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Farnborough, England, United Kingdom

• Lead teams to design, source, manufacture and test new FC stack assemblies and subcomponents.• Designed architecture of a battery-fuel cell hybrid powertrain for a prototype UAV. • DFMEA and Test campaigns to determine safety, reliability and performance of a hybrid powertrain.• Designed a hydrogen supplied fuel cell test station with safety systems. • Developed MATLAB and Simulink models to calculate the range, efficiency and mass of hybrid propulsion systems for UAVs (including fuel storage and thermal management subsystems).

London, England, United Kingdom

• Ongoing collaboration with researchers at ICL for the publication of research in renewable energy and nanotechnology.

• Market research and Value chain analysis to exploit home and commercial hydrogen refuelling opportunities.• Appraised the financial and technical feasibility of bespoke hydrogen fuel cell implementations.

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

• Recruited into the Joint University Industry Consortium for Energy Materials and Devices Hub (JUICED) to manage the development of reversible hydrogen fuel cell catalysts in collaboration with industry partners.• Provided analysis of complex industry and academic datasets ranging from the structural data of electrodes to the performance of bifunctional fuel cell and electrolyser prototypes.Provided analysis of complex industry and academic datasets ranging from the structural data of electrodes to the performance of fuel cell and electrolyser prototypes.

London

• Managed a (BP-ICL) joint venture to address corrosion of oil pipelines. Brought together multidisciplinary teams for various projects. Delivered a novel and sustainable CO2 based solution for scale-up by BP Plc.• Developed EPSRC grant proposals: Surface and Interface Toolkit for the Materials Chemistry Community – winning £693,837 and Preventing Surface Degradation in Demanding Environments – winning £2,563,468.• Annually lectured in Thermodynamics at the international materials modelling school (MSSC) at Imperial College London.• Supervised the preparation and testing of PEM fuel cell stacks and their subcomponents (in-situ and ex-situ characterisation) for various MSc projects.

London

• Successfully proposed and lead a joint project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) investigating fuel cell catalysts.• Published a paper on the relation between the surfaces, shape and structure of fuel cell catalysts and performance.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Physical Chemistry

Thesis: Modelling of fuel cell catalysts Awarded the Imperial College Energy Futures Lab Scholarship 2010-2013. Published a novel method.

Mres, Nanomaterials, Merit

Developed a novel method of carbon nanotube electrode preparation to improve cell performance. 71% in taught component of MRes (4th year.

Bsc, Chemistry, 2:1