Nico Pinkowski is co-founder and CEO of Nitricity, a company electrifying and distributing fertilizer production. As done today, fertilizer emits as much as  5-7%/yr of total global GHG emissions. Nitricity and Nico have been awarded numerous awards and grants from Stanford, MIT, Caltech, ASU, Forbes 30 under 30, NSF, USDA, and ARPA-e SBIR. Before Nitricity, Nico received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford supported by a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Nico enjoys running, spending time outdoors, and drinking a good cup of coffee.