Jonathan Levine, PhD
About Jonathan Levine, PhD
How do we use materials science to solve global environmental and health problems? I'm the CEO and cofounder of Folia Materials. Our patented coating technology transforms ordinary paper into a platform super material to replace plastic in billions of products. As CEO I've taken Folia from idea to a Seed stage company, with industrial manufacturing and Fortune 100 clients. Products made with our paper address low-cost universal access to clean drinking water, and paper-not-plastic food packaging. I have a Columbia PhD in earth and environmental engineering and was a Department of Energy scientist. I worked on global environmental problems: drinking water in Africa, grid-scale thermal energy storage, billion-tonne disposal of carbon dioxide *under* deep oceans, national-scale CO2 disposal, methane emissions, and deep sea oil/gas blowouts like Deepwater Horizon. http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QKt44RMAAAAJ&hl