Francesco Benedetti is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at Osmoses. He earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, and worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Benedetti received a 2021 Activate Fellowship, a 2019/2020 MIT Energy Fellowship, and was an NSF I-Corps Entrepreneurial Lead in 2021. In his free time, he enjoys playing rock music on his keyboard, singing, playing basketball, and building communities. He also serves as the President of FAIL! - Inspiring Resilience.