2010 Dates  
Session I:   August 16-17
Session II:  August 18-19
Session III: August 20-21

Registration
Regular Registration $1,640
*ECS Members: $1,540
*Graduate Students: $1,200

*Proof required

Optional
Attendee can take home
research grade single cell
fuel cell loaded with attendee
MEA for $575 (Reg. $959)

Bogdan Gurau, a senior engineer, obtained a BS degree in chemical engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in 1994, and his MS and PhD degree at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1999 and 2002 respectively. After 10 years of MEA development work in the fuel cell industry, Gurau joined NuVant in 2009.   He is the PI of DOD and DOE funded programs on the development of direct methanol fuel cells fueled by near neat methanol, diluted at the anode layer by water formed at the cathode.

Carlo U. Segre received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1981. He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers and then took a faculty position at Illinois Institute of Technology where he is currently Professor of Physics and Deputy Director of the Materials Research Collaborative Access Team at the Advanced Photon Source. His research centers around the structure-function relationship in complex materials, including operando fuel cell catalysts as well as superconducting, magnetic and ferroelectric materials. He has expertise in x-ray and neutron scattering, x-ray absorption spectroscopy and x-ray optics development

Piotr Kleszyk, NuVant Systems Inc.

Piotr M Kleszyk is a chemist at NuVant Systems. He obtained his Bachelor of Science (BS) in Chemistry at University of Wroclaw, Poland, in 2005 and his Master of Science (MS) degree in Environmental Studies from University of Opole, Poland, in 2003. Piotr obtained his PhD in Electrochemistry at University of Southampton, UK in 2009. His thesis work, funded by Johnson Matthey, focused on high throughput characterization fuel cell catalysts incorporated into array membrane electrode assemblies, using high throughput characterization instrumentation developed at NuVant Systems.

Harry Rivera, Technology and Education Center for Renewable Energy

Harry Rivera is director and co-founder of the Technology and Education Center for Renewable Energy (TECRE). The non-profit corporation is located and integrated with the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. Dr. Rivera obtained his Bachelor of Science (BS) and Ph.D in Chemistry at University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, in 2001 and 2008 respectively.  His thesis work focused on transport properties of polymer electrolytes in operating direct methanol fuel cells.  His current research focuses on catalyst ripening at the anode and cathode of hydrogen air fuel cells.  Dr. Rivera has coordinated several workshops in Puerto Rico and is developing continuing education courses for practicing engineers in Puerto Rico

Eugene S. Smotkin, Northeastern University

Eugene S. Smotkin obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in Austin in 1989. After postdoc positions at the University of Hawaii and at Argonne National Laboratories, he became an assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1992. He is now a Professor of Chemistry at Northeastern University. His areas of research include electrocatalysis, reaction engineering and operando x-ray and vibrational spectroscopy of catalytic surfaces. Eugene is also widely recognized for his work in high throughput catalyst characterization. He founded NuVant Systems Inc. in 1999.