News MIT postdoc reshapes the future of fertilizer

Callie Ayoub MIT News October 14, 2025

Giorgio Rizzo,  a postdoc out of lab of MIT Professor Benedetto Marelli, is working to make a cheaper, climate-friendly alternative to NPK inorganic fertilizers. This innovation will not only help famers with crop yield, but bring an end to one of the most polluting chemical processes in the world.