Education
- M.S., Environmental Engineering, University of Colorado
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
BJ received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2009 where she worked at the NCSU biodiesel pilot plant. She began working with the Weimer research group in 2013 while performing research for her Master’s thesis, which focused on evaluating the fuel value of charcoal made from human waste as a byproduct of the Sol-Char Toilet, CU’s mobile solar waste processing unit developed for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Reinvent the Toilet Challenge. After receiving her M.S., BJ worked as a Resource Recovery Scientist at Waste Enterprisers, Ghana on a fecal sludge to biodiesel pilot plant project in Kumasi, and then returned to Team Weimer in 2014. BJ currently works on engineered active materials for solarthermal water splitting and solarthermal energy storage projects.