Aruna Ramkrishnan

CTO and Co-founder at Copernic Catalysts

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

About Aruna Ramkrishnan

Aruna Ramkrishnan is CTO and Co-founder at Copernic Catalysts. Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Building Copernic Catalysts. We are a clean-tech startup on a mission to transform industrial chemicals and fuels via novel catalysts. We are in the business of wedding the visionary with the practical, designing novel high-efficiency technologies that are compatible with the existing economics and structure of the chemical industry. Our catalysts make existing processes lower-cost as well as more sustainable. Our coupled computational screening and high-throughput experimental approach to catalyst design enables us to innovate at unprecedented rates. We are currently commercializing a novel thermochemical ammonia synthesis catalyst that is highly productive and helps increase plant throughput at fixed Capex, while reducing energy conversion. We also target catalysts for other fuels and chemicals. Copernic is backed by stellar deep tech investors like Future Ventures and The Engine. We also were awarded an ARPA-E OPEN grant by the U.S. Department of Energy. Contact us to learn more!

Skills

  • Chemical Engineering
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Experimentation

Additional experience

  • Climate Tech Fellow

    On Deck

    Started July 2022

Education

  • B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), University of Minnesota