Education

• University of Notre Dame, IN, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, PhD, 2012
• University of Notre Dame, IN, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, MS, 2010
• University of South Carolina, SC, Chemical Engineering, BS, 2007

Research

Dr. Meekins has a background in photovoltaics, solar fuel conversion, and catalysis. As a member of the Chemical Engineering department at the University of South Carolina, his research interests include the synthesis of new candidate photovoltaic materials, photocatalytic splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen, remediation of carbon dioxide to high-value products via solar-assisted pathways, and single-particle reaction kinetics and catalysis to aid fundamental understanding of catalytic processes.

Selected Publications

• Olusegun Felix, Kris Likit-anurak, Kanchit Ngamsanroaj, Sirivatch Shimpalee, Benjamin Meekins*. A comparative techno-economic analysis of aqueous and anhydrous HCl electrolysis processes. J. of Hydrogen Energy. 2025, 143, 15-24.
• Kris Likit-anurak, Hunter R. Tell, Ishwor Karki, Ben I. Howard, Brian C. Benicewicz, Sirivatch Shimpalee*, Benjamin H. Meekins*. Development of an Experimentally Validated Computational Fluid Dynamics Model for an Anhydrous HCl Electrolyzer. Electrochem. Soc. 2024, 171(5), 054512.
• Kris Likit-anurak, Ishwor Karki, Ben I Howard, Laura Murdock, Nikolai Mukhin, Jamie Brannon, Aubrey Hepstall, Bridgett Young, Sirivatch Shimpalee, Brian Benicewicz, Benjamin Meekins*. Polybenzimidazole Membranes as Nafion Replacement in Aqueous HCl Electrolyzers. ACS Appl. Ener. Mat. 2023, 6(10), 5429-5434.
• Kris Likit-Anurak, Rembert White, Laura Murdock, Brian Benicewicz, Sirivatch Shimpalee, Benjamin Meekins*. Fully Anhydrous HCl Electrolysis Using Polybenzimidazole Membranes. J. of Hydrogen Energy. 2022, 47(63), 26859-26864.
• Héctor R. Colón-Mercado, Scott A. Mauger, Maximilian B. Gorensek, Cy H. Fujimoto, Aaron A. Lando, Prabhu Ganesan, Benjamin H. Meekins, Noah D. Meeks. Electrode optimization for efficient hydrogen production using an SO₂-depolarized electrolysis cell. Int. J. of Hydrogen Energy. 2022, 47(31), 14180-14185.