Research Interests

• Capacitive deionization
• Colloidal nanocrystal materials science
• Electrochemical modeling
• Photovoltaic device modeling
• Semiconductor device physics

Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2015

B.S., Physics and Materials Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2010

• Hawks, S. A.; Finck, B. Y.; Schwartz, B. J., Phys. Rev. Appl. 2015, 3, 044014. Scholes, D. T.; Hawks, S. A.; Yee, P. Y.; Wu, H.; Lindemuth, J. R.; Tolbert, S. H.; Schwartz, B. J., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2015, 6, 4786-4793.
• Zhang, G.; Hawks, S. A.; Ngo, C.; Schelhas, L. T.; Scholes, D. T.; Kang, H.; Aguirre, J. C.; Tolbert, S. H.; Schwartz, B. J., ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2015, 7, 25247-25258.
• Aguirre, J. C.; Hawks, S. A.; Ferreira, A. S.; Yee, P.; Subramaniyan, S.; Jenekhe, S. A.; Tolbert, S.H.; Schwartz, B. J., Adv. Energy Mater. 2015, 5, 1402020.
• Hawks, S. A.; Abbas, A. S.; Alivisatos, A. P.; Photovolt. Spec. Conf. (PVSC) IEEE 43rd, 2016, 3-7.

• DOE EERE Postdoctoral Research Award
• NSF Materials Creation Training Program (MCTP) Fellowship