Trina Igelsrud Pfeiffer
Center for Carbon Capture and Conversion
Director
Trina Igelsrud Pfeiffer is the Director of the Center for Carbon Capture and Conversion in the School of Energy Resources.
Originally from the Denver area, Pfeiffer earned both her B.S. and M.Sc. in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.
Following the completion of her education, Pfeiffer began working for an engineering construction company for over a decade before starting her own consulting company and served as the very first female local section chair for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in the Denver area.
Pfeiffer became a consultant at SER in 2017 and joined the staff permanently in 2022. She has been instrumental in making the center’s patent-pending thermo-chemical process technology a reality. She brings 35 years of technical experience with her to SER and a wealth of knowledge to help move projects in the CCCC closer to commercialization by finding alternative, high volume uses for Wyoming coal.
