Confirmed Plenary Speakers
Karol FIJAŁKOWSKI
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Amidoborane salts as solid state hydrogen storage materials
Darius MILČIUS
Lithuanian Energy Institute, Kaunas, Lithuania
Generation of hydrogen in the reaction between plasma modified aluminum and water:
analysis of reaction by-products
analysis of reaction by-products
Dag NORÉUS
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
New understanding of metal hydride surfaces helps to extend cycle-life
and create new recycling methods
and create new recycling methods
Mamoru SENNA
Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
Strategies toward all-oxide solid Li ion battery
Duncan FAGG
University of Aveiro, Portugal
Materials selection in Protonic Ceramic Electrochemical Cells
Confirmed Invited Speakers
Ivan HALASZ
Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
In-situ monitoring of mechanochemical reactions
Nejc HODNIK
National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Revealing the PGM electrocatalysts degradation at the atomic scale
Aleksandar DIMITROV
FTM-UCM Skopje, Macedonia
Electrochemical Method for Production of Graphene and Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Saim ÖZKAR
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Transition metal nanoparticle catalysts in releasing hydrogen
from the methanolysis of ammonia borane
from the methanolysis of ammonia borane
Elena CARCADEA
National Center for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, ICSI Rm. Valcea, Romania
PEMFC performance improvement by porous layers parameters
optimization using numerical investigations
optimization using numerical investigations
Athanasios STUBOS
National Research Center Demokritos, Greece
Metal Hydride Based Hydrogen Compressor and Integration in Real Power Systems
Ádám RÉVÉSZ
Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
Hydrogen storage of Mg-based alloys produced by severe plastic deformation
Dag Noréus is a professor in the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry at Stockholm University. He earned his PhD degree in reactor physics in 1982 at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and completed his postdoc at Daimler-Benz, Metal Hydride Laboratory, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1983. Noréus became a researcher in 1984 and a professor in 2000 in the Department of Structural Chemistry, Stockholm University. His research interests include x-ray diffraction, elastic and inelastic neutron scattering, and electrochemistry focusing on the understanding of metal-hydrogen interaction in metal hydrides and electrodes.
Dr Goran Branković graduated in physics in 1993 at the University of Belgrade and obtained his PhD in 2002 in Physical Chemistry from Instituto de Quimica – UNESP, Araraquara, Brazil. He carried out his postdoctoral research the Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos – UFSCar, Sao Paulo in Brazil (2002-2003) and at the Department for Nanostructured Materials “Jozef Stefan” Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia (June 2007-December 2007) He was also a visiting scientist at Instituto de Quimica – UNESP, Araraquara, Sao Paulo, Brazil (May 2011-September 2011) and at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA (Jan. 2014 – June 2014). Dr Branković is research professor and head of Materials Science Department of Institute for Multidisciplinary Research – University of Belgrade in Serbia. Dr Branković is the leader of the Serbian national project “Zero- to Three-Dimensional Nanostructures for Application in Electronics and Renewable Energy Sources: Synthesis, Characterization and Processing”. His interests and expertise include electroceramics (varistors, ferroelectrics, magnetic materials, multiferroics), grain boundary phenomena, materials for energy applications (materials for SOFC photovoltaics, thermoelectrics), nanomaterial design and synthesis, sintering and ceramics processing, solid state reactions, thin films deposition, materials characterization. From 2003-2008, Dr Branković was lecturer at Multidisciplinary Graduate School of the Belgrade University on courses “Materials for Electronics” and “Structure of Materials”. He is author and co-author of 115 refereed journal articles that are cited more than 1000 times.
Mamoru SENNA is a professor at Department of Applied Chemistry in Keio University in Yokohama. After his promotion in Keio University in 1971, he carried out his post-doctoral research works in RWTH Aachen, and University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe. His background is physical chemistry of fine particulate solids, with preferential research field of solid state reactions and reactivity of solids. His particular interest is concentrated on the mechanochemical reactions at the boundary between inorganic and organic solids. He is one of the co-founders of International Mechanochemical Association. His recent activity is concentrated on the rationalization of preparation processes of functional fine particles in view of energy storage devices, particularly for all-oxide solid-state Li-ion batteries. His recent research activities are associated with some research institutes in European countries, among others, Institute of Nanotechnology in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Geotechnics, SAS, Kosice, and J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague.
Dr Carcadea Elena is coordinating the National Center for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, a department of the National Research and Development Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopic Technologies – ICSI Rm. Valcea, Romania. She joined ICSI Rm Valcea 20 years ago and in the last 10 years was involved in research activities related to hydrogen and PEM fuel cell technologies. She received her Ph.D. in 2008 in the field of applied mathematics with thesis “Modeling of fluid dynamics in porous media. Mathematical application to fuel cell modeling”. During PhD, thanks to a Marie Curie Fellowship won at Leeds University, UK, she improved her expertise in the field of fluid dynamics simulation with applications for fuel cells. Her entire activity is directed towards finding solutions for optimization of hydrogen technologies and electrochemical devices involved in energy production and storage (fuel cells, electrolysers, batteries) starting from understanding the processes behind those technologies by mathematical modeling and simulations to validation by experimental tests in order to prove the reliability and improve these innovative technologies. Sevreral paperswere published and projects were coordinated in the field of energy production and storage in the last years.
Prof. Dr Aleksandar Dimitrov received Ph.D. at Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” Skopje in 1997. In 2002 he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from Royal Society and NATO and spent one year at the Department of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge in UK. Before his academic career, Prof. Dimitrov spent four years in industry. From 1999, he is a Professor at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University SS Cyril and Methodius in Skopje where he was the Dean in period 2007-2015. Prof. Dimitrov was Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Magdeburg, Germany in 2011, Technical University of Austria in 2008 and Oxford Colleges Hospitality Scheme, University of Oxford in 2006. Currently Prof. Dimitrov is the Head of Department of Extractive Metallurgy at his Faculty. His current research interests involve nanostructures and nanotechnologies, carbon nanomaterials, materials characterization, electrochemistry, extractive metallurgy and electrometallurgy.
Dr. Nejc Hodnik completed the Analytical Chemistry program at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana. As a young researcher led by dr. Stanko Hočevar he was employed at the National Institute of Chemistry at the Department of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (D13), which was led by acad. prof. Janez Levec. He received his doctorate in 2013 at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana. He completed post-doctoral education at the Max-Planck Institute in Düsseldorf, Germany under the mentorship of prof. Karl Mayrhofer and prof. Gerhard Dehm as IEF Marie Curie Fellow (2014-2016). Since April 2016 he is employed as a researcher at the National Institute of Chemistry at the Department of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering lead by Dr. Blaža Likozarja in the field of electrocatalysis. He works in close cooperation with the Department of Materials lead by prof. Miran Gaberščka and Department of Analytical Chemistry led by dr. Samot Hočevar. The main purpose of his research work is to establish a superior and stimulating working environment for the research and innovation in the field of electrochemical energy conversion, material transformations and corrosion. He mainly deals with the electrochemical characterization of materials for use in electrochemical devices such as low temperature (PEM) fuel cells and electrolyzers. With this knowledge and experience, he recently started with the topics of recycling of precious metals. He has published 35 articles in international journals (22 as correspondent author), 6 invited lectures at international conferences and institutes, two international patents.
Graduated from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Istanbul in 1972, worked for two years in industry, received Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at the Technical University of Munich in 1976 before joining the Department of Chemistry, Middle East Technical University, Ankara in 1979. He spent one year at the Max Planck Institute in Mülheim a. d. Ruhr as Scholar of Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation in 1986, two years at University of Toronto as visiting professor in 1988-1990, and a total of about 2 years at Colorado State University as Fulbright Fellow in 2000 and 2015. He was awarded Science Prize by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey in 1996 and has been a permanent member of Turkish Academy of Sciences since 1996. His current research interests involve the transition metal nanoparticles; synthesis, characterization, formation kinetics and mechanism, and catalytic uses in hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, oxidation, and particularly hydrogen generation from hydrogen storage materials.