Megan O'Connor
| Megan O'Connor | |
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| Born | |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Union College (BS) Duke University Pratt School of Engineering (PhD) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🏅 Awards | Forbes 30 under 30 (2019) |
Megan P. O'Connor is an American environmental engineer and businessperson. She is the CEO and co-founder of Nth Cycle a start up metal electronics recycling company.
Education[edit]
O'Connor obtained her B.S. in chemistry at Union College in 2012.[1] She completed a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering at Duke University in 2017.[2] Her doctoral advisor was Desiree Plata.[3] O'Connor's dissertation was about a new way of recycling rare metals that can be found in electronics.[4]
Career[edit]
O'Connor co-founded Nth Cycle with engineers Desiree Plata and Chad Vecitis.[5] It is developing a technology that she exposed during her thesis at Duke to electrochemically recycle rare metals from different electronic devices and manufacturing waste streams. The name represents the fact that the material can be used and reused infinitely many times and therefore possibly changing the way things are done today which is use and not reuse.[2][6] O'Connor and Plata developed a novel carbon nanotube membrane, that acts as the cathode in electrowinning, that allows them to recover various metals from the liquid even at a very low concentration which much less energy.[7][6] By applying a very specific voltage to a metal that is then plated onto the surface of the nanotube.[8]
From May 2018 to May 2020, O'Connor participated in the Innovation Crossroads 2-year startup accelerator.[2]
Awards and honors[edit]
O'Connor was part of the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2019 in the Energy department for her work with Nth Cycle and the contributions it can bring to the environment and the economy in a positive way.[9][10]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Megan O'Connor | Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering at Yale". greenchemistry.yale.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bruce, Brandon (2019-08-07). "Female founders drive latest batch of Knoxville startups". Knoxville News Sentinel. Retrieved 2020-04-11. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Alumni Profile: Megan O'Connor". Duke Pratt School of Engineering. 2018-04-25. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ O'Connor, Megan Patricia (2017). "Strategies to Enable a Circular Economy in the Electronics Industry: Electrochemical Recovery of Metals".
- ↑ "About". Nth Cycle. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Recycling electronics". Union College. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ "Nth Cycle | Innovation Crossroads". innovationcrossroads.ornl.gov. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ "Alumni Profile: Megan O'Connor". Duke Civil and Environmental Engineering. 2018-04-25. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ "Megan O'Connor". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ↑ Butchireddygari, Likhitha; Silberstein, Kathryn (2018-11-14). "Duke professor, alumni land spots on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list". The Chronicle (Duke University). Retrieved 2020-04-11. Unknown parameter
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External links[edit]
- Megan O'Connor publications indexed by Google Scholar
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- American metallurgists
- American women chief executives
- American women company founders
- Union College (New York) alumni
- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering alumni
- Environmental engineers
- American women engineers
- 21st-century American women scientists
- 21st-century women engineers
- 21st-century American engineers
