Danielle Fong Biography

Danielle Fong is the former co-founder and chief science officer of LightSail Energy, Inc. and also a Canadian entrepreneur. Fong served as an advisor to several startups in physical technologies and Greentech and was named Greentech Goddess. At the age of 12, Fong dropped out of junior high school to attend Dalhousie University. In 2005, She graduated from Dalhousie at age 17 with first-class honors in computer science and physics, then she enrolled at the Plasma Physics Department at Princeton University as a Ph.D. student, but later dropped out. Following her leave from the Princeton Plasma Physics program, Fong founded LightSail Energy in 2009 with co-founders Stephen Crane and Edwin P. Berlin, Jr. LightSail Energy was developing a form of compressed air energy storage, which they termed regenerative air energy storage (RAES). LightSail changed focus from a vehicle-based technology to a grid-scale energy storage technology in the course of development. Fong was featured in Forbes' 30 under 30 in the Energy category in December 2011. She was also named by the MIT Technology Review as one of the Top 35 innovators under 35 in 2012. On her blog, Insights by Danielle Fong; she writes essays on various topics, including entrepreneurship and green technology and in the process, has spoken to the United Nations twice about innovations, entrepreneurship, and energy technology.

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