Darcy Grinolds, PhD

Darcy Grinolds is currently the Reliability and Design Validation Lead at Everyday Robots.

Darcy relishes interdisciplinary work and thinking about how molecular-level phenomena affect material behavior. Under the guidance of Professor Moungi Bawendi at MIT, Darcy studied semiconductor nanoparticles for use in solar cells and photodetectors while she earned her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. She collaborated on projects to translate semiconductor device physics into the nanoscale.

Darcy attended college at the University of Puget Sound and the University of California, Los Angeles, where she concurrently earned a BS and MS degree in Chemistry/Materials Science and Physical Chemistry, respectively. Darcy spent her undergraduate summers in three different areas of science; she performed analytical chemistry water quality tests for the State of Idaho, developed instruments for measuring harmful components in airborne car emissions, and explored a new technique to explore the behavior of molecules in response to solar cell post-fabrication treatment.

Apart from the scientific world, Darcy plays the bassoon, ponders social psychology and language, and enjoys the occasional piece of fiction.