Tanmay Kulkarni is a Senior R&D Scientist at Solidec, specializing in ionic separations and electrochemical process development. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Penn State University, where he developed the bipolar membrane capacitive deionization technology with applications in critical mineral recovery, water treatment, and lithium brine processing. He has 4 years of industry experience in electrolyzer research, electrochemical process scale-up, and hydrocarbon process modeling. Tanmay has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications in the electrochemical separations and holds a patent in direct lithium extraction technology.