Bhumi obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics from the Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University (MKBU), India. The university awarded her the Lt. Shri Dr. Rohit Bhatt Gold Medal and the Dr. R. V. Mehta Prize for securing first rank in her master’s program. She was subsequently awarded the DST-INSPIRE Fellowship to pursue her doctoral research.
In 2022, she obtained her Ph.D. in Physics from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India, under the supervision of Prof. Prafulla K. Jha. Her doctoral work employed first-principles DFT calculations to elucidate the structure–activity–selectivity relationships of transition-metal nanoclusters and alloys in heterogeneous catalysis.
Bhumi is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä (JYU), Finland.
She has been working on the MEMCAT project since 2024 with Prof. Karoliina Honkala’s group. Her research focuses on computational modeling of methanol catalysts and on identifying key descriptors governing CO2 conversion and catalyst selectivity under experimentally relevant conditions.
As part of this project, she collaborates with the experimental group at the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) of the Max Planck Society (Germany) to optimize catalyst performance by integrating computational insights with experimental results.
Previously, she contributed to the Synjet project as a postdoc in the same group at JYU, where her work focused on higher hydrocarbon and fatty alcohol synthesis over oxide and metal catalysts. She has over 15 publications in peer-reviewed international journals.
Her research interests include computational catalysis, surface science, and the rational design of catalytic materials for sustainable chemical transformations