Ben Alessio is a research assistant at CU-Boulder in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department from Algonquin, IL. He graduated in 2021 with an undergraduate degree in Physics from Princeton University, where he researched diffusiophoresis in microfluidic settings, granular physics, and plasma physics. Following his graduation, he interned at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory where he worked on drone flight controllers and geospatial analysis for geothermal energy, and later was...