Driven by a passion for reducing energy consumption, Virginia Canestraight, a PhD candidate in electrochemical engineering, focuses on making industrial processes more efficient, especially when it comes to decarbonizing chemical manufacturing. Whether she's designing cutting-edge devices like electrolyzers or diving into lab work, Canestraight, a Hertz Fellow and National Science Foundation GRFP Fellow, is on a mission to develop smarter, more sustainable solutions for the future. To keep her going and inspire her work, she keeps tools and mementos crucial to her research. Watch this installment of “What’s on My Bench?” to learn what they are!
“What’s on My Bench?” is a series from Harvard's Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences that takes a closer look at the tools and objects PhD and master’s students rely on in their scientific research. A lab bench is the heart of every lab, where experiments are performed and discoveries are made. In this series, students share their most treasured and essential items that help them in their scientific journeys.
