Eric Chen

Undergraduate Researcher, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University

Anticipated B.S. Chemical and Environmental Engineering (exp. 2026)

Electrified processes for carbon dioxide sequestration and conversion to useful hydrocarbons

Eric Chen is a first-year undergraduate student at Yale from Daytona Beach, Florida. Eric has an anticipated major in Chemical or Environmental Engineering, and he is particularly interested in resource recovery from wastewater and green nitrogen fixation. Eric is part of the STARS I cohort at Yale, and he has worked on various initiatives related to the environment, education, and community outreach.

Publications

Fan, Y., Wang, X., Butler, C., Kankam, A., Belgada, A., Simon, J., Gao, Y., Chen, E., & Winter, L. R. (2024). Highly efficient metal-free nitrate reduction enabled by electrified membrane filtration. Nature Water, 2(7), 684-696. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00278-7