Maher Damak

Maher Damak

Co-founder and CEO, Infinite Cooling

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Biography

Maher is the Co-Founder and CEO of Infinite Cooling, a start-up disrupting the way power plants and industrial processes use water by enhancing the performance of cooling towers. Infinite Cooling has won numerous awards including the Edison Awards Gold Medal and the US Department of Energy national competition. Maher has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT where he developed a novel patented technology to efficiently capture water from fog and cooling tower plumes using electric fields. This technology is the basis of Infinite Cooling. Before MIT, Maher graduated from École Polytechnique, France’s top engineering school, with a concentration in mathematics, physics, and mechanical engineering. Maher got several awards for his work including Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy and the Lemelson-MIT prize.