Alan West

Dr. Alan West is the Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Electrochemistry and Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University. He has developed novel methods that couple electrochemical and biological technologies that may potentially be used to produce fuels from renewable electricity, to convert inorganic waste streams to fuels, and to enable alternative processes for use in copper mining. His startup, Still Bright, uses transformative reaction chemistry to enable the rapid, clean, and complete recovery of copper.