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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.

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