Chelsea Tucker won in the Emerging Talents category with her pitch on Breaking the Wall of Energy Insecurity in Africa. Tucker has developed a novel waste-to-fuel process to produce diesel and electricity for modular, off-grid applications in a Sub-Saharan African context.
ENERGY INSECURITY IN AFRICA
Chelsea Tucker
University of Cape Town
Chelsea Tucker is a doctoral researcher at the Catalysis Institute, at the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on the development of a novel process and catalyst for a modular biogas-to-diesel process that is off-grid and robust for a Sub-Saharan African context. Currently, Chelsea is the research coordinator for the BRICS Waste-to-Fuel project which includes researchers from South Africa, India, and Brazil. Chelsea Tucker is a L’Oreal for Women in Science Awardee and is a Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Scholar and Allan Gray Orbis Fellow.