Jennifer Wilcox

Wilcox was born on July 5, 1976, and grew up in a rural part of central Maine in a house that was on 22 acres of land with a stream.{{cite web|url=https://tanyaprive.com/jennifer-wilcox/|title=Synthetic Forests: A Possible Way To Remove CO2 From The Air|website=TanyaPrive|date=10 October 2019 }} Her parents grew their own food in the summer and maintained a well on the property, exposing Wilcox to an independent living that shaped her appreciation for nature and to not take the Earth's resources for granted.

When Wilcox found out her high school, Oak Hill High School in Wales, ME, didn't offer AP calculus classes, she and three other students successfully convinced their principal to let them teach themselves calculus so they could take the AP exam. The four friends aspired to attend four-year colleges which would require four years of mathematics. Wilcox also asked her high school Latin teacher to continue teaching her Latin during her junior and senior years as an independent study, which the teacher happily assisted. The extra efforts paid off as Wilcox was accepted into the women's liberal arts college of Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA.

She enrolled in the Ph.D. program in chemical engineering at the University of Arizona and received both her master's and Ph.D. in four years while continuing to wait tables and teach at a community college.

After receiving her Ph.D. in 2004, Wilcox worked as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic from 2004 to 2008. She then took on the position of Assistant Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University from 2008 to 2016. In 2016, Wilcox became an Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, assuming the position of the Interim Department Head in 2017. In 2018, she left Mines to assume the James H. Manning Chaired Professorship of Chemical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.[https://chemeng.mines.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2019/11/CBEN-History-Appendix-II.pdf Appendix II, Faculty Curriculum Vitae.] Colorado School of Mines, Retrieved April 24, 2022. In 2020, she left Worcester Polytechnic Institute to join the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department and Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Wilcox served on a number of committees including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society. She receives funding for her research through the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy and the private sector.

She spoke at the April 2018 TED talk{{citation|first1=Jennifer|last1=Wilcox|title=A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere|date=5 July 2018 |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_wilcox_a_new_way_to_remove_co2_from_the_atmosphere|via=www.ted.com}} about her research on Direct Air Capture.{{Cite web|title=Internationally Renowned Expert on Capturing and Storing Carbon Dioxide and Other Fossil Fuel Pollutants Is Named WPI's New Manning Professor|url=https://www.wpi.edu/news/internationally-renowned-expert-capturing-and-storing-carbon-dioxide-and-other-fossil-fuel|access-date=2021-03-31|website=WPI|date=August 2018 |language=en}}

In 2024, Wilcox took on the position of Chief Scientist at Isometric, a carbon registry.{{Cite news |last=Pontecorvo |first=Emily |title=Jennifer Wilcox on Building the First U.S. Carbon Removal Office |work=Heatmap |url=https://heatmap.news/climate/jennifer-wilcox-carbon-removal |access-date=11 June 2024}}

Wilcox represented the National Science Foundation as a "New Face of Engineering for 2006", where she was featured in USA Today.{{Cite web|title=Internationally Renowned Expert on Capturing and Storing Carbon Dioxide and Other Fossil Fuel Pollutants Is Named WPI's New Manning Professor|url=https://www.wpi.edu/news/internationally-renowned-expert-capturing-and-storing-carbon-dioxide-and-other-fossil-fuel|access-date=2020-01-13|website=WPI|date=August 2018 |language=en}} She also won the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Young Investigator Award, the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, and the Air & Waste Management Association{{Cite web|title=Air & Waste Management Association|url=https://www.awma.org/|access-date=2021-09-22|website=www.awma.org}} Stern Award.{{Cite web|title=A&WMA - Arthur C. Stern Award for Distinguished Paper|url=https://www.awma.org/content.asp?contentid=202|access-date=2021-09-22|website=www.awma.org|language=en}} In 2023, she was named one of the Time 100 Climate.https://time.com/collection/time100-climate/6333059/jennifer-wilcox/ In 2024 she was named to the Grist 50.https://grist.org/fix/grist-50/2024/#jennifer-wilcox

She was selected as a member of the second cohort of the Department of Energy's Oppenheimer Energy Sciences Leadership Group.

Wilcox is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, the North American Membrane Society, and the Ninety-Nines (the international organization of women pilots).

She is a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute.{{Cite web|title=Department of Energy Announces New Senior Leaders|url=https://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-announces-new-senior-leaders|access-date=2021-04-22|website=Energy.gov|language=en}}

Wilcox is the first author to publish a textbook on carbon capture. Her book, Carbon Capture published in March 2012, discusses the fundamental chemical concepts ranging from thermodynamics, combustion, kinetics, mass transfer, material properties, and the relationship between the chemistry and process of carbon capture technologies.

{{As of|2020|01}}, Wilcox also authored or co-authored 182 papers and publications.{{cite web|accessdate=2020-01-20|title=Jennifer Wilcox - Google Scholar Citations|url=https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=eLflQgQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao|website=scholar.google.it}} Her top three cited papers include, in order: "Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward",{{Cite journal|last1=Bui|first1=Mai|last2=S. Adjiman|first2=Claire|last3=Bardow|first3=André|last4=J. Anthony|first4=Edward|last5=Boston|first5=Andy|last6=Brown|first6=Solomon|last7=S. Fennell|first7=Paul|last8=Fuss|first8=Sabine|last9=Galindo|first9=Amparo|last10=A. Hackett|first10=Leigh|last11=P. Hallett|first11=Jason|date=2018|title=Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward|journal=Energy & Environmental Science|language=en|volume=11|issue=5|pages=1062–1176|doi=10.1039/C7EE02342A|doi-access=free|hdl=10044/1/55714|hdl-access=free}} " Methane leaks from North American natural gas systems ",{{Cite journal|title=Methane leaks from North American natural gas systems|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=eLflQgQAAAAJ&citation_for_view=eLflQgQAAAAJ:AXPGKjj_ei8C|access-date=2022-02-02|journal=Science| date=2014 | doi=10.1126/science.1247045 | last1=Brandt | first1=A. R. | last2=Heath | first2=G. A. | last3=Kort | first3=E. A. | last4=O'Sullivan | first4=F. | last5=Pétron | first5=G. | last6=Jordaan | first6=S. M. | last7=Tans | first7=P. | last8=Wilcox | first8=J. | last9=Gopstein | first9=A. M. | last10=Arent | first10=D. | last11=Wofsy | first11=S. | last12=Brown | first12=N. J. | last13=Bradley | first13=R. | last14=Stucky | first14=G. D. | last15=Eardley | first15=D. | last16=Harriss | first16=R. | volume=343 | issue=6172 | pages=733–735 | pmid=24531957 | bibcode=2014Sci...343..733B | url-access=subscription }} and " Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects"{{Cite journal|language=en|doi=10.1088/1748-9326/aabf9f|title=Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects |year=2018 |last1=Fuss |first1=Sabine |last2=Lamb |first2=William F. |last3=Callaghan |first3=Max W. |last4=Hilaire |first4=Jérôme |last5=Creutzig |first5=Felix |last6=Amann |first6=Thorben |last7=Beringer |first7=Tim |last8=De Oliveira Garcia |first8=Wagner |last9=Hartmann |first9=Jens |last10=Khanna |first10=Tarun |last11=Luderer |first11=Gunnar |last12=Nemet |first12=Gregory F. |last13=Rogelj |first13=Joeri |last14=Smith |first14=Pete |last15=Vicente |first15=José Luis Vicente |last16=Wilcox |first16=Jennifer |last17=Del Mar Zamora Dominguez |first17=Maria |last18=Minx |first18=Jan C. |journal=Environmental Research Letters |volume=13 |issue=6 |page=063002 |bibcode=2018ERL....13f3002F |s2cid=55115841 |doi-access=free |hdl=10044/1/78139 |hdl-access=free }}

She was one of the primary authors and a co-editor of the Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer.{{Cite web|date=2021-01-27|title=Jennifer Wilcox Contributes to Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer|url=https://indiaeducationdiary.in/jennifer-wilcox-contributes-to-carbon-dioxide-removal-primer/|access-date=2021-05-10|website=India Education {{!}} Latest Education News India {{!}} Global Educational News {{!}} Recent Educational News|language=en-US}}

Wilcox started the Frontiers in Climate Negative Emissions Technologies Journal with co-editor Phil Renforth.

Wilcox is married and has one daughter. They live in Philadelphia.{{Cite journal |date=2020-06-16 |title=Jennifer Wilcox to Lead Carbon Dioxide Removal as WRI Senior Fellow |url=https://www.wri.org/news/release-jennifer-wilcox-lead-carbon-dioxide-removal-wri-senior-fellow |journal=World Resources Institute |language=en}}

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