Dr. Greeshma Gadikota is an Assistant Professor and Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a field appointment in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. Dr. Gadikota directs the Sustainable Energy and Resource Recovery Group. Her research is focused on advancing fundamental science and innovative technologies to meet our energy and resource needs while limiting detrimental environmental impacts including capture, use, storage and removal of greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable recovery of energy critical metals, and sustainable low carbon energy carriers. She held postdoctoral research associate appointments at Princeton University and Columbia University, and a research associate appointment at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Her PhD in Chemical Engineering and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering and Operations Research are from Columbia University. Her BS in Chemical Engineering is from Michigan State University.

She is a recipient of the DOE, NSF and ARO CAREER Awards, Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award, Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award, Inaugural Cornell Rising Women Innovator Award, AICHE Sabic Award for Young Professionals from the Particle Technology Forum, and Young Researcher Award, The 15th International Conference on Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reactor Engineering Conference.