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Patrick Kirchen

Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Director, Clean Energy Research Centre, Rosenblatt Professorship in Marine Engineering

Thermochemical energy conversion, combustion, internal combustion engines, ion transport membranes

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Joshua Brinkerhoff

Associate Professor, Mechanical, UBCO School of Engineering

Computational fluid dynamics, turbomachinery, multiphase turbulent flows, hydrogen, wind energy, biofluid mechanics

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Bhushan Gopaluni

Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Vice-Provost & Associate Vice-President, Faculty Planning

Energy management and propulsion system optimization, data analytics, artificial intelligence/machine learning, optimization and control

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Arman Bonakdarpour

Adjunct Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Fuel cell/electrochemical storage, advanced battery materials, Li-ion and Na-based batteries, materials synthesis and characterizations, hydrogen fuel cells and electrolysis, electrocatalysis, diagnostics and modeling

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Kiana Amini

Assistant Professor, Materials Engineering

Redox flow batteries, electrochemical energy storage and conversion, electrochemical carbon capture systems, in situ characterization of electrochemical processes

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Christine Chen

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Grid management (for marine/submarine vessel), power systems analysis and control, renewable resource integration

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Juri Jatskevich

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Power and energy systems, smart energy grids, power electronic systems and converter circuits, electrical machines and drives, controls, electromagnetic transients, computer modeling and simulation, distributed and parallel simulation

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