ELSA OLIVETTI 

Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Engineering, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Co-director, MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium

Elsa Olivetti is the Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) and co-director of the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on reducing the significant burden of materials production and consumption through increased use of recycled and waste materials; informing the early stage design of new materials for effective scale up; and understanding the implications of policy, new technology development, and manufacturing processes on materials supply chains.  Olivetti received her BS degree in engineering science from the University of Virginia in 2000 and her PhD in materials science engineering from MIT in 2007.