A.-H. Alissa Park

Prof. A.-H. Alissa Park is the Lenfest Chair in Applied Climate Science of Earth and Environmental Engineering & Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. She is also the Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy. Her research focuses on sustainable energy and materials conversion pathways with emphasis on integrated Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technologies. Park group is also working on Direct Air Capture of CO₂ and Negative Emission Technologies including BioEnergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). Park received a number of professional awards and honors including the U.S. C3E Research Award (2018), PSRI Lectureship Award in Fluidization at American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2018), American Chemical Society Energy and Fuels Division - Emerging Researcher Award (2018), International Partnership Award for Young Scientists of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2018), Janette and Armen Avanessians Diversity Award at Columbia University (2017), American Chemical Society WCC Rising Star Award (2017), and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009). She continues to lead important global and national discussions on CCUS including the Mission Innovation Workshop (2017) and the National Petroleum Council CCUS Report (2019). She is a fellow of the American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.