Kathleen Alexander, PhD

Kathleen Alexander is co-founder and chief technology officer at Savor, which creates transformational technology to produce high-quality, healthy, and affordable food without negative climate impact.

Before Savor, Kathleen was project director at Orca Sciences, a philanthropist-backed research and development organization focused on the energy and climate spaces.

Kathleen received her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying microstructural defects in materials. In her PhD work, Kathleen developed a new off-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo method for modeling the kinetic behavior or complex microstructural defects like grain boundaries on experimentally relevant time and temperature scales. This work will help advance the field of grain boundary engineering, a technique that has shown great promise for vastly improving performance properties, such as corrosion and cracking resistance, of metals and ceramics.

Kathleen is from Corvallis, Oregon.