Infinite Careers - Francesca DeMeo - Research Scientist at MIT & CEO of NoStove, Inc.

Join us for dinner with Francesca DeMeo! Come meet Francesca in person and enjoy a dinner while learning about her unique career bridging entrepreneurship and planetary science.Francesca is the CEO and Founder of NoStove, Inc., a platform helping people find the best local meal prep and meal delivery businesses to save time, eat healthier, and live better. Before founding NoStove, she co-founded Cambridge Select, where she served as CIO from 2011 to 2021. She led the company’s growth to over $30 million in annual revenue, becoming one of the largest footwear sellers on Amazon, and built the data systems managing product discovery, pricing, purchasing, and logistics at scale.Alongside her entrepreneurial career, Francesca is a Research Scientist at MIT, where her work focuses on asteroid surface compositions through spectroscopic measurements. Her research on the Bus-DeMeo asteroid taxonomy has earned over 500 citations, and her work on solar system evolution has been published in Nature. She has received prestigious honors including the DPS Urey Prize, NASA Hubble Fellowship, and Fulbright Scholarship, and has an asteroid named in her honor—Asteroid (8070) DeMeo.As an MIT alum, Francesca earned her Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics and Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, as well as her Master of Science. She also earned her PhD at the Paris Observatory and completed postdoctoral work at MIT. During her time at MIT, she was actively involved in asteroid spectroscopy research and competed on the MIT gymnastics team!Register in Handshake. Dinner will be served for the first 30 attendees. This CAPD event is open to MIT undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and alumni. Please indicate any accommodation needs by completing the following survey: https://airtable.com/shrfsjcovcoDIN0da.Note: Accommodation requests should be submitted one week in advance of an event. If accommodations are not possible due to the late timing of the request, a team member will reach out to you to discuss alternative resources and/or solutions.