Jennifer Wilcox
Jennifer Wilcox | |
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| Born | 14 July 1974 Litchfield, Maine, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Arizona MA in Physical Chemistry, PhD in Chemical Engineering 2004 |
| Alma mater | Wellesley College AB in Mathematics 1998 |
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| Fields | Chemical Engineering |
| Institutions | Worcester Polytechnic Institute Colorado School of Mines Stanford University |
| Website | www |
Jennifer Wilcox is an American chemical engineer and an expert on capturing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.[1] She is a James H. Manning Chaired Professor of Chemical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute[2] and a former Stanford University professor in energy resources engineering. Wilcox conducts research focused on reducing carbon dioxide and fossil fuels impact on the Earth's climate and finding alternative ways to generate green energy.[3]
Early life
Wilcox was born on July 14, 1974, and grew up in a rural part of central Maine in a house that was on 22 acres of land with a stream.[4] Her parents grew their own food in the summer and maintained a well on the property, exposing Wilcox to an independent living that shaped her appreciation for nature and to not take the Earth's resources for granted. Her father is a teacher and her mother is a social worker, who gave birth to Wilcox and her brother when she was under the age of 20. Her mother later decided to return to school, which provided a lot of empty space for Wilcox to explore, read, and develop independence in thinking.[4]
Education[5]
When Wilcox found out her high school, Oak Hill High School in Wales, ME, didn't offer AP calculus classes, she and three other students successfully convinced their principal to let them teach themselves calculus so they could take the AP exam. The four friends aspired to attend four-year colleges which would require four years of mathematics. Wilcox also asked her high school Latin teacher to continue teaching her Latin during her junior and senior years as an independent study, which the teacher happily assisted. The extra efforts paid off as Wilcox was accepted into the women's liberal arts college of Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA.
At Wellesley College, Wilcox took the entrance exam for calculus and was surprised to be placed into Calculus 2. She ended up majoring in mathematics and continuing her studies in pure mathematics at the University of Oregon. However, she quickly realized pure mathematics was not her calling and decided to move to Tucson, Arizona.
After getting bored waiting tables at restaurants to earn extra cash, Wilcox met up with a math professor at the University of Arizona who introduced her to the chair of the graduate committee in chemical engineering. She enrolled in the Ph.D. program in chemical engineering and received both her masters and Ph.D. in four years while continuing to wait tables and teach at a community college.
Career and research
After receiving her Ph.D. in 2004, Wilcox worked as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic from 2004 to 2008.[citation needed] She then took on the position of Assistant Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University from 2008 to 2016.[citation needed] In 2016, Wilcox became an Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, assuming the position of the Interim Department Head in 2017.[citation needed] In 2018, she left Mines to assume the James H. Manning Chaired Professorship of Chemical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.[6]
Wilcox served on a number of committees including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society. She receives funding for her research through the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy and the private sector.
She spoke at the April 2018 TED talk.[7]
Awards and honors
Wilcox represented the National Science Foundation as a "New Face of Engineering for 2006", where she was featured in USA Today.[3]She also won the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Young Investigator Award,[3] the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award,[3] the Air & Waste Management Association Stern Award.[3]
Memberships
She was selected as a member of the second cohort of the Department of Energy's Oppenheimer Energy Sciences Leadership Group.[3]
Jennifer Wilcox is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, the North American Membrane Society, and the Ninety-Nines (the international organization of women pilots).[3]
Publications
Wilcox is the first author to publish a textbook on carbon capture.[3] Her book, Carbon Capture published in March 2012, discusses the fundamental chemical concepts ranging from thermodynamics, combustion, kinetics, mass transfer, material properties, and the relationship between the chemistry and process of carbon capture technologies.
Wilcox also authored or co-authored 182 papers and publications.[8] Her top three cited papers include the "Methane leaks from North American natural gas systems", "Molecular simulation of methane adsorption in micro-and mesoporous carbons with applications to coal and gas shale systems", and "Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward".
References
- ^ "Greenhouse gases must be scrubbed from the air, Greenhouse gases must be scrubbed from the air". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2020-01-20 – via The Economist.
- ^ "jlwilcox". WPI. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Internationally Renowned Expert on Capturing and Storing Carbon Dioxide and Other Fossil Fuel Pollutants Is Named WPI's New Manning Professor". WPI. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
- ^ a b "Synthetic Forests: A Possible Way To Remove CO2 From The Air". TanyaPrive.
- ^ "Synthetic Forests: A Possible Way To Remove CO2 From The Air". Tanya Privé. 2019-10-10. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ https://chemeng.mines.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2019/11/CBEN-History-Appendix-II.pdf
- ^ Wilcox, Jennifer, A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere – via www.ted.com
- ^ "Jennifer Wilcox - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.it. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
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