Ask Us Anything – Alissa Park
Alissa Park is the Lenfest Earth Institute Professor of Climate Change in the Departments of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Columbia, as well as the department chair of Earth and Environmental Engineering, and the director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy. In her work she advances the fundamental understanding of CO2 interactions with engineered and natural materials and develops technologies for sustainable energy and material conversion pathways with emphasis on carbon capture, utilization and storage.
This series showcases our faculty on lab life and the big picture implications beyond. Whether building predictive climate models, thin-film electronics, or sustainable concrete, our engineers are not only making an impact in their fields — they are changing the world at large.