Evelyn Wang appointed as director of US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

Longtime collaborator with the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab and the head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering was nominated by President Biden to lead ARPA-E’s mission to support critical energy research. With J-WAFS, Professor Wang developed an atmospheric water harvesting solution in remote and water-stressed areas, and a low-cost solution for extending food shelf-life.

EXCERPT FROM THE ARTICLE
SOURCE
MIT News
DATE PUBLISHED
22
December
2022
RELATED PROGRAMME
RELATED PEOPLE