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Claudio Cañizares

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Battery charging systems
  • Network/distributed and web-based programming applications in power systems
  • Nonlinear systems theory and its applications to electricity markets
  • Optimal power management in competitive electricity markets
  • Smart charging systems

Power and Energy Systems Group

Personal Website

Link to profile: Claudio Cañizares

Zhongwei Chen

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Advanced nanostructured conductive polymers
  • Nanocomposite membranes for fuel cell and water purification
  • Nanostructured fuel cell catalysts
  • Synthesis, functionalization and fabrication of nanostructured materials
  • Zeolite nanoparticles and membranes

Applied Nanomaterials & Clean Energy Laboratory

Link to profile: Zhongwei Chen

Eric Croiset

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Emissions control using CO2 abatement technologies
  • Hydrogen production
  • Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) simulation and modeling
Link to profile: Eric Croiset

Michael Fowler

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Conductive polymer blends
  • Design and performance of fuel cell stacks and systems
  • Development and testing of polymeric materials
  • Fuel cell materials testing
  • Fuel cell system reliability and modelling
  • Hydrogen production and distribution
  • Life cycle analysis

Green Energy and Fuel Cell Research Group

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Roydon Fraser

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Alternative fuels
  • Energy analysis of energy conversion systems
  • In-cylinder combustion diagnostics and engineering
  • Life cycle analysis
  • Thermodynamics of ecosystems
  • Vehicle fleet/power plant/industry emissions impacts (local and regional)
  • Window thermal performance modelling

Unversity of Waterloo Alternative Fuels Team (UWAFT)

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Sheshakamal Jayaram

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Analysis or conduction and breakdown mechanisms in insulating materials under high voltage stress
  • Characterization analysis of batteries and supercapacitors
  • High voltage and electrical insulation engineering
  • Performance evaluation of energy storage elements
  • Pulse power technologies
  • Use of partial discharge and other high frequency components as diagnostic tools for insulation failure analysis

High Voltage Engineering Lab

Power and Energy Systems Group

Personal Website

Link to profile: Shesha Jayaram

Mehrdad Kazerani

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Active power filters
  • Battery electric, hybrid electric and fuel cell vehicles
  • Current-source converter/inverter applications
  • Distributed power generation
  • Flexible alternating current (AC) transmission systems (FACTS)
  • Fuel cell power conditioners
  • Matrix converters
  • Photovoltaic grid-connected inverters
  • Power quality
  • Pulse power applications
  • Sustainable energy storage systems
  • Utility interface of alternative energy sources

Power and Energy Systems Group

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Xianguo Li

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Energy and exergy analysis
  • Energy conversion technologies
  • Fuel atomization and spray formation
  • Fuel Cell performance modelling and optimization
  • Heat transfer processes
  • Life cycle analysis
  • Modelling of transport phenomena in fuel cells
  • Techniques for design and fabrication of fuel cell components

Fuel Cell and Green Energy Lab

Personal Website

Link to profile: Xianguo Li

Linda Nazar

Professor, Chemistry

Research Expertise

  • Design and analysis of advanced materials for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries
  • Development of new materials for enhanced energy storage and conversion
  • Hydrogen Storage and Fuel Cell Catalyst Materials
  • Mesoporous metal oxides
  • Solid state electrochemistry of metal oxides, metal phosphates and pnictides

NAZAR Group

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Mark Pritzker

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Electrochemical Engineering
  • Electrochemical techniques for fabrication of nanostructures
  • Leaching, adsorption and ion exchange processes
  • Metal and alloy electrodeposition
  • Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) and Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) experimentation and modelling
  • Process Modelling
  • Simulation and optimization of oriented strand board manufacturing
Link to profile: Mark Pritzker

Siva Sivoththaman

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Advanced processing technologies for microelectronic devices and process modeling
  • Low-permittivity dielectric films and device integration
  • Low-thermal budget, rapid thermal, and optothermal processing in silicon
  • Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, silicon micromachining
  • Nanocrystalline semiconductors and nanostructures
  • Silicon-based crystalline and thin-film photovoltaic devices: design and fabrication technology

Centre for Advanced Photovoltaic Devices and Systems

Personal Website

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John Wen

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Biofuel Combustion
  • CO2 capture and storage
  • Combustion generated particulates
  • Energy utilization and storage technologies
  • Nanotechnology-based energy devices

Emerging Energy Research Laboratory

Link to profile: John Wen