Shannon is the co-founder and CEO of Circe and has been building out the technology for the past six years. Circe is a carbon transformation platform, that converts carbon dioxide and hydrogen into chemicals on demand through the use of fermentation and synthetic biology. Circe spun out of her postdoc research while in Pam Silver’s lab at Harvard, where she focused on engineering microbes, building electrochemistry rigs, and customizing fermentation systems. Prior to joining the lab, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington where she studied crystallography and structural biology of protein complexes. She is a former Activate Fellow, has her work featured in the MIT Museum, and was named an MIT Tech Innovator under 35 in 2022.