Kara Fong

Kara joined CCE as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering in June 2025. She was previously a Schmidt Science Fellow and Trinity College Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where she worked with Prof. Angelos Michaelides and Prof. Clare Grey. She earned her PhD in 2022 from the University of California, Berkeley, where she developed theory for ion transport in Li-ion batteries.

Kara's research group aims to integrate theory and simulation across length scales to study electrochemical systems for sustainable energy storage and water treatment. Outside of work, Kara is an avid birdwatcher.