For many young people, energy still sounds like a distant industry: technical, complex, and reserved for engineers. But that perception is changing rapidly.

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the world’s leading centres of science and innovation, researcher Kat Chang sees energy through a much broader lens. For her, it is a field where technology, economics, policy, sustainability, and global security increasingly intersect. More importantly, it is a space where curiosity can become real-world impact.