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Dr. Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao (https://www.elviscao.com/) is currently a Senior Consultant for Carbon Dioxide Removal at DNV. He is also a Senior Schmidt Science Fellow (SSF), a lifelong fellowship by Schmidt Sciences in partnership with the Rhodes Trust. During his SSF placement, Elvis pursued his independent research vision of integrated carbon capture and utilization at MIT and built independent collaboration with researchers across three continents. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, working with Professor David Erickson, focusing on optofluidics for global sustainability and health applications. Dr. Cao secured $750K USD in grant funding as the PI/Co-PI from the Commission for Environmental Cooperation and the Carbontech Development Initiative by the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA), among others. Dr. Cao has been named an Activate Fellow, an MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium Impact Fellow, a Carbon Removal Justice Fellow, and a German Chancellor Fellow by the Humboldt Foundation. Cao has received MIT Technology Review Under 35 Innovators (TR35) - Global, Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy for North America, CAS Future Leader, World Energy Council's Future Energy Leader (FEL-100), Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Young Scientist, ME Rising Stars by UC Berkeley, and MSE Rising Stars by CMU, Stanford, and MIT. Besides research, Cao was inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Honor Society for his service to first-generation, low-income (FGLI) students.

Activities

Employment (4)

DNV: Medford, MA, US

2024-05-17 to present
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Xiangkun Elvis Cao

Activate Global Inc.: New York, NY, US

2023-06-01 to 2024-05-16 | Activate Fellow
Employment
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Xiangkun Elvis Cao

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30 | Schmidt Science Fellow (Department of Chemical Engineering)
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Xiangkun Elvis Cao

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

2021-09-15 to 2022-09-30 | Impact Fellow (MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium)
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Xiangkun Elvis Cao

Education and qualifications (2)

Cornell University: Ithaca, NY, US

2016-08-22 to 2021-08-31 | Ph.D. (Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
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Xiangkun Elvis Cao

McGill University: QC, QC, CA

2014-08-20 to 2016-05-31 | MS (Mining and Materials Engineering)
Education
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Xiangkun Elvis Cao

Peer review (165 reviews for 23 publications/grants)

Review activity for Advances in applied energy. (8)
Review activity for Applied energy (1)
Review activity for Applied energy. (1)
Review activity for Asia-Pacific journal of chemical engineering. (1)
Review activity for Biosensors & bioelectronics. (9)
Review activity for Carbon capture science & technology. (2)
Review activity for Cleaner environmental systems. (1)
Review activity for Device. (2)
Review activity for Energies. (1)
Review activity for Energy conversion and management. (20)
Review activity for Engineering reports : (1)
Review activity for Gas science and engineering. (1)
Review activity for International journal of energy and environmental engineering (3)
Review activity for International journal of hydrogen energy. (7)
Review activity for Journal of cleaner production. (76)
Review activity for Journal of colloid and interface science (2)
Review activity for Journal of molecular liquids. (2)
Review activity for Journal of molecular liquids. (6)
Review activity for Metallurgical and materials transactions. (6)
Review activity for Physics of fluids. (1)
Review activity for Renewable energy. (12)
Review activity for Results in engineering. (1)
Review activity for The Physics of fluids. (1)