Ingrid Caraballo-Lopez

Affiliation

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Biography

Ingrid is a First-Gen Undergraduate, Senior Chemical Engineer who pioneered nuclear energy awareness in Puerto Rico, by founding the first Caribbean student chapter of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (UPRM). Notably the section was awarded the Samuel Glasstone Award twice and has made a chapter legacy towards educating the public on Nuclear Energy. She is aiming to attend Graduate Studies in Nuclear Engineering at NC State, in order to continue her passion towards optimizing the industry’s back-end challenges especially with emerging New-Gen technologies.