Dr. Gantner and Dr. Brown have known each other for more than two decades, starting with their concurrent pursuit of astrophysics PhDs at University of Colorado Boulder. They have a shared vision for a zero-carbon future and for providing tools to help communities adapt and thrive in a climate-changing world.

The name of their company, Skip Tech, is a reference to the time they shared riding the Skip bus-line as students in Boulder.

With their combined expertise in fluid dynamics science and designing, building and testing state of the art systems, the founders have unsurpassed advantages in the creation of their novel liquid battery.

Dr. Brown (CSO) He developed the Dedalus Project which is a widely used open-source framework for solving partial differential equations; this framework powers our modeling efforts. He leads our liquid membrane design research and oversees the research team. Dr. Brown is an expert, with decades of experience, in hydrodynamics, theoretical modeling, and the use of super-computers programming for modeling and analysis. He has served as a tenured university professor of astrophysics (University of Colorado, Boulder), teaching classes at all levels in astronomy, fluid dynamics, and mathematical methods for computation and data analysis. Dr. Brown’s academic work was recently featured on the cover of “Nature” magazine (Moment in the Sun: Near-Surface Instabilities Drive the Solar-Magnetic Dynamo.)