Kristen Brenner
Bio
Kristen Brenner attained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Florida Tech in May 2018 and May 2019 respectively, then launched the water quality startup Kationx with Bill Cox to improve the southeastern US municipalities' water and wastewater effluent. Currently, Kristen pursues her Ph.D. in BME in Dr. Kishore's lab with a focus on the osteoinductive capability of bioceramic in an attempt to create a method to not only slow but reverse osteoporosis, which runs through the family! She also continues to work part time for Kationx, developing, testing and implementing new, nontoxic flocculants, chelators, and dispersants. Kristen enjoys teaching, both in academia as a GSA and at various state water conferences for the benefit of the city water operators.
