Aisulu Aitbekova

Aisulu Aitbekova is an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on developing catalytic processes to make fuels and chemicals. Specifically, her group is interested in coupling light and heat to drive chemical reactions in new and efficient ways. Aitbekova's experience extends from developing materials at the nanoscale, to controlling the environment around these materials at the microscale, to developing processes at the macroscale.

Aitbekova received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Stanford University, her master's degree in chemical engineering practice from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Most recently, she was a Kavli Nanoscience Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology.