
Dr. Claire Nelson
Dr. Claire Nelson, co-founder, CTO: Claire is a geochemist with expertise in basalt chemical weathering, aqueous geochemistry, and secondary mineral formation.
She earned both an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, where her field-based research focused on basalt weathering in both subsurface and surficial settings in Iceland. As a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University, she developed Cella’s novel carbon injection method to optimize the efficiency of mineralization at scale.