Center Personnel

The Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center has resident research faculty and staff working on many aspects of fuel cell technology and the hydrogen infrastructure. The people involved include:

Mehdi Anwar
Interim Director, Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center

Ugur Pasaogullari
Assistant Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Transport phenomena in fuel cells, Multi-physics, multi-scale computational modeling

Benjamin Wilhite
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Areas: Heat Integration in Microchannel Arrays for Fuel Reforming and Fuel Cells.

Xinyu Huang
Assistant Research Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and CT Global Fuel Cell Center
Research Areas: Mechanics and durability of functional and structural composite materials

H. Russ Kunz
Professor-in-Residence
Department of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering and CT Global Fuel Cell Center
Research Areas: Fuel cell technology and electrochemistry

Trent M. Molter
Research Scientist and Business Development Officer
CT Global Fuel Cell Center
Research Areas: Regenerative fuel cells, hydrogen production, electrochemical compressors, fuel cell materials and hydrogen electrolyzers

Alla Smirnova
Assistant Research Professor
Department of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering and CT Global Fuel Cell Center
Research Areas: Novel materials (ceramics, composites, polymers and catalysts) for SOFC, PEMFC and DMFC. Modeling of fuel cell system performance

Finally the Center's operations staff consists of the following individuals:

Patricia(Tricia) S. Bergman
Associate Director

BJ McLaughlin
Financial Assistant II

Peter Menard
Design Technician

 

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