Julia Allen

As an Analyst at Lux Research, Julia Allen is a member of the Bio-based Materials and Chemicals Intelligence service team and contributes to the Alternative Fuels Intelligence service, where she analyzes the technologies, strategies, and business models of emerging companies with particular focus on disruptive technology to generate chemicals, materials, energy, and transportation fuels from biomass, waste, and other non-traditional feedstocks.

Julia joined Lux Research after working as a consultant supporting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s BioFuels portfolio of programs, which focused on converting alternative feedstocks to drop in, renewable jet fuel. In this role, she conducted technical and risk analyses on a variety of research and development efforts and was the team’s subject matter expert on technical, economic, and system models.

Julia received her M.E. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Maryland – College Park. She also attended Virginia Commonwealth University where she earned at B.S. in Chemical and Life Science Engineering with a double major in Physics and minors in Chemistry and Mathematics. She has research experience in a wide range of areas, including diffusion characteristics of systems with strong polymer-solvent interactions, design and troubleshooting of novel diffusion measurement systems, and polymer membrane diffusion.