Stephen Maldonado received his BS in chemistry from the University of Iowa in 2001 and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow at The California Institute of Technology, Maldonado joined the faculty at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
He is a board member of the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry and received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2010. He was named a Sloan Research Fellow and received a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award in 2013.
Maldonado’s work on electrodeposition was recognized with a State of Michigan Governor’s Award in Green Chemistry in 2014. His group’s general research interests focus on electrochemical processes relevant to the fields of electronics and energy conversion/storage.