Alison Fritz is a research engineer on the energy process analysis team at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). At NETL, she leads systems analysis and engineering research for the critical mineral and material multi-year research plan at NETL. She also supports several other water management and critical mineral projects including Process Optimization and Modeling for Minerals Sustainability (PrOMMiS), a modeling platform to reduce risk and aid scale-up for critical mineral and material technologies. She received a BS in Environmental Engineering from Yale University in 2016, and a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University in 2023. Prior to her graduate studies, she was an environmental engineer at Jacobs in Chicago, IL where she implemented environmental data management software for industrial clients and developed tools for a programmatic approach to sustainable infrastructure evaluation.