Emma Laub is a fourth-year undergraduate student double majoring in Biomedical Engineering and Plan II Honors at the University of Texas at Austin. She works as a research assistant for the Webber Energy Group, where she studies, under the guidance of Drs. Yael Glazer and Isabella Gee, the potential of municipal organic waste as a source of renewable energy. Previously, through this role as a research assistant, Emma also assisted in a techno-economic analysis of adding solar and storage to the electricity grid at the distribution level and developed an RShiny app which helps residential customers and electric utilities quantify peak electricity demand reduction and shift. After graduation, Emma hopes to pursue a career in research or industry in the areas of sustainability or biotechnology.