About

Dr. Amy Prieto is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University, and the founder and CTO of Prieto Battery, Inc. She earned her B.A. in Chemistry and Philosophy at Williams College. She then earned a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a Cooperative Research Fellow supported by Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. Her postdoctoral work was performed at Harvard University, where she was named one of the first L’Oréal USA for Women in Science Fellows. Amy founded Prieto Battery, Inc. in 2009 with the goal of commercializing a novel three-dimensional high-power density, safe lithium-ion battery made from aqueous based electroplating baths. In 2011 she was named the ExxonMobil Solid State Chemistry Faculty Fellow (an American Chemical Society award), a Presidential Early Career Awardee for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, an honor she received from President Barack Obama), and won the Excellence in Storage Technology Commercialization Award from the Colorado Cleantech Industry Association. She is an associate editor for Chemical Communications and has been inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Her batteries are currently on display at the Smithsonian Institute, Lemelson Center in the “Places of Invention” exhibit.