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Angelo Moreno, Technical Program Chair
ENEA (Italian Agency for Energy and Environment)
Dr. Angelo Moreno received his masters in Chemical Engineering at the University of Naples in 1974. From ’74 to ’78 he worked at the Euratom Centre of Karlsruhe in the “Modelling Group”. He joined ENEA in 1979 and worked in the field of nuclear waste treatment and conditioning till 1994 as responsible of High Level Radioactive Waste Project. Since 1995 he is the Responsible of the ENEA “ High Temperature Fuel Cells Project” (SOFC and MCFC) and has been directing projects at national and international level. He is member of the IEA Executive Committee of the Implementing Agreement on fuel cell, participates as member to the activity of Annex XII (Fuel Cell for stationary Application) and is sub task leader in the Annex XIV (MCFC Towards demonstration). He is member for the European Science foundation of the network “Bio Energy by Fuel Cell Applications” He is author of various publications.
Piero Lunghi, Technical Program Co-Chair
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale
Piero Lunghi graduated at University of Perugia with honour, he got a PhD in Energy Systems at Politecnico di Bari.He is active in fuel cell research since 1997. He is author of more than 60 international publications in this field. He is responsible of National and European programs on fuel cells (FISR, FCTESTNET) at University of Perugia. He and coordinator of several others fuel cells projects at University of Perugia involving both fuel cell producers and end users. He is the responsible of Fuel Cell Lab at the University of Perugia where he coordinates activities relating to design, numerical simulation and experimental activities in the field of MCFC, SOFC and PEM technologies.
 Roberto Bove, Technical Program Manager
Industrial Engineering Department, University of Perugia
Roberto Bove is engineer researcher at University of Perugia, Italy. He is currently involved in development of fuel cell technologies for stationary applications. He graduated with a PhD at the University of Perugia after a Laurea in Mechanical Engineering at the same university. From 2003 to January 2005 he worked at the Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center, in Connecticut for solid oxide fuel cell technology development. Together with fuel cells, high efficient energy systems, environmental analysis and renewable energy exploitation are his main research activities. Dr. Bove is author of more than 30 publications in scientific journals and international conferences proceedings. He is member of ASME since 2003, and regular reviewer for Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.
 Michel Cassir, ENSCP - Electrochemistry Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry
Michel Cassir is a professor at the ENSCP (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris). Associate Director of LECA (Laboratoire d'Electrochimie et de Chimie Analytique (LECA) depending on the Centre Nationale de la Recherche scientifique (CNRS). Head of the team “High temperature fuel cells and catalysis in molten salts ”, with a 17 years experience in the field of MCFC and 6 years in the field of SOFC. About 100 scientific publications in Journals dedicated to Analytical Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Material Science, Energy and Catalysis. Direction of 12 PhD thesis and 32 master research projects (six months). About 150 communications, conferences or posters in scientific events. Responsible of more than 15 industrial (GDF, Renault, Alcatel-Alshtom etc.), European or international research programs. International collaboration with universities and Institutes in The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweeden, Poland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Denmark, USA, Japan, Central America. Chairman and organizer of scientific events on rare earth compounds, molten carbonate fuel cell, molten salts and high temperature fuel cells.
Umberto Desideri, University of Perugia
Professor of Thermal Machines at the University of Perugia, Italy, active in high temperature fuel cell research since 1998 with particular attention to molten carbonate fuel cell testing, solid oxide and molten carbonate fuel cells thermodynamic and performance analysis and hybrid cycles optimization.
 Dr Karl Föger, Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd.
Dr Föger is Chief Technology Officer for Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd. He was one of the founders of the Company in 1992 when he worked for CSIRO (Australia’s premier public research organization). He is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of fuel cells and catalysis. His expertise fields include fuel cells, materials, catalysts and process technologies, and he has published over 150 papers in these fields, presented as invited speaker at numerous international conferences, and holds a number of patents in fuel processing and solid oxide fuel cell technology. He is an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University (Melbourne, Australia).
 Gerhard Huppmann, MTU CFC Solutions GmbH
The physicist Gerhard Huppmann M. Sc. is working since more than 25 years in the field of energy technologies with a focus on high effective and renewable energy utilizing systems. Since 1989 in the field of carbonate fuel cell systems basically he created the design of MTU's Carbonate Fuel Cell HotModule. Head of the group "New Fuel Cell Concepts and Applications" at MTU CFC Solutions GmbH, a subsidiary of MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH within the DaimlerChrysler group. The design of the HotModule was awarded for innovations and future applications of natural gas sponsored by the German gas business sector.
 Aristide Massardo, University of Genoa
Prof. Massardo established the Thermochemical Power Group at DIMSET (www.tpg.unige.it) in 1998, and he is at the moment the University of Genoa co-coordinator for several international projects. He is the Director of the new Rolls Royce Fuel Cell Systems University Technology Centre at Faculty of Engineering - University of Genoa, Deputy Dean of the Faculty since 2003, and Chair of the Cycle Innovations Technical Committee ASME-IGTI. Prof. Massardo has authored over 80 papers published in international journals or presented at International Conferences, and he is the winner of the BEST PAPER AWARD of the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI-ASME) for the years 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2004.
Robert M. Moore, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dr. Moore's 35 years of professional experience include consulting, university teaching and research, industrial research, and new process and product development and testing. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, author or co-author of more than 100 technical publications and papers, and holds or shares seven US Patents. In 1999 he was elected a ByFellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge, and he usually spends several months each year at Cambridge engaged in collegial research on PEM fuel cells and related areas of technology and applications. He is currently the Director of Fuel Cell Research for the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute of the University of Hawaii. Prior to joining the faculty at UH, he was the Director of the Fuel Cell Vehicle & Fuels Modeling Project, and Co-Director of the FCV Center-of-Excellence, at the Institute of Transportation Studies of the University of California. The FCV & Fuels Modeling Project (1997-2004) was a seven-year research program, funded by an international consortium of 25 companies from the automotive and fuels industry. The FCV Center-of-Excellence was established under the US DoE Graduate Automotive Technology Excellence program to educate and develop future technical and policy leaders in the automotive industry. Dr. Moore also lectured on the fundamentals of Fuel Cells and related system and application topics. Prior to joining the University of California, Dr. Moore held a variety of senior positions at Chevron Research Company (80-97) and was a Member of the Technical Staff and technical manager at the Sarnoff Research Center of RCA Corporation (66-79). He earned his DSc in Engineering as a NASA Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the George Washington University, and his undergraduate honors include Outstanding BSE Graduate and membership in both the Engineering and Physics Honor Societies.
 Wolfgang Winkler, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Wolfgang Winkler is Professor for energy technology at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. After an industrial career in boiler engineering, and different management positions in power industry he joined his university as a professor in 1990. Here he started his work on fuel cell technology. The actual research activities cover the design and development activities including process simulation and experimental evaluation of fuel cell systems onboard ships and onboard aircraft. He is chairman of the VDI (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure) committee on fuel cells, member of the scientific advisory group of the EU JRC Institute for Energy in Petten, and other national and international fuel cell organizations and involved in different EU funded R&D activities and projects on fuel cells.
 Leonardo Giorgi, ENEA
Dr. Leonardo Giorgi graduated in Industrial Chemistry at Institute of Metallurgy of Rome University. He was researcher at Centro Sviluppo Materiali (1983-1988) in the field of anticorrosive inorganic and organic coatings. In 1988 he joined ENEA, were his interest is in the field of fuel cells, rechargeable lithium-polymer batteries and nanostructured materials. He is author of more than 50 papers and 120 communications to congresses. His published works include papers on corrosion, anticorrosive coatings, solid state electrochemistry, electrode kinetics, electrochemical techniques, electrocatalysis, solid state electrochemistry, electrodeposition, molten carbonates/polymer electrolyte fuel cells and carbon nanotubes. He is member of Italian Chemical Society, Italian Association of Metallurgy and International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE).
 Bert Rietveld, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)
Bert Rietveld studied materials science and started his professional career by working on structural materials for nuclear applications at the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) in 1980. Furthermore he was engaged in troubleshooting and failure analysis in various areas, actually ranging from the optimisation of the polishing process of gravestones to the analysis of welding cracks in the legs of oil production platforms situated in the North sea. Around 1980 he started working on corrosion and protection of structural steels for Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells, and from 1983 he fully moved into the MCFC field. During the MCFC period he led R&D projects on materials, components and stack development. In January 2000 he switched to SOFC technology and became the general manager of the R&D group. Currently he is a work package manager in a number of international projects funded by the European Commission and he is the coordinator of the SOFCnet, a thematic European network on SOFC technology.
 Nigel Sammes, University of Connecticut
Graduated with a PhD from Imperial College, London University, UK, in 1987 (and an MBA in 2000). From 1987 to 1991, worked at ICI Chemicals and Polymers, as a Senior Research Scientist, running a group that investigated new materials for use in electrochemical applications. From 1991 to 2000, Sammes was a Professor at the University of Waikato, in Hamilton New Zealand. He was the founding Professor of the Materials and Process Engineering Department, and held a number of senior positions (including Head) of that Department. Sammes taught a number of courses relating to Materials Engineering, and also formed a large research group studying solid oxide fuel cells. He has published over 200 papers, patents and book chapters, and was the author of a textbook on Ionic Materials. In 2000 Sammes moved to Acumentrics, in Westwood Massachusetts, with a number of his research team, and set up the solid oxide fuel cell commercialization program there, as the Director of Fuel Cell Development. In May of 2002 he accepted the post of UTC Chair Professor in Fuel Cell Technology (and Professor of Mechanical Engineering) at the University of Connecticut, as well as the first director of the Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center.He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK), a Chartered Engineer and a member of a number of other professional institutions. He serves on a number of editorial boards including Journal of Power Sources, Fuel Cells: From Fundamentals to Systems, and the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. He is also the Editor-in-chief of the ASME Journal of Fuel Cell science and Technology.
 Mauro Scagliotti, CESI
Dr. Mauro Scagliotti received his Laurea in Physics from the University of Pavia, Italy, and his PhD in Solid State Physics from P. and M. Curie University of Paris, France. He currently holds the position of Fuel Cell Project Leader at CESI (Milano - Italy). Dr. Scagliotti has been involved since the eighties in R&D and demonstration activities on molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFC) for distributed power generation. He gained a remarkable experience on the characterisation and testing of innovative components, single cells, stacks and proof-of concept plants. More recently he has been responsible of the testing of PEFC stack and modules coupled with metal hydride hydrogen storages. Dr. Scagliotti has authored more than 60 papers and communications in referred journals and conference proceedings on Material Science, Solid State Physics and Fuel Cells and of several proprietary technical reports.
 Lars Sjunnesson, Sydkraft AB
Prof Lars Sjunnesson, born in 1947, has been working with Sydkraft AB in Malmö, Sweden, since 26 years. Sydkraft is the largest private energy utility in Sweden. Sydkraft is today a part of E.ON AG with the main market responsibility for the Nordic countries. The main business area for Sydkraft was for a long time to produce, distribute and sell electricity. Today also distribution and selling of natural gas represents a large business area as well as producing, distributing and selling heat. In Sydkraft Prof Sjunnesson holds a position as director for Corporate R&D with the responsibility for all R&D-issues within the group.Since November 1997 Prof Sjunnesson is also adjunct professor at Lund University where his task is to build up a new research area in the field of "Implementation of new energy technologies" covering technical and economic factors as well as all kind of non-technical issues of concern.Prof Sjunnesson is the president of the European Hydrogen Association. He is also a member of the Advisory Council to the Technology Platform for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells set up by the European Commission as well as the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Advanced Fuel Cells implementing agreement within the IEA (International Energy Agency).
 Stefano Ubertini, University of Rome
Stefano Ubertini graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Perugia, Italy, in 1998 and holds a Ph.D. in Fluid Machinery from the Polytechnic of Bari, Italy. He is currently employed as an assistant professor at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy, where he is the lecturer of the course “Fluid Machinery”. He has (co)authored over 40 publications in referred international journals and international conference proceedings on fuel cells, renewable energy, internal combustion engines, hybrid vehicles and thermo-fluid dynamics. He is an ASME member since 2001 and he has served as a reviewer in some ASME conferences and in the ASME Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology.
 Sergio Ulgiati, University of Siena, Italy
Education in Physics and Physical Chemistry. Professor of Life Cycle and Environmental Impact Assessment. Coordinator of the Energy and Environment Research Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Siena, Italy. Research experience in Energy Analysis, Life Cycle Assessment, Zero Emission Techniques and Strategies. He has applied these evaluation methods to a large number of advanced energy conversion devices (Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, hydrogen from steam reforming and water electrolysis, coal gasification, thin film photovoltaics, wind turbines, combined cycle gas turbines), calculating efficiency and environmental impact indicators and identifying bottlenecks and efficiency drops over the whole life cycle of the product.
 Mark C. Williams, U. S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Dr. Mark C. Williams is currently the Distributed Generation Technology Manager at the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory. He is responsible for budget, planning and outreach for the stationary power fuel cell program of the DOE's Office of Fossil Energy. Dr. Williams professional memberships and affiliations include the following: Organizing Committee Fuel Cell Seminar, International Board of Advisers – European Fuel Cell Forum, Full Member Electrochemical Society, Full Member of the American Ceramic Society, and Senior Member American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was elected Chair of the Fuel Cell Seminar, the world’s largest meeting on fuel cells, for 2002 and for 2003. He received the U.S. Fuel Cell Council’s Pathfinder Award for 18 years of outstanding leadership to the fuel cell industry in 2003. He received a Recognition Award from the American Society of Materials in October of 2004. He has a wide range of longtime fuel cell interests and is also the holder of several fuel cell technology area patents and author of hundreds of publications. He is an Adjunct Professor at West Virginia University and the University of Utah, and a faculty fellow at the National Fuel Cell Research Center at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Williams received a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied under a Jane Lewis Fellowship and completed his B.A., B.S., and M.S. at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV.
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