Lea R. Winter
Assistant Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Columbia University
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Yale University
Email: lea.winter@yale.edu
Lea Winter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Yale in 2015 and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in 2020. She received postdoctoral training as a Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale in 2020–2022. Her research focuses on electrified processes at the food, energy, water, and climate nexus, including development of sustainable and circularized processes for conversion of CO2 to chemicals and fuels, green nitrogen fixation to fertilizers and nitrogen-based fuels, and transformation of contaminants in wastewater into useful products while recovering fit-for-purpose water. Dr. Winter is the recipient of the 2022 Caltech Young Investigator Lecture Series Award, 2019 North American Catalysis Society Kokes Award, and 2018 Columbia Engineering Grossman Scholarship. Dr. Winter has significant interest in science education and outreach: she founded SciRISE at Columbia, a high school internship program for students who recently immigrated to the U.S. to pursue independent research projects, and she co-founded the Yale Summer Science Research Institute for New Haven public high school students to work in laboratories at Yale.