Pioneers for a Cleaner Future
TAKING THE ENERGY INDUSTRY BY STORM
Who We Are
We started Eden with a mission to make scalable, sustainable recovery of Earth’s geothermal heat and natural resources possible.

Founded by geoscientists Paris Smalls and Ammar Alali, Eden is developing a first-of-its-kind Electrical Reservoir Stimulation technology with applications in the geothermal, mining, and petroleum industries. Electrical Reservoir Stimulation is a safer, more effective, and more efficient method of recovering Earth’s natural resources—helping us achieve a carbon-free future.
A DIVERSE TEAM OF EXPERTS IN EARTH SCIENCES
Our Team
Our team encompasses leading innovators in energy technologies from the MIT Earth Resources Laboratory and professionals with wide-ranging backgrounds in the petroleum industry.

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Paris Smalls, PhD

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

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Ammar Alali

Co-founder & President

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Marybeth Lundquist

Chief Operations Officer

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Rafael Villamor-Lora, PhD

VP of R&D

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Paul Cole

Head of Subsurface Engineering

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Alexis Templeton, PhD

Head of Geochemistry

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Spencer Aertker, PhD

Head of Mining & CO2 Mineralization

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Ehsan Haghighat, PhD

Head of Simulations & AI

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Desi Hambrock

Chief of Staff

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Pierre Jeanne, PhD

Head of Reservoir Engineering

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Ahmed Hani

MENA Region Manager

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Vikas Agrawal, PhD

Senior Geochemist

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Janelle Randle

Geothermal Project Coordinator

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Chelsea Cervantes

Geothermal Technical Lead, MSc

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Vicky Chandra

Geothermal Geologist

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Chunfang Meng, PhD

Senior Geoscientist

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Sam Klarin

Geothermal Scientist

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Ali Tarokh, PhD

Laboratory R&D Geoscientist

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Chase Nau-Hi, PhD

Senior High Voltage Power Engineer

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Adrian Moure, PhD

Computational R&D Geoscientist

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Bailey Halbreich

Mechanical Design Engineer

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Patrick Mulcahy

Mechanical Design Engineer

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Jacob Newmark

R&D Geochemist Associate

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Jonas Toupal

Geochemist

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Dominic Magaisa, PhD

Senior Mining Engineer

Advisors
ARPA-E Geothermal Project Team
Board of Directors
DETERMINED FROM THE VERY BEGINNING
How We Started
Paris Smalls and Ammar Alali met at MIT as second-year Ph.D. students.

As they learned about environmental issues associated with hydraulic fracturing operations in the geothermal industry, they were inspired to develop reservoir stimulation technology that was more effective and environmentally friendly. They started Eden in the spring of 2017 to develop commercial solutions for sustainable reservoir stimulation.

Eden is currently headquartered at GreenTown Labs in Somerville, Massachusetts, the largest clean technology incubator in the United States, and plans to expand to Saudi Arabia in the near future.
Our Journey
2017
Founding
Eden was born by MIT talent and initiatives
2018
NSF Phase 1
Eden was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) SBIR Phase I “America’s Seed Grant” $225,000 Award
2019
Ameren Accelerator
Eden was one of six start-ups out of 300+ applicants to receive a $100,000 investment from Fortune 500 Company, Ameren
2020
NSF Phase 2
Eden was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) SBIR Phase II “America’s Seed Grant” $740,000 Award
2021
ARPA-E Open 2021
Eden Announces $3.8M ARPA-E Open 2021 Award to Develop Next Generation Geothermal Stimulation Technology
Q1 2022
To be Announced Soon
New commercial geothermal exploration contracts
Q3 2022
To be Announced Soon
New commercial contracts for electrical reservoir stimulation technology
SUPPORTED BY DILUTIVE AND NON-DILUTIVE FUNDING
Funding Partners
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“Eden is working on developing groundbreaking technology for the geothermal industry, which is important to the decarbonization of our economy on multiple fronts. I look forward to following their progress towards this ambition!”

EMILY REICHERT, PHD
CEO, GREENTOWN LABS

"This technology could unlock the 1,000+ GWe renewable geothermal potential of the MENA region."

Abdullah Al-Shasky
Co-Founder & CEO, Phaze Ventures

"We invested in Eden because we believed in the team and the positive impact of their technology in the geothermal industry."

Maureen Boyce, PhD
Managing Partner, Good Growth Capital
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