David is a Ph.D student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.  He is being co-advised by Prof. Cynthia Friend and Prof. Boris Kozinsky. His research area is computational catalysis, with a focus on  surface restructuring in Pd/Ag catalysts for selective hydrogenation. Before coming to Harvard, he pursued B.A. Chemistry and B.S.E. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.