Lecturers

Anke Hagen,
Prof. Dr. rer. Nat, Dr. tec. at
DTU Energy, Denmark

Anke Hagen is a chemist from University of Leipzig. International research experiences from Germany, Japan, USA, and Denmark.

Responsibilities within the Department of Energy Conversion and Storage involve project management, fund raising, teaching, continued education, supervision, and dissemination. Professional activities comprise for example: Danish representative in the International Energy Agency IEA, Annex 24, European Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, coordination of SOFC activities at the Department. Fund raising and project management experiences include national German and Danish projects as well as EU projects. Scientific expertise in areas like solid oxide cells, electrochemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, and analytical chemistry.

Dr. Artur Majewski, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Chemical Engineering,
University of Birmingham, UK

Dr Artur Majewski is an Associate Professor in Hydrogen/Hydrogen-Based Energy Technology at the School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK.

At University of Birmingham, Artur is a module leader for modules:

• Hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels
• Hydrogen safety

He is also involved in teaching modules:

• High-Temperature Fuel Cells
• Fuel Cell Technologies
• Sustainable Process Engineering
• Energy Storage
• Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies

He is involved in the project Ammogen which aims to design, build, commission, and operate the world’s largest and most efficient ammonia-to-hydrogen conversion unit of its kind. Based on innovative technology developed by H2SITE. Ammogen will deliver 200 kg/day of transport-grade hydrogen to an existing and co-located hydrogen refuelling station at Tyseley Energy Park.He is also working as a Project Manager of a consortium of 12 industrial and academic partners in the EU H2020 GreenFlexJET project (€19m). The GreenFlexJET project is constructing a pre-commercial demonstration plant to produce advanced aviation biofuel (bio-jet fuel) from waste vegetable oil and organic solid waste biomass, demonstrating the integration of transesterification, hydrodeoxygenation and hydrocracking/isomerisation, and Thermo-Catalytic Reforming combined with hydrogen separation through Pressure Swing Adsorption to produce fully equivalent jet fuel. Artur has published over 30 scientific articles in journals and books and has wide-ranging research interests in chemical engineering with a particular focus on hydrogen production and the application of high-temperature solid oxide cells. Artur completed his PhD in 2007 at the Koszalin University of Technology, Poland. He joined the Centre for Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Research at the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham in June 2008. He has been working on the development and evaluation of solid oxide cells (stacks and cells). He took part in several international projects related to fuel cell technology and hydrogen production using electrochemical, physicochemical, and biological methods. His recent work focuses on hydrogen production, transportation and storage, materials for solid oxide cells and biofuels.

Dr Carlo Tiebe
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung (BAM)
Division 8.1 Sensors, Measurement and Testing Methods

Carlo Tiebe is a scientific assistant and quality management representative of BAM Department 8, Non-Destructive Testing and presents the topic "Sensors for safety and process control in hydrogen technologies" as a representative of the H2Safety@BAM competence field "Sensors, Analytics and Certified Reference Materials". He studied environmental chemistry/analytical chemistry at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. Since his studies, he has been working as a scientific employee at BAM on project and testing tasks in an accredited testing laboratory for gas / humidity sensor technology and the process developments required for this. He completed his doctoral project in 2010 as an external doctoral student at the Technical University of Ilmenau in the field of chemistry.

Dr Dmitriy Makarov
Reader in Hydrogen Safety
Hydrogen Safety and Engineering Centre (HySAFER)
Ulster University
Northern Ireland, UK

Graduated as mechanical engineer from Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Russia) in 1991, obtained his PhD from the same University in 1995 with specialisation in computational fluid dynamics. Joined Ulster University (UK) in 2000, currently is a reader in Hydrogen Safety at the Hydrogen Safety Engineering and Research Centre (HySAFER) of Ulster University, and member of the teaching team on a number of safety courses. His area of expertise is applied research for hydrogen safety – hydrogen releases and combustion including fires, deflagration and detonation; hazards assessment using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); and developing models for Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of safety-related problems. He is a named researcher in a number of EC and UK funded hydrogen and hydrogen safety projects – HySafe, HyCourse, HySafest, HyPER, HyFacts, HyIndoor, H2FC, HyResponse, etc., principal investigator of projects EC FCH-JU SUSANA and H2FC SUPERGEN Challenge (UK). He contributes to work of the IEA HIA Task 37 Hydrogen Safety and is a member of the Hydrogen Europe Research grouping of the FCH-JU (CT 2 Transport and Infrastructure). Total number of publications 90+.

Dr. Hans Kungl
Division head
IEK-9
Forschungzentrum Jülich GmbH

Hans Kungl studied mechanical engineering with focus on turbomachinery at the University of Karlsruhe, Gemany, where he received his diploma in 1999. After two years working on a project on thermal barrier coatings at the IKM in Karlsruhe, he joined the ferroelectrics group at this facility. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Karlsruhe for a thesis on strain mechanisms in morphotropic PZT, su-pervised by Prof. Dr. Michael Hoffmann and Prof. Dr. Juergen Roedel in 2005. In subsequent work as a PostDoc, he focused on processing, defect stoichiometry, and electro-mechanical behaviour of PZT and lead-free ferroelectrics. Since 2013, he has been head of the department of Functional Materials and Components of the Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-9) directed by Prof. Dr. Ruediger-A. Eichel at Forschungszentrum Julich. His current research topics are processing and electrochemical analysis of lithium-ion batteries, solid state electrolytes and metal-air batteries, and electrochemistry of CO2 reduction.

Dr. Izaak (Ico) C. Vinke
Groupleader Electrochemistry
Institute of Fundamental Electrochemistry IEK-9
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany

Studied (electro)chemistry at the University of Utrecht and obtained his Ph.D. in materials science under Prof. Dr. Burggraaf at the University of Twente on high-temperature electrochemical properties of ceramics. Stayed on as a post-doc until 1993. Then moved to the Forschungszentrum Jülich to work in the field of solid-oxide fuel cells on the characterization of cells and stacks. In 1994 worked as visiting scientist at SIEMENS KWU in Erlangen on SOFC cell tests for one year. Returned to Jülich and was responsible for all SOFC cell and stack tests. Became group leader at the IEK-9 working on the electrochemistry of SOFCs, SOECs, and batteries in 2011.

Prof. Jens Oluf Jensen
Electrochemical Materials
Department of Energy Conversion and Storage
(DTU Energy)
Technical University of Denmark

Jens Oluf Jensen has materials science, electrocatalysis and electrochemistry as main research fields. The approach is experimental, addressing technologies within energy conversion with a focus on hydrogen energy, high temperature PEM fuel cells and alkaline water electrolysis. He was awarded his PhD degree for a study on metal hydrides. The research on fuel cells and electrolyzers includes ion conducting membranes (acidic and alkaline), catalysts (noble metal based and noble metal free), electrode structures and cell testing with an emphasis on durability. He is the founder of the conference series International Conference on Electrolysis (ICE) running since 2017. At DTU Energy, he teaches hydrogen energy and fuel cells as well as thermodynamics. He is editorial board member of several scientific journals including Electrocatalysis.

Dr Jin Hyun Chang
Assistant Professor, Atomic Scale Materials Modelling
Department of Energy Conversion and Storage
(DTU Energy)
Technical University of Denmark

Dr. Jin Hyun Chang joined the Department of Energy Conversion and Storage at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) as a postdoc in 2016, and he became an assistant professor in 2019. His main research focus is on (1) understanding the physicochemical properties of battery materials using atomistic simulations such as density functional theory (DFT) and (2) developing computational methods to use DFT simulation results on larger scales using artificial intelligence. During his PhD at the University of Toronto (Canada), he investigated the electronic structures at the electrode-electrolyte interfaces for supercapacitor applications, and he worked in industry as a research scientist in the field of water treatment technology. His current research interest is on developing new materials for both Li-ion and post-Li-ion batteries.

Dr. Karin Kleiner
MEET, University of Münster
Münster, Germany

Karin Kleiner is an electrochemist with more than seven years of experience in the field of materials characterisation (batteries and fuel cells). In 2011 she started her PhD as an employee of the BMW group Munich investigating degradation mechanisms in commercial Li-Ion batteries from automotive field tests. She received her PhD from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2014 and received a GDCh career grant of the Electrochemistry Section for this work. In 2015 she joined the Department of Technical Electrochemistry at the Technical University of Munich where she studied high energy cathode materials for future applications in lithium-ion batteries followed by 2 years at the Diamond Light Source (UK’s synchrotron facility) where she developed operando techniques to investigate energy storage devices. Now she is head of a young investigator group at the battery research center MEET at the University of Münster, where she is looking into the physical origin of energy density limitations of state of the art and future battery materials. She has been a Lecturer at the Joint European Summer School on Fuel Cell, Electrolyser, and Battery Technologies since 2014.

Dr Robert Eberwein
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung (BAM)
Division 3.2 Tanks for Dangerous Goods and Accident Mechanics

Dr. Robert Eberwein is a scientific assistant of BAM Department 3 ‘Containment Systems for Dangerous Goods and Energy Storage’ and presents the topic ‘Storages for cryogenic gases and their safety’ as a representative of the H2Safety@BAM competence field "Process and Plant Safety". He studied mechanical engineering with focus on construction, manufacturing, light-weight engineering. Since his studies he worked for several years as development engineer in the motion, aero and space industry with focus on numerical and experimental simulations, thermal applications, process safety, and test. Since 2016 he works for BAM, where he investigates accident scenarios with cryogenic fluids such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) or Liquefied hydrogen (LH2). He completed his doctoral project in 2021 as an external doctoral student at the Technical University Berlin in the department of engineering.

Prof Dr Robert Steinberger-Wilckens
Chair Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research
University of Birmingham, UK

Robert is a Physicist by training with a specialisation in renewable energies. He has been active in the areas of renewable energies, energy efficiency, hydrogen, fuel cells, and electric vehicles over the past 40 years, both in business and academic contexts. He co-founded engineering consultancy PLANET in 1985, and was the Programme Manager for SOFC at Research Centre Jülich, the largest German research campus, from 2002 to 2012, before joining University of Birmingham in 2012. He is director of the Centre for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research at the University of Birmingham, leading a group of 45 lecturers, PostDocs and PhD students, one of the largest academic units working in this field worldwide. He co-founded the Summer School series in 2004 and has led and contributed ever since.

Dr Sébastien Martinet
Senior Battery Scientist
CEA-LITEN
Grenoble - France

Process Engineer with more than 20 years of experience in the battery field. Started working with SAFT during 4 years, first on NiMH batteries during his PhD in electrochemistry and then on the improvement of Li-Ion battery safety. Joined CEA in 1999 to develop and set-up a Li-Ion cell assembly line.

From 2006 to 2010, in charge of the Li-Ion battery laboratory, covering active material synthesis up to Li-Ion cell prototyping in dry rooms. Some developments concerned both positive materials such as phosphate compounds or 5V spinels and negative materials such as LTO or Silicon-based anodes. Another part of the activity was dedicated to the development of custom batteries, e.g. medical applications, and also to the developments of bipolar Li-Ion for high power applications.

Since 2010, works as a battery scientific expert in CEA-LITEN and leads research on various topics: polyanionic cathode materials (phosphates and silicates), post Li-Ion technologies (both sodium-ion and magnesium-ion), battery modelling etc. Inventor and co-inventor of more than 25 patents in the battery field.

Dr Shangfeng Du
Associate Professor in Electrochemical Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham,
Birmingham, UK

Shangfeng Du graduated from Tsinghua University in Materials Science and Engineering, and obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Chinese Academy of Sciences. After working as a research associate at Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Germany, he joined the University of Birmingham as a Marie Curie Research Fellow. His research interests lie in electrochemical engineering research for energy application, with focuses on the development and evaluation of electrodes, composite membranes, single cells and short stacks, as well as their application and degradation research. He teaches electrochemical engineering, fuel cells and chemical engineering design project courses in Birmingham. He is an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Energy, and editorial board member of the journals Scientific Reports and Automotive Innovation.

Prof. Dr. Walter Czarnetzki
Institute for Sustainable Energy Technology and Mobility at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences
Esslingen, Germany

After his studies of mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Walter Czarnetzki became a researcher at the Helmut Schmidt University of Hamburg in the field of heat and mass transfer. Walter Czarnetzki completed his doctorate with summa cum laude in 1997. From 1997 to 2003, Walter Czarnetzki was head of the development department of a vehicle manufacturer and head of the technical department of a laser manufacturer. Walter Czarnetzki was appointed professor for thermodynamics and energy technology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences in 2003. Since 2003, he is head of the laboratory for heat and flow technology. Since 2005, Walter Czarnetzki is member of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Technology and Mobility at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences. From 2006 to 2013 he was Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and from 2013 to 2019 Vice-Rector for Research and Transfer. In many national and international projects, Walter Czarnetzki conducts research in the field of fuel cells and hydrogen technologies in stationary and mobile application. He is an expert in designing, simulating, and evaluating fuel cell systems.