Matteo Poma
Graduate Student

Education:

BS, Materials Science and Engineering, Brown University, 2022

Awards

Dean’s Fellowship for Excellence, University of Colorado Boulder, 2023

Research and Personal Interests

My research interests surround nanomaterial applications for climate-change addressing technologies, specifically through photovoltaics. During my undergrad, I was a research assistant in Prof. Nitin Padture’s research group, where I led a perovskite cell encapsulation project to prepare our devices to be sent to space on a student-built cube-sat.

Prior to arriving at CU Boulder, I also worked as a research assistant in Prof. Yue Qi’s computational research group at Brown where I led a sub-project on modelling random structures for a novel solid state battery electrolyte. Deep down I am an experimentalist, but I have a newfound curiosity for how I can use my computational skills to complement my research, streamline processes, and generally provide a different train of thought for projects in the McGehee Group.

Outside of the lab I love almost anything outdoors— whether in the mountains or in the ocean. More than anything, I enjoy skiing, running, cooking, and slowly restoring my ’72 Honda CB175.