Mireille is an engineer, researcher, and author interested in everything carbon dioxide. She obtained her Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics from the university of British Columbia, her Masters in Materials Science from the University of Toronto, and her PhD in materials chemistry at the University of Toronto.
Her doctoral research focused on the catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to value-added chemicals using 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶 spectroscopy and computational chemistry. She is co-author of The Story of CO2: Big Ideas for a Small Molecule (University of Toronto Press, 2020), a general-audience science book that seeks to inspire readers with the latest carbon utilization technologies and explain how they fit within the broader context of carbon mitigation strategies. The book was a 2020 Forward Indies winner in the category of Ecology & Environment.
Mireille is currently a senior process development engineer at Heirloom, a San Francisco-based direct air capture start-up on a mission to capture 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide by 2035. You can follow her on twitter @MrayLikeHooray.
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