Jennifer Wilcox

As of January 2020, Wilcox also authored or co-authored 182 papers and publications. Her top three cited papers include the "Methane leaks from North American natural gas systems", "Molecular simulation of methane adsorption in micro-and mesoporous carbons with applications to coal and gas shale systems", and "Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward".

Wilcox is the first author to publish a textbook on carbon capture. Her book, Carbon Capture published in March 2012, discusses the fundamental chemical concepts ranging from thermodynamics, combustion, kinetics, mass transfer, material properties, and the relationship between the chemistry and process of carbon capture technologies.

Wilcox represented the National Science Foundation as a "New Face of Engineering for 2006", where she was featured in USA Today. She also won the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Young Investigator Award, the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, the Air & Waste Management Association Stern Award.

After receiving her Ph.D. in 2004, Wilcox worked as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic from 2004 to 2008. She then took on the position of Assistant Professor of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University from 2008 to 2016. In 2016, Wilcox became an Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, assuming the position of the Interim Department Head in 2017. In 2018, she left Mines to assume the James H. Manning Chaired Professorship of Chemical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Wilcox was born on July 5, 1976, and grew up in a rural part of central Maine in a house that was on 22 acres of land with a stream. Her parents grew their own food in the summer and maintained a well on the property, exposing Wilcox to an independent living that shaped her appreciation for nature and to not take the Earth's resources for granted.