Selin Gören

Selin is a climate researcher specializing in carbon dioxide removal and superpollutant mitigation. At the Lab, her research focuses on geologic carbon sequestration, carbon markets, and sustainable cooling solutions. She also supports strategic science and stakeholder communications.

In 2023, she was part of the team representing Yale in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydropower Collegiate Competition. She spent a summer in Iceland, taking courses on clean energy technologies and conducting research on carbon capture and sequestration. She attended the United Nations COP28 climate summit in Dubai, where she worked with the Woodwell Climate Research Center to track developments in international carbon markets.

She has a long-standing commitment to environmental sustainability, having previously led the youth for climate movement in Turkey, and is a frequent public speaker on climate solutions. Selin graduated from Yale College in 2024, magna cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa), with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental and Energy Studies, where she completed a thesis assessing the potential for deploying commercial-scale in-situ carbon mineralization technologies globally using saline water.