About the Authors

Jesse Hinricher is a Minnesota native. He completed his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and will pursue a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. He has worked on novel chemistries for redox flow batteries and has worked for a solar technology startup in the Bay Area. 

Grace Anderson is a Colorado native. She completed her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, and will soon begin her PhD studies in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She worked for two years at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory conducting research related to alkaline electrolysis.   

About This Blog

Applying to graduate school can seem very intimidating, daunting, and confusing at times. We hope that this blog might provide insight into the process, answer some of the questions that might come up along the way, and provide information we wish we would have known when we were going through the process. Our goal is that this blog might be a useful tool to guide you through the application process. Our knowledge is specific to applying to Chemical Engineering and Materials Science PhD programs, but we hope the information might be relevant to applying to other graduate programs as well. We wish you the best of luck on your journey to pursue a graduate degree!