of electrocatalytic materials and systems with enhanced activity, selectivity, and stability. Our research lies at the interface of chemical engineering, materials science, and physics with the goal of improving the efficiency and technological viability of clean energy and chemical conversion processes.

Members of the Seitz Lab believe that catalysis can help pave the way to a more sustainable future by pairing renewable energy sources with efficient catalytic conversion processes to produce fuels and chemicals, and to mitigate waste streams.

Electrochemical catalysts enable a wide array of reactions, such as those illustrated below:

SEITZ LAB VALUES: We strive daily to ensure that everyone’s time in this group is enjoyable, intellectually stimulating, and productive. To accomplish these group goals and to be successful in this group, we value and ask that you commit to do the following:

Prioritize safety and research integrity
Be inquisitive and ask questions
Be thorough
Love and appreciate science
Develop autonomy
Promote cooperation, collaboration, camaraderie, and teamwork

The Seitz lab is proud to share that we are Green Labs Certified through Northwestern’s sustainNU Green Labs Program and that we are part of a community of green leaders across Northwestern’s campuses. This means that PI Linsey Seitz and all lab members have formed and maintain a Green Lab Team that carefully reviews all lab processes to increase research efficiency, conserve resources (such as energy, water, and materials), reduce costs, and improve lab member wellbeing. Information on lab sustainability practices is posted in the lab, described in the lab handbook, and included in orientation training for all members of the lab. With these efforts, the PI and the Seitz Green Lab Team foster a culture of sustainability that matches our technical research efforts in these areas.