HYPOTHESIS

HYdrogen – POwer THeoretical and Engineering Solutions International Symposium

WHO'S WHO

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Dr. Massimo Santarelli

Position

Research Scientist 

Affiliation

Dipartimento di Energetica - Politecnico di Torino 

Mail address

Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino - Italy 

Tel.

+39.011.564.4487 

Fax

+39.011.564.4499 

e-mail

massimo.santarelli@polito.it 

URL

 www.polito.it

Massimo Gian Luca Santarelli, Ph.D., 35 years old. Research scientist in the Dipartimento di Energetica of the Politecnico di Torino (Torino-Italy). Author of more than 40 scientific papers. Research activities: of Second Law Analysis and Optimization of energy systems and in Environomics; sustainable energy systems inside municipalities; energy economics and energy policy. Research activities about hydrogen energy systems: experimental activities on PEMFC (determination of cell parameters; water management and transport mechanism); SOFC model development; studies about different options of production, storage, transport and final use of hydrogen in the Italian present energy system; PV-electrolyser-PEMFC energy systems to supply electricity and heat to an isolated residential utility in a complete year; production of hydrogen from the utilisation of pico or micro hydroelectric input. Member of the Cycle Innovation Committee of the International Gas Turbine Institute of the ASME, of the International Solar Energy Society, of the International Association of Energy Economics.

Main fields of interest: experimental activity and analytical model of PEMFC; Second Law analysis and optimization 

 

Prof. (Emeritus) Dr. Firouz Shahrokhi

Position

President

Affiliation

PowerAvenue Corp.

Mail address

4215 Harding Rd., Suite 1202, Nashville, Tennessee 37205, U.S.A.

Tel.

+ 1 (615) 828 - 8399

Fax

+ 1 (615) 269 - 3343

e-mail

PowerAvenue@aol.com

URL

www.PowerAvenueCorp.com
Professor Dr. Shahrokhi, Professor Emeritus, President of PowerAvenue Corp. based in US with operation interest in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. The company has expertise in alternative energy production specialized in Hydrogen Fuel Cell.
Prior to current position Professor Shahrokhi was University of Tennessee and Vanderbilt University senior professor for 37 years, with expertise in satellite technology, telecommunications and propulsions.
He was scientific advisor to two former US presidents; President Richard Nixon, and President Ronald Reagan.
He was former science advisor to NATO, US-State Dept., United Nations Committee on Peaceful Application of Space, and assistant to the Chief Scientist of Air Force System Command. He has been recipient of numerous awards, among those; US Air Force’s General H. H. Arnold Award, “In Recognition of Outstanding Contributions Toward Advancing the State of Art of the Aerodynamic and Astronautical Sciences”, and recipient of several awards from American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Professor Shahrokhi has been author of fourteen books in space technology and innovation in clean alternative energy source. He has authored in excess of eighty journal publications and numerous presentations and several patents.

Main fields of interest: hydrogen energy, satellite technology & propulsion

 

Dr. Branislav Simonovic

Position

Director

Affiliation

Holding Institute of General and Physical Chemistry

Mail address

Studentski trg 12-16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

Tel.

+ 381 11 637 569

Fax

+ 381 11 180 329

e-mail

bsimonovic@iofh.bg.ac.yu

URL

 
Born January 12, 1949. Graduated in Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Belgrade University in 1971. PhD Thesis (Thermal analysis of melanins) Faculty of Science, Belgrade Univ. in 1990. Author of more than 50 scientific papers. Member of Yugoslav Association for Hydrogen Energy, Society of Physical Chemist of Serbia (secretary of the Society).

Main fields of interest: environmental physical chemistry, hydrogen storage materials.

 

Prof. Dmitry I. Slovetsky

Position

Director of laboratory 

Affiliation

A.V.Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Russian Academy of Sciences 

Mail address

Leninsky prospect,29, 119991 Moscow, Russia 

Tel.

+7(095)9585832  

Fax

+7(095)2302224 

e-mail

slovetsk@ips.ac.ru 

URL

 

Born 01 July 1937.Graduated (Physisist) in 1961 from M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, PhD in 1967, Doctor Physics and Mathematics 1978, Professor of Physical Chemistry in 1990; author more 300 scientific papers, reviews and books.

Main fields of interest: hydrogen; membranes; treatment of hydrocarbons; plasma chemistry 

 
Prof. Bent Sørensen
Position Professor
Affiliation Roskilde University Institute 2, Energy & Environment Group
Mail address POBox 260, DK-4000 Roskilde Denmark
Tel.   Fax  
e-mail novator@post9.tele.dk URL http://mmf.ruc.dk/energy (research); http://mmf.ruc.dk/~boson (teaching); http://www.danbbs.dk/~novator (consulting)

Bent Sørensen received his Ph.D. in physics from the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, and the Diploma in Advanced Management from INSEAD, Fontainebleau. He is currently professor at Roskilde University, Institute 2 (head of Energy and Environmental Group), president of NOVATOR Advanced Technology Consulting, and has formerly held academic positions at Berkeley, Yale, Golden, Kyoto, Grenoble and Sydney. He has been an advisor to the OECD, the Japanese and Australian governments, various UN agencies, and has served as technical director and board member of Cowiconsult Inc., and in the IPCC working group on climate change mitigation. He served as chairman of the Danish Energy Agency Solar Energy Committee and the Hydrogen Energy Committee, received the Australian-European Award for Eminent Scholars and the European Solar Prize. He was knighted by HRH Queen Margrethe of Denmark. He participated in numerous Nordic and European research projects and has published more than 500 works including research monographs, the most well known being "Renewable Energy" (Academic Press 1979 and 2000), scientific journal papers and project reports.

Main fields of interest: 
 
Prof. Giuseppe Spazzafumo
Position Associate Professor
Affiliation Univ. of Cassino - Dept. of Industrial Engineering
Mail address Via Vico Fiaschi, 67 - I54031 Avenza (MS) - Italy
Tel. +39 0585 52761 Fax
e-mail spazzafumo@unicas.it URL  
Born 29 Dec. 1959. Graduated (Mechanical Engineering, thesis on plants of biophotoproduction of hydrogen) in 1984 from Univ. of Pisa and PhD (Energetics, thesis on use of MCFC in powerplants) in 1988. Reviewer of Int. J. Hydrogen Energy (since 1989) and author of more than 70 scientific papers. Founder and President of Italian Hydrogen Forum and member of Board of Directors of Int. Association for Hydrogen Energy. Coordinator of HYPOTHESIS series.
Main fields of interest: hydrogen and fuel cell systems.