Aamani Ponnekanti

Postdocs and Students

Aamani is a second year PhD student in the Chemical Engineering department working under Dan Steingart. Her research focuses on studying the failure mechanisms of high energy density, low cost Si anodes, with a particular focus on utilizing ultrasound acoustic transmission to gain operando insight into mechanical phenomena. Prior to Columbia, Aamani graduated from the University of Southern California in 2022 with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering.