Hydrogen Workshop

Anna Marie Cipriani

Corporate sustainability officer

Anna Marie Cipriani grew up in Hamilton, ON with her father and maternal grandparents emigrating from Italy. She was the first member of her family to attend university. She is a Registered Professional Planner with the Canadian Institute of Planners. She has an undergraduate degree (BES) in Environment and Resource studies and a Masters Degree in Planning from the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo. Anna Marie transplanted to Waterloo, married a Mennonite and her daughter has started first year Engineering at McMaster University. She worked for the City of Waterloo for 23 years, starting as a student labourer, then onto contract after contract and then into brand new positions in environmental protection (2001) and sustainability (2016). The last 3 years she has worked at City of Kitchener as their Corporate Sustainability Officer. Her portfolio includes corporate and community focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation

Professor XiaoYu Wu

Assistant Professor

Professor XiaoYu Wu’s research group, Greener Production @ Waterloo, combines expertise in thermal science, material engineering and techno-economics to provide sustainable solutions for energy conversion and chemical production (e.g., hydrogen production, carbon capture and utilization, biomass and hydrocarbon valorization). Before joining the University of Waterloo, XiaoYu was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he also obtained his Ph.D. degree. He has published papers in journals such as Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, AIChE Journal and ChemSusChem. He serves as the Guest Associate Editor in Frontiers in Energy Research for a theme collection of “Sustainable Hydrogen for Energy, Fuel and Commodity Applications.”

Dr. Hossam A. Gabbar, P.Eng., Fellow IET (FIET), Distinguished Lecturer-IEEE NPSS,

Director of Smart Energy Systems Lab, Ontario Tech University, Canada

Dr. Gabbar is a full Professor in the Department of Energy and Nuclear Engineering, the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, at Ontario Tech University (UOIT), where he has established the Energy Safety and Control Lab (ESCL), Smart Energy Systems Lab, and Advanced Plasma Engineering Lab. He is the recipient of the Senior Research Excellence Aware for 2016, UOIT. He is recognized among the top 2% of worldwide scientists with high citation in the area of energy. He is a Fellow IET (FIET) and a Distinguished Lecturer – IEEE NPSS on Nuclear-Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems and Plasma-based Waste-to-Energy. He is leading national and international research in the areas of smart energy grids, energy safety and control systems, and waste-to-energy using advanced plasma technologies. Dr. Gabbar obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1988 with first class of honor from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University (Egypt). In 2001, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from Okayama University (Japan). From 2001 till 2004, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), as a research associate. From 2004 till 2008, he joined Okayama University (Japan) as an Associate Professor, in the Division of Industrial Innovation Sciences. From 2007 till 2008, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. He also worked as process control, safety, and automation specialist in energy and oil & gas industries. Dr. Gabbar has more than 290 publications, including patents, books / chapters, journal and conference papers.

Dr.Olivier Bahn

Professor,  Department of Decision Sciences

Title: Recent Progress on Hydrogen Pathways Modeling at GERAD

Dr Olivier Bahn holds an M.Sc. in Information Technology from the CNAM (France) and a Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). After his doctoral studies, he joined in 1995 the Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland), a federal research institute affiliated to the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology. For eight years, he led several research projects on Swiss and European climate and energy policies. Since 2003, he has been a professor (Full Professor, since 2015) in the Department of Decision Sciences at HEC Montréal, which he chaired between June 2016 and May 2019. There he teaches, at the postgraduate level, management science courses. In addition to directing GERAD (since June 2019), he is also co-director of the e3c Hub (environment, energy and circular economy) at HEC Montréal (since June 2016). He is an Associate Editor of the journals Energies, Energy Strategy Reviews, and Environmental Modeling and Assessment. His research currently focuses on energy economics (decarbonization issues) and climate policy modeling. His research is published in numerous scientific journals, including: Applied Energy, Automatica, Climatic Change, Energy Conversion and Management, Energy Policy, Environmental Science and Policy, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Mathematical Programming, The Energy Journal, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. He is also a consultant to several companies, governments and organization

Dr. Michael Fowler

Professor

Dr. Michael Fowler is a Professor and is cross-appointed to the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo. Professor Fowler’s research focuses on electrochemical power sources in vehicles, specifically degradation analysis and control of batteries in hybrid and plug-in hybrid power trains. His interest takes him into the modelling of fuel cells and requires simulating the performance and reliability of fuel cells and batteries. Professor Fowler’s research group is interested in performance evaluation, diagnostics, and forensics associated with fuel cell stacks, single cells and batteries. His study of fuel cell failure mode and reliability also encompasses the extensive development of polymers due to their function as the fuel cells’ electrolyte, gas diffusion layer and blending of polymers for conductive bipolar plates. One of the key questions to be addressed in the 'hydrogen economy' is the clean production and distribution of hydrogen. Through a series of publications and presentations, his work has furthered the concept of 'clean energy hubs' as distributed energy generation systems including wind and solar, and large scale systems with CO2 free nuclear energy as a key components of the hubs. Unique to this work is the consideration the integration of natural gas and electrical distribution systems through the ‘Power to Gas’ concept of energy storage and distribution. This work has principally included hydrogen as an energy vector, but also considered the impact of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles within such clean energy hubs.
His expertise in fuel cell technology has landed him the position of co-faculty supervisor of competitive vehicle team design projects; ChallengeX and EcoCar where he has supervised the development of two fuel cell vehicles, and two plug-in hybrid vehicle. Professor Fowler assists these teams with their design, construction, implementation and testing of hybrid vehicles. He also supervises other award winning student teams in the design of Green Energy Systems

Sara Ghaboulian Zare

Student (Ph.D.), GERAD

Title: Integrating Hydrogen into B-U Energy Models for Decarbonizing C40 Cities by 2050: An Application of ETEM for Montréal Metropolitan Community

Sara Ghaboulian Zare holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Montreal, specializing in Computer Science and Operations Research. She has experience in both industrial and academic environments and collaborates with various national and international research groups on energy system analysis, including NRCan and ECCC. She has published several research articles on renewable energy technology deployment, consumer behavior toward renewable technologies, energy policy analysis, the robustification of renewable systems, and scenario definition. Her work now focuses on the modeling and optimization of sustainable energy systems, particularly hydrogen and renewable energy sources.