Dr. Kristin Bennett

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Trained as a mechanical engineer and geophysicist, Dr. Bennett spent years working as materials scientists for the US. Department of Energy national labs as a rock-squeezing, neutron scatterer. What the heck is that? Just a fancy name for a materials scientist, looking at atoms, probing their dynamics to understand better the way the world works.

While shooting time-of-flight neutrons at anything under the sun: rocks, metals, advanced composites, starfish, stromatolites, plutionium, uranium, beryllium, and Oetzi the iceman’s 5,300 year axe took Kristin all over the world seeking linear accelerators and samples, her personal passion quickly became adventure travel. Of the geological nature (not in age), Kristin has trekked through Nepal, India, China, Turkey, Japan, Russia, and numerous regions of South America, not only in search of microdiamonds for analysis in the depth of the Dabie Shan region China, but also to reach new heights and set some personal climbing goals. In 2009 Kristin climbed Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere and in 2011 she reached the top of Illimani over looking Bolivia. Her passion and interests are rooted in mountaineering and continue to grow with sites in Tibet and China on the bucket list.

Kristin worked as the director of a Department of Energy nanoscience program for 7 years before she started KB Science full time in 2008 to help clients expand the power of new innovative materials for clean energy science solutions. Kristin resides in Boston and Washington DC, and supports universities, small and large businesses and government labs to accelerate inventions in the energy efficiency renewable energy federal market space, and Making Science Count.

Kristin is most proud of her work promoting science education and outreach for K-12 and public audiences, and projects like Science Sunday, Strange Matter www.strangematterexhibit.com, the NOVA project MAKING STUFF http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/making-stuff.html, and the energy future documentary from Detroit Public Television Beyond the Light Switch http://www.beyondthelightswitch.com/. (Photo taken by Joshua Jarrin on Illimani Summit, 21,112 feet, Bolivia, August 2011.)

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