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Oliver Rodríguez

Oliver Rodríguez

Higher scientist

Oliver is a Higher Scientist working in theory, numerical simulations, data analysis and software development for electrochemical devices and processes, specifically, those related to energy conversion and storage, electroanalysis, and corrosion.

Areas of interest

Oliver’s ultimate interest is to turn electrochemistry into data science. He believes that experiments and data analysis need to be automated to study current challenging problems. He also believes that this is opening a new field: digital electrochemistry, where data (experimental, simulated or analytical) is at the centre. He is also interested in instrumentation and in the use of algorithms for data manipulation and response prediction to inform live experiments with a closed-loop approach. He currently works on the modelling of electrolysers to optimise high-cost material usage, the modelling of the local generation of electrochemical products during corrosion processes, and data analysis and software development for battery failure prediction.

Biography 

Oliver obtained his BSc in Engineering Physics working with the automated analysis of Atomic Force Microscopy data with Prof. Jorge Luis Menchaca (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, 2012) and his MSc in Manufacturing Systems with Prof. Marcelo Videa (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, 2015) synthesizing TiO2 nanotubes with electrochemistry. At Monterrey, he started working in software development and automation of electrochemical experiments and data analysis. He then pursued a PhD in Electrochemistry supervised by Prof. Guy Denuault (University of Southampton, UK, 2019). There, he worked on the development of methodologies to detect oxygen adsorbed species during the oxygen reduction reaction at the millisecond and micrometre scales with SECM. In 2021 he started working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US, with Prof. Joaquin Rodríguez-López on electrochemical modelling, software development and instrument control. He joined NPL in February 2023, leading the theory, simulation, data analysis and software development efforts of the Electrochemistry group.

Selected Publications

  1. Hard potato: A python library to control commercial potentiostats and to automate electrochemical experiments, O. Rodríguez, M. A. Pence, J. Rodriguez-Lopez. Anal. Chem. 95, 4840-4845 (2023)
  2. Electrochemical imaging of interfaces in Energy Storage via Scanning Probe Methods: techniques, applications, and prospects. A. Mishra, D. Sarbapalli, O. Rodríguez, J. Rodríguez-López. Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry. 16, 93-115 (2023).
  3. Automated measurement of electrogenerated redox species degradation using multiplexed interdigitated electrode arrays, M. A. Pence, O. Rodríguez, N. G. Lukhanin, C. M. Schroeder, J. Rodríguez-López. ACS Meas. Sci. Au. 3, 62-72 (2022)
  4. The influence of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on Pt oxide electrochemistry, O. Rodríguez, G. Denuault, ChemElectroChem 8, 3525-3532 (2021)
  5. Soft Potato: an open-source electrochemical simulator and toolkit, O. Rodríguez, ChemRxiv. DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-4bs3w (2022)

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