Opportunities
Workforce and commercialization
- Engaging with businesses and communities to create curriculum to teach about machines that clean the air.
- Developing rules for measuring and storing carbon and finding ways to replace fossil-based carbon products.
Synthesis and fabrication
- Making material that capture CO2 from the air.
- Designing and building equipment to evaluate the CO2 capture materials.
CO2 use and storage
- Finding ways to make carbon-based products from CO2 without fossil fuels.
- Looking into ways to store CO2 and energy.
Material characterization
- Testing materials and models to see how they work.
- Using special tools to study how materials reach to things like heat, moisture and pressure.
Modeling
- Using computers to understand how CO2 capture material performance is affected by things like temperature, wind, speed and humidity.
- Evaluating impact of CO2 capture materials and systems.
Community benefits
- Assess its technology’s social impact, aiming for inclusive engagement and equitable outcomes.
- Assess the workforce and training needs or scaling its technologies and expected economic impacts.
Faculty/staff opportunities
Faculty or staff members interested in collaborating with CNCE should reach out to [email protected].
Postdoctoral research
Currently, we do not have any open positions.
Graduate students
We are looking for masters and PhD students to contribute to our work, including:
- MechanicalTreeTM pilot plant operation, data collection and analysis.
- System design, data collection and analysis.
- Software development, instrument control.
- Mechanical, chemical, systems, industrial and materials engineering.
- Polymer/sorbent synthesis.
- Computational modeling and chemistry.
- Just energy transition, energy justice.
- Carbon accounting and certification, sustainability.
- Administration, marketing, graphic design, and project management.
- Focus groups for Indigenous students, staff, and faculty in emerging direct air capture.
- Outreach to community and high schools.
5-20 hr/wk – Mostly volunteer, but some funding available:
- Grant-funded projects.
- Changemaker Community Action Grants.
- ASU/NASA Space Grant.
- National Science Foundation or other fellowship.
Undergraduate students
We are looking for undergraduate students to contribute to our work, including:
- MechanicalTreeTM pilot plant operation, data collection and analysis.
- System design, data collection and analysis.
- Software development, instrument control.
- Mechanical, chemical, systems, industrial and materials engineering.
- Polymer/sorbent synthesis.
- Computational modeling and chemistry.
- Just energy transition, energy justice.
- Carbon accounting and certification, sustainability.
- Administration, marketing, graphic design, and project management.
- Focus groups for Indigenous students, staff, and faculty in emerging direct air capture.
- Outreach to community and high schools.
5-20 hr/wk – Mostly volunteer, but some funding available:
- Grant-funded projects.
- Changemaker Community Action Grants.
- Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative.
- Grand Challenges Scholars Program.
- ASU/NASA Space Grant.
- National Science Foundation or other fellowship.
High school students
We are looking for high school students for:
- System design, data collection and analysis.
- Mechanical, chemical, systems, industrial, materials engineering.
- Just energy transition, energy justice.
- Marketing, graphic design, project management.
- Focus groups for Indigenous students, staff, faculty in emerging direct air capture.
- Outreach to community and high schools.
5-20 hr/wk – Volunteer