Alison Sykes has 16 years of experience working at RTI International, an independent, scientific research institute within their Innovation Advisory group. Much of Alison’s work has been for commercial clients in consumer products, food & beverage, agriculture, and health care industries performing market research and assessing technologies to help clients narrow in on technical options to solve challenging problems, including identifying potential alternatives to chemical of concern, searching for more sustainable materials for packaging solutions, and other sustainability related challenges.  Additionally, she co-authored a white paper for US Consumer Product Safety Commission that identified uses of PFAS in consumer products.

Prior to joining RTI, Alison completed a year as a post- postdoctoral associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering and completed her PhD at UNC-CH in inorganic chemistry.