Dayanni Bhagwandin (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in the Chemistry and Biochemistry department at UCLA and a writer for CDLS’ student-run publication, Climate Currents. She is from Guyana and immigrated to New York where she lived in the Bronx.
Her research is relevant to solar cells and focuses on synthesizing devices and supercapacitors. Dayanni takes part in Climate Currents because she feels that it is important to share her scientific knowledge with her community and wants to give other people the chance to explore science in the same way that she has.