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Cody Friesen is a technology innovator passionate about solving the world's grandest challenges. As an entrepreneur and an academic, Friesen is a materials scientist who works to bring technologies translationally from the bench to the field.
Founder and CEO of SOURCE® Global, PBC, Friesen and his team developed the SOURCE Hydropanel, a technology that makes clean, safe drinking water from the air independent of infrastructure. Friesen is also the founder of Fluidic Energy. He is the Fulton Engineering Professor of Innovation at Arizona State University and is a Senior Sustainability Scientist at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability.
Friesen was awarded the McNulty Prize by the Aspen Institute in 2022, given to those who are focused on dismantling our toughest problems. He was also honored with the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2019, the largest prize for invention in the USA. Friesen was named by The Aspen Institute as a 2015 Henry Crown Fellow and among the "TR35," by MIT’s Technology Review in 2009.
Friesen has 100 granted US patents. He earned a BSE in Materials Science and Engineering from Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. in the same discipline from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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