Dr. Krysta Dummit is a solar industry analyst for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO). She works with the Chief Scientist Paul Basore on solar supply chain, policy, and market analyses, including contributing to NREL’s Quarterly Solar Industry Updates, the recent Solar PV Supply Chain Deep Dive Assessment, and the Webinar: Reaching for the Solar Future: How the Inflation Reduction Act Impacts Solar Deployment and Expands Manufacturing | Department of Energy. She joined SETO in October 2021 as an ORISE Science and Technology Policy Fellow before becoming a contractor with Boston Government Services in January 2023.

Prior to SETO, she worked as a graduate student researcher in the Radosevich lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she investigated a series of phosphorus molecules called phosphacycles. During her time at MIT, she was also involved in science advocacy through MIT’s Science Policy Initiative and science outreach through MIT’s Women in Chemistry group. Prior to receiving her Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT, Dr. Dummit received her B.A. in chemistry from Princeton while working in the Chirik Lab researching cobalt catalysts. While there she also published in both yeast genomics at Princeton and data privacy research performed at the Federal Trade Commission, and was the treasurer for the Institute for Chocolate Studies.