Climate tech’s newest unicorn makes chemicals from sugar, not fossil fuels

Former MITEI postdoc Gasim Ibrahim shifted his academic work on low-carbon energy solutions towards industry after seeing how war had disrupted his home country of Sudan. "Switching to industry was the most practical way to adapt to our new reality[...] The war didn’t end my scientific journey; it simply reshaped the path I took."

MITEI Energy Scholar Santosh Singh studied subsurface species in metals to enable the design of efficient catalytic materials for energy production.