cody.ritt@colorado.edu
CODY RITT
Incoming Assistant Professor, 2026 Dept. Chemical & Biological Engineering University of Colorado–Boulder
About
Cody Ritt is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado–Boulder. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from Yale University as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow prior to joining the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Postdoctoral Associate. At MIT, he currently serves as the Executive Officer for the Center for Enhanced Nanofluidic Transport (CENT)—a DOE-funded Energy Frontier Research Center. Cody received the 2023 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) for his work on fundamental membrane transport and nanofluidic phenomena at the Water–Energy Nexus. During this time, he also co-founded the Open Membrane Database (OMD), the first-ever centralized archive for desalination membranes. His work at MIT has focused on the development of novel 2D polymers as ultrathin gas barriers and studying the use of plant nanobionics for enhanced phytoremediation.
Education & Experience
Massachusetts Institute of technology | cambridge, ma
Research Scientist II, 2024–2026
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2022–2024
Yale University | New Haven, CT
Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 2022
M.Phil. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 2019
M.S. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 2019
North Dakota State University (NDSU) | Fargo, ND
M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2017
B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2016
Normandale Community College | Bloomington, MN
Attended 2012 – 2013
