My name is Kofi Christie and I'm a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University, where I work in the Princeton Water and Energy Technologies Lab in the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. I'm advised by Prof. Zhiyong Jason Ren and Prof. Rodney Priestley. In the spring of 2020, I earned a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Vanderbilt University, where I worked with Prof. Shihong Lin to advance water treatment and desalination technologies. In my dissertation work, I particularly focused on expanding our understanding of membrane distillation through 1) developing new metrics to characterize waste heat integration, 2) uncovering the mechanism for scaling-induced wetting using novel characterization methods, and 3) deconvoluting the independent influences of vapor flux and feed solution temperature on gypsum scaling. You can find the research articles describing this work as well as my dissertation on the publications page! Before Vanderbilt, I earned a B.S. in physics from the historic Morehouse College.
In the fall of 2019 I co-founded a company called C-Salt with labmate Thomas Horseman. Our goal with C-Salt is to sustainably improve water management outcomes by offering energy efficient treatment solutions for high-salinity industrial wastewater. We secured $50,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to carry our company forward within the NSF Innovation Corps Program (I-Corps). Through I-Corps, we conducted hundreds of customer discovery interviews which to confidently identify our market opportunity. We're currently in the process of solidifying our intellectual property and seeking seed funding for pilot-scale testing.
Please feel free to contact me to discuss collaborations for research or entrepreneurship. Don't forget to follow me on Twitter and Linkedin .
In the fall of 2019 I co-founded a company called C-Salt with labmate Thomas Horseman. Our goal with C-Salt is to sustainably improve water management outcomes by offering energy efficient treatment solutions for high-salinity industrial wastewater. We secured $50,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to carry our company forward within the NSF Innovation Corps Program (I-Corps). Through I-Corps, we conducted hundreds of customer discovery interviews which to confidently identify our market opportunity. We're currently in the process of solidifying our intellectual property and seeking seed funding for pilot-scale testing.
Please feel free to contact me to discuss collaborations for research or entrepreneurship. Don't forget to follow me on Twitter and Linkedin .
