Tali Dotan, Ph.D.

Engineering at the living–electronic interface.

I combine electrochemistry, microelectronics, and microbiology to create sensing platforms and living materials for environmental monitoring, sustainable synthesis, and energy technologies.

Tali Dotan
MIT Chemical Engineering
Senior Postdoctoral Associate
Research vision

Three connected ways of building.

My work moves between predictive models, material and device fabrication, and the function of electroactive living systems.

Modeling

Multiscale transport and charge-transfer models that establish design rules for bioelectrochemical systems.

Fabrication

Microelectrodes, biohybrid interfaces, and microbial routes to functional carbon and metal nanomaterials.

Functionality

Living sensors and electrocatalytic materials that respond to real environmental and energy challenges.

Current direction

Electroactive living materials.

I develop systems in which biology does more than detect or respond: it fabricates, transports charge, and enables function. My research bridges microbial electron transfer with electrochemical device design, from plant and environmental sensing to microbial synthesis of catalytic nanomaterials.

Grounded in chemical engineering, materials science, physical electronics, and microbiology, I aim to make biological interfaces more predictable, manufacturable, and useful.

Dotan Lab research framework: modeling, fabrication, and functionality
A research framework linking modeling, fabrication, and functionality.
Get in touch

Let’s build useful bioelectronic systems.

I welcome conversations about research collaborations, speaking opportunities, and faculty positions.