Jessica Droujko

Whitewater kayaker and river obsessed 🌊 | Cofounder @thisisriverkin | Dr. Sc. @eth_en | Mechanical engineer

[Riverkin @thisisriverkin]

Spotted: a fish out of water 🐟

Our sensors don’t usually enjoy rooftop sunsets, but yesterday they were briefly evicted from their natural habitat while we tested different satellite module settings.

[Riverkin @thisisriverkin]

Our CEO Jess joined IMD’s EMBA Entrepreneurship Immersion in Palo Alto as a founder, helping the EMBA teams learn from real early-stage experience.
Six days of Silicon Valley sessions, startup visits and a final VC pitch of Riverkin. 🌍💧

[Riverkin @thisisriverkin]

Our CEO @rivertechjess spoke at #ClimaNowSpotlight Pitch Night in Zürich about turning an idea into impact: building affordable river sensors, learning electronics from scratch, and staying persistent.

Grateful to @ClimaNow_ for supporting new ideas in water and climate.

[Jessica Droujko @rivertechjess]

This is why I do what I do.

[Riverkin @thisisriverkin]

Last spring at Riverkin we hand-built ~100 water sensors and shipped them worldwide. We gave 5% to Students for Rivers Camp on the Marañón, the hydrological source of the Amazon. Quietly proud and grateful to @CollectiveRiver.

[Riverkin @thisisriverkin]

@rivertechjess attended Bits & Pretzels in Munich, which was a great opportunity to exchange ideas.
Our Lead Engineer Massimo Zannoni represented us at 'Sensing in Water 2025', bringing back insights on trust in data and predictive alerts for the water industry.

[Riverkin @thisisriverkin]

Our CEO @rivertechjess presented at the ARGE Hochrhein network meeting in Rheinfelden. For over 30 years, Swiss and German organizations have worked to renature the Upper Rhine. At Riverkin, we share this commitment to healthy rivers and ecosystems!
#Riverkin #LivingRivers

[Riverkin @thisisriverkin]

Our CEO, @rivertechjess, has been awarded the Hidden Figures Award 2025 in the category Startup / Innovation.
Thanks to TechFace for this recognition!

#HiddenFiguresAward #WomenInTech #StartupInnovation #Riverkin #WaterData

[Jessica Droujko @rivertechjess]

It’s been 2 years. Time to go back to the Grand Canyon and update my profile picture.

[Reuters Science News @ReutersScience]

Jessica Droujko, a Canadian scientist with a love of rivers, has developed a sensor that monitors river health and help people make better environmental decisions

[Reuters Asia @ReutersAsia]

WATCH: Jessica Droujko, a Canadian scientist with a love of rivers, has developed a sensor that monitors river health and help people make better environmental decisions

[Reuters Asia @ReutersAsia]

WATCH: Canadian scientist Jessica Droujko has developed a sensor that can measure water flow, temperature, and so-called turbidity. She seeks to help people see rivers in a new way to make better environmental decisions

[Jessica Droujko @rivertechjess]

Thank you @Reuters for sharing my work on the water!

[Reuters @Reuters]

Jessica Droujko, a Canadian scientist with a love of rivers, has developed a sensor that monitors river health and help people make better environmental decisions

[Jessica Droujko @rivertechjess]

Exciting news indeed! So happy to see our sensor being deployed successfully by other people!

[Riverkin @thisisriverkin]

Exciting News!🌊 Our prototypes were recently used to measure a flood in the Swiss National Park. This collaboration with the ETH Hydrology group is a significant step in our mission to revolutionize water quality monitoring and to help understand and protect our environment!🌍

[Manuela I. Brunner @ManuelaIBrunner]

My Hydrology and Climate Impacts group at @SLFDavos and @ETH_en is offering two exciting positions on climate/hydrologic extremes:
1) Postdoc position in compound climate/hydrologic extremes: https://t.co/AqAH7NNtZ0
2) PhD position in riverine heatwaves: https://t.co/AqAH7NNtZ0

[Jessica Droujko @rivertechjess]

@hostelworld I just had the most horrible and unsafe experience at one of your highly rated hostels, which is actually rated horrible on Google. I do not consider the place a hostel at all and you should remove it from your platform. How can we proceed?

[Jessica Droujko @rivertechjess]

How did I miss this??

[Jessica Droujko @rivertechjess]

Got hit by a car and in the same week, won 500'000 € in (non-dilutive) funding for my startup RiverLabs (not related to the car accident)! Thank you to everyone supporting me and I am so excited to make freshwater data more accessible! 🌊🐟🐡🐸

[Jessica Droujko @rivertechjess]

Thank you @BRIDGE_funding for selecting @RiverLabsCH for this prestigious program! We are one step closer to making water data more accessible and we cannot wait to make this happen. Thank you🌊🙏

[BRIDGE Programme (SNSF / Innosuisse) @BRIDGE_funding]

🏆We are excited to introduce the new POC fellows! 11 who responded to the special call for Bachelor's or Master's graduates and 14 who responded to the regular call convinced the panel! They will receive up to 130,000 Swiss francs to implement their project. 🚀

[Jessica Droujko @rivertechjess]

The AGU 2023 conference program is overwhelming! New strategy: are you presenting? Tell me your session and I'll add it to my schedule. I'll be presenting at the H41S MacGyver session presenting my entire PhD about low-cost sensors. Come say hi!
https://t.co/uittqrhk4C

[Jessica Droujko @rivertechjess]

Oh no, I have been doing all of my figures wrong for the last 4 years...

[John Bistline @JEBistline]

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce as figures in the new U.S. National Climate Assessment report, a thread