Sameer Patwardhan is a postdoctoral scholar in the Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center at Northwestern University under George C. Schatz. He is involved in experimental and computational studies of organo-metal halide perovskites and metal-organic frameworks for photovoltaic and photochemical device applications. He completed his undergraduate studies in physical chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.