Grace Connors
PhD student
Village-scale desalination team
Research Interests
Grace is a graduate student on the desal team. As an undergraduate, she worked as a researcher in the Lienhard Lab focused on membrane distillation and reverse osmosis technologies. Then, after graduating, she worked as the Commercial Engineering Director at a startup using desalination-related technology to concentrate beer in order to reduce shipping costs. Upon returning to MIT in 2019, she is working on optimizing and commercializing the time-variant photovoltaic electrodialysis system.
Education
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
Hobbies
Cycling, traveling, board games