Sarah Marie Alice Lamaison received 2020 Young Talent L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science

Sarah Lamaison, a Ph.D. graduate from Collège de France who recently completed the final year of her Ph.D. as a visiting researcher in the Jaramillo Group in SUNCAT and Stanford University, has just been awarded the French 2020 Young Talent L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science prize for her research in CO₂ conversion. During her Ph.D., she developed high-performance and inexpensive Zn-Ag-based catalysts for the sustainable conversion of CO₂ to carbon monoxide (CO), a key chemical used in the industry that is conventionally derived from fossil resources. In a collaborative effort between Stanford University and SLAC, Sarah and her teammates (notably Dr. David Wakerley) then engineered reactors that reached industrially relevant CO₂-to-CO conversion rates. The overarching goal of this technology is to mitigate carbon emissions. Sarah’s near-term research efforts continue with a postdoctoral appointment in the Jaramillo Group. Sarah continues to be awarded for her efforts, she and David Wakerley have recently earned the French national i-Lab Innovation Prize that promotes the development of deep-tech start-ups; they intend to begin scaling-up their technology for commercialization next year.

Supporting information

2020 Young Talent L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science
This prize rewards every year less than 300 young female scientists from 118 countries for their outstanding contribution to scientific research.

• Official poster from the L’Oréal-UNESCO prize.
• Official picture from the L’Oréal Foundation – I have attached the two official pictures from the L’Oréal Foundation: we have the right to use them as long as we give them credit using © L’Oréal Foundation.

French national i-Lab Innovation Prize
Summary of Sarah Lamaison & David Wakerley Venture project that was awarded the French national i-Lab Innovation Prize:

TheGreenFuelCompany, GFCo, aims at providing profitable solutions to reduce industrial CO₂ emissions. To do this, the start-up (in the process of being created) will be developing electrocatalysis and thermocatalysis technologies to convert CO₂ into chemicals of interest that can be sold or reused on site. The target market is that of concentrated industrial emissions and in particular three industries responsible for 11% of global CO₂ emissions: steel, cement, and chemicals.