Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Washington
Brian Pinkard, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington (UW), and the CTO of Aquagga, Inc., a UW spinout company. He is an expert in the application of hydrothermal processes for chemical waste disposal, nanoparticle synthesis, and energy production. Dr. Pinkard is currently involved with several collaborative efforts to design mobile reactor systems for the destruction of PFAS-rich wastes, and the destruction of chemical warfare agent stockpiles. He has 8+ peer-reviewed publications in the areas of reaction kinetics, reaction mechanisms, reactor design, and computational modeling.