Katharine is the Vice President of Commercialization at Still Bright, where she bridges the gap between Still Bright’s emerging copper processing technology and the minerals processing market. She leads external stakeholder engagement and is responsible for charting the company’s path to commercial scale — translating deep technical innovation into real-world impact. Katharine brings both scientific rigor and broad energy technology expertise to Still Bright. She earned her PhD in chemical engineering from MIT, where her research focused on redox flow battery systems. Before Still Bright, she served as a Fellow at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy, where she identified emerging technologies across the energy landscape.
