Please join the Mines Global Energy Future Initiative and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Dr. Christina Chang, Partner, Lowercarbon Capital, presenting a hybrid seminar titled Lab to Climate Venture: Solving Problems that Matter on Friday, January 26, 2024 at Colorado School of Mines.  Pizza will be provided.

A chemist, climate tech founder and CEO, Dr. Christina Chang has invented technologies across nanomaterials, catalysis for mining waste remediation, thin-film solar panels, solar water-splitting for H2 production, and sustainable steel.

She is a Partner at Lowercarbon Capital, the multi-billion dollar VC firm backing kickass companies that fix the planet profitably. Previously, Dr. Chang led federal funding for sustainable manufacturing research ARPA-E, including steel, chemicals, cement, rare earths, and carbon-negative building materials. Prior to ARPA-E, Dr. Chang was founder and CEO of the sustainable steel startup Abraze Engineering.

Dr. Chang has a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Harvard, an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures at Imperial College London, an MPhil in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and an A.B. in Chemistry from Princeton.