Lin Boynton

Lin is a scientist passionate about using art and design to evolve the way people think, work, and communicate. Recently, Lin worked to develop partnerships and coordinate research with industry at a sustainability startup, Indigo, after she graduated from ETH Zurich with her MSc in biogeochemistry in 2020. Before ETH Zurich, she conducted research that leveraged synthetic biology to develop tools for the environmental sciences at Rice University and studied geophysical science at the University of Chicago. Now, Lin will spend her PhD working in collaboration with both formal and informal recyclers to develop low-cost methods to recycle plastics and subsequently produce high-value products with this material in Malawi. Someone who is constantly involved with side projects, there is a good chance you’ll find Lin in the new Student Project House makerspace in ETH Zentrum working with Precious Plastic or brainstorming intersections between art and science.