2^nd International Conference on Battery & Fuel Cell Technology July 27-28, 2017 Rome, Italy

Ottorino Veneri graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples 'Federico II' in 1996. By the same University in March 2000 he has been awarded his PhD in Electrical Engineering. From 1999 to 2001 he had a research grant provided by the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Naples 'Federico II'. Since 2002 he works as a researcher with the Istituto Motori of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy in Naples. In recent years he has also become Full Professor at the International Telematic University UNINETTUNO. His main fields of interest are the electric drives for transportation systems, electric energy converters, electric energy storage systems, power sources with hydrogen fuel cells and hybrid propulsion architecture. He is co-author of 2 book published by Springer, 2 chapters of books and more than 60 papers published in International Journals and in proceedings of conferences. He is reviewer of various International Journals that publish material in the area of energy and power conversion, and technical reviewer of Italian Research and Development Projects. He is director of operative units at Istituto Motori within more than 10 Research National and International Projects.

Electric energy storage systems, hydrogen fuel cells and hybrid propulsion architecture.

Frank Tietz obtained his PhD in solid state chemistry at the University of Hanover, Germany, in 1992. After a post-doc stay at the University of Trento, Italy, granted by the Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation, he joined Forschungszentrum Jülich in 1995. Today he is leading senior scientist and team leader for materials development of functional ceramics in electrochemical systems. Initially working on high-temperature materials for SOFC and SOEC development, his current work focuses on new electroceramic materials for different types of batteries. He acted as international referee for SOFC-related research projects in New Zealand, Great Britain and Canada. From 2009 to 2013 he was member of the advisory board of the SOFC Canada Strategic Research Network on behalf of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He has published more than 150 papers in refereed journals, more than 120 contributions in conference proceedings and 30 patents or patent applications.

Batteries, SOFC, Methods

Dr. Shamim is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Masdar Institute. He specializes in the broad area of sustainability and clean energy technologies. He earned his doctorate in mechanical engineering and a master’s in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Prior to joining the Masdar Institute, Dr. Shamim was a faculty member at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He also held visiting faculty appointments at the MIT, National University of Singapore, and American University of Sharjah. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is currently serving as a Subject Editor of Applied Energy journal.

Clean energy technologies

Prof. Vilas Pol is Associate Professor at Purdue University’s School of Chemical Engineering, USA. Before joining Purdue University, he was a materials scientist at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA. He has 15 years of research experience in the fields of energy storage, chemistry, engineering and electrochemistry. Prof. Pol’s scientific breakthroughs have been featured in various media outlets including New Scientist, Discovery, ACS, MRS and TV (NOVA, ABC7, Asia TV, and Univision) news. He has authored or co-authored 115 research publications (h index 34), authored 4 book chapters and an inventor on 15 US patents/applications. He is ACS Grand Prize winner, was honored with distinguished ‘Directors postdoctoral fellowship’, MRS science as art first prize, Intel prize, 2013 British Carbon Society’s Brian Kelly award and is a ‘Gold Medalist’ in Sports. In 2015, his sustainable materials development technology own R and D 100 award (Oscars of Invention).

Energy storage, Chemistry, Engineering and Electrochemistry

Professor Jennifer Wen established and currently leads WARWICK FIRE, a multidisciplinary research laboratory for both fundamental and applied research related to fire and explosions as well as accidental releases of hazardous materials. As Principal Investigator, Jennifer holds over £2M live grants to support a wide range of research activities, which include hydrogen safety as well as the fire and explosion safety of lithium ion batteries. Jennifer has published more than 240 papers in reputed journals and conference proceedings. As Leading Guest Editor, she published three Special Issues on Hydrogen Safety for the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy between 2012 and 2014. She sits on the Science Board of the United Kingdom Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Research HUB; and is also the Steering Committee Member of various professional bodies, organizing/scientific committee member, session chairs of numerous international conferences.

Lithium-ion Batteries

Tom Mathews obtained his M.Tech in Materials Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 1987 and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1994. After a post-doc stay at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, granted by the Australian Research Council, he joined Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research in 1995. Today he is leading senior scientist and team leader for Nano-materials for Energy Environment and Health. Initially working on high-temperature thin film electrolyte materials for SOFC development, his current work focuses on Nano- materials for H2 generation by photo-assisted water splitting and super-capacitors. He is international referee for J Phys Chem B & C, Langmuir, Chemistry of Materials, Nanoscale, J Am Chem Soc, ACS Nano, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, J Mater Chem, RSC Advances, Applied Catalysis B Environmental, Photochem Photobio, Nanotechnology, J Electrochem Soc, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Appl Surf Sci, Surface and Coating Technology, Thin Solid Films, Surface Engg, J Am Ceram Soc, J Eur Ceram Soc. He is member of various professional bodies such as American Chemical Society, Materials Resaerch Society, Indian Institute of Metals, Electrochemical Society India. He has published more than 90 papers in refereed journals, more than 50 contributions in conference proceedings.

Nano- materials for H2 generation by photo-assisted water splitting and super-capacitors

R. C. Agrawal obtained his B. Sc. (1972), M. Sc. (1974), Ph. D. (1980) from Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India. He worked as Post Doctoral Fellow (1980-81) at Physics Department, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India then served as faculty member at Al-Fateh University, Tripoli, Libya from Feb1982- Aug 1987. He joined the present Physics Department as Assist. Professor in April 1988, became Associate Professor in July 1988 and finally, Professor in Sept. 2003. He is now superannuated and retired on Sept. 2016, but still associated with this Department as Guest Faculty. He has more than 100 research papers, including many Review Articles to his credit which have been published in Journals/Proceedings of Nat./Int. repute. He has supervised 10 Ph. D. Students and 04 are working presently under him. He has visited number of countries including US, UK, Canada, Germany, Japan etc. and delivered invited talks. He has also participated in number of Nat./Int. Conferences. He served as reviewer to many Nat./Int. Journals and member of many scientific committees in the area of his research interest.

Non-lithium dry polymer electrolytes

Muhammad Afzal obtained his M.Sc in Applied Physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in 2013 and is continueing PhD in Energy Technology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden since June, 2014. After M.Sc at KTH University, he was appointed as Research Engineer and Project Manager at KTH for EC FP7 TriSOFC (2012-08-01 to 2015-07-31), STEM and Swedish Research Council (VR) projects. Today he is an emerging well known scientist in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell and Electrolyte-layer Free Fuel Cell (EFFC) and Manager for Advanced Fuel Cell and Solar Cell Group at KTH. Initially working on conventional SOFC using perovskite and composite materials, his current work focuses on Semiconductor-Ionic materials (Three in One) for the development of EFFC technology working at low temperatures (300-600 °C). He is an international referee for International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, J. Phys Chem B & C, J. Scanning, Electrochimica Acta, Advaced Energy Materials, and Recent Patents on Nanotechnolgy. He is Guest Editor in International Journal of Scanning. He is Board Member of PhD Chapter and Member of The Education Committee at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. He has published more than 20 papers in refereed international journals and more than 10 contributions in conferences. He is an author of few book chapters under publishing.

Semiconductor-Ionic materials

Sangseok Yu is a professor in mechanical engineering at CNU who is an expert in modeling and simulation of energy system. He was majoring transient heat and mass transfer and dynamic modeling of automotive fuel cell system at University of Michigan Ann Arbor. In particular, he has special interests in control and fault detection of automotive fuel cell system. Recently, he extended his research scope to modeling and simulation of various energy systems.

Modeling and simulation of energy system.