Speaker Information
Dr. Pornsawan Sikam
Invited Speaker
Office of Research Administration, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Pornsawan Sikam is a researcher at Chiang Mai University, Thailand since 2021. She is working based on computational and experimental approaches. Her expertise is the study on the electrochemical catalysts for conversion carbon dioxide into valuable products via CO2 reduction reaction, the gas adsorption, the visible-light-sensitive photocatalysts, the thermoelectric devices and the magnetic materials. She has been trying to improve electronic, optical, magnetic and thermoelectric properties of the cheap semiconductors to enhance their efficiency in different applications. She achieved explaining the reaction specific and mechanism using oxidation states of transition metals. She has employed the band structures supposing the potential candidate for the visible-light-sensitive photocatalysts, N-doped ZnO/ ZnO heterojunction. Furthermore, she has utilized theoretical results explaining the experiment, leading to understanding the magnetism in 3d-atom doping in non-magnetic semiconductors. Some of her future aims are to design the excellent catalysts for applications in batteries and to study the phonon calculation for deep understanding in the thermoelectric properties.
Pornsawan Sikam has received her PhD from Khon Kaen University, Thailand and has worked previously as a postdoctoral researcher at National Nanotechnology Center, National Science and Technology Development Agency (NANOTEC, NSTDA), Thailand
