Bio

Dr. Melissa Ball is an Associate Director of Technology at Energy Impact Partners (EIP). She focuses on technical diligence, assessing technologies and companies for deep decarbonization potential. Prior to joining EIP, she was a Ph.D. Fellow at Goldman Sachs in New York City, focusing on power electronics. She spent three years at Princeton University as a Presidential Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Her research has spanned chemical synthesis and device fabrication with an emphasis on designing complementary technologies to silicon photovoltaics. Melissa worked on building-integrated photovoltaics, where she pioneered the development of transparent, color-neutral devices for integration into color-sensitive applications. She also developed broadband solar technology using perovskite materials and studied the impact of molecular design on both the material properties and device performance on these systems. She has co-authored sixteen peer-reviewed articles on chemical synthesis, light-matter interactions, and solar technology. Melissa holds a MSc in European Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Columbia University.