Emily Warren (scientist)
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Emily Lowell Warren | |
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| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology Cornell University University of Cambridge |
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| Institutions | National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| Thesis | Silicon Microwire Arrays for Photoelectrochemical and Photovoltaic Applications (2013) |
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Emily Warren is an American chemical engineer who is a staff scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Her research considers high efficiency crystalline photovoltaics.
Warren became interested in science as a child. At elementary school, she campaigned to save the rainforest.[1] Warren was an undergraduate student at Cornell University, where she studied chemical engineering and became aware of the energy industry.[1][2] She travelled to Nigeria for a course on sustainable development.[1] She was a graduate student at California Institute of Technology. Her research considered the growth of silicon microwire arrays using vapor–liquid–solid methods. These strategies could be used to produce high aspect ratio structures that are efficient in photovoltaics[3] and have a high surface area for use in catalysis and as electrodes in water splitting.[4][5] After earning her doctorate, she briefly considered working in industry, but instead joined the Colorado School of Mines to work on solar thermoelectric generator projects.[6]
