Graduate program: Professional Masters in Environmental Analysis, Focus area: Environmental Sustainability
Year in graduate school: Second
Expected graduation date and degree: December 2024, MS
Hometown: Santa Fe, Argentina
Connect: Guido on LinkedIn

In my current internship, I work on different projects within the Sustainable Innovation team, addressing company-wide sustainability challenges. For example, I am researching and recommending Internal Carbon Pricing models, highlighting the true cost of greenhouse gas emissions across the company’s global supply chain and fostering low-carbon alternatives.

For my summer internship, I am working in Hewlett Packard Enterprise, collaborating with different projects that improve the sustainability performance of their IT solutions portfolio, including servers, high-performance computing, cloud services, and artificial intelligence. Relevant ongoing projects include an online platform that provides designers, engineers, and product managers tools to better understand and include sustainable attributes within their products and to effectively communicate such characteristics.

Additionally, I have worked at Rice as a Communication Specialist for the Activate Engineering program, which helps engineering students improve their communication skills. In this role, I conducted research to understand, for instance, how Grammarly can be useful for students as an online tool to improve their technical writing.

Without a doubt, climate change is going to be one of the major challenges of this century. Most importantly, achieving swift, significant changes on a global scale is both difficult and crucial. In my opinion, some of the tools and solutions that need to be urgently addressed include government action and policy improvements (e.g., efficient and mandatory carbon taxes or emission trading systems), energy transition to carbon-free diversified sources, natural and engineered carbon capture solutions, and corporate commitments to improve sustainability performance beyond compliance.

I hope to be a leader at an organization that considers sustainability to be a fundamental pillar in their operations, conducting triple-impact projects, with positive outcomes from the environmental, social, and economic standpoints.

I am thankful to the Fulbright program and the Education Ministry of Argentina for giving me the opportunity to study in the US, and for the fellowship they provided to help me achieve this milestone in my academic and professional journey. Additionally, I am deeply grateful to Rice University for its full support and all the resources it provides for an outstanding student experience.