Carnegie Mellon University

Principle Investigator:

Professor Shawn Litster

Research Team:

Kara Ferner

Kara Ferner

PhD Candidate

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: PEM electrolyzers, electrode fabrication, materials characterization, nano-scale X-ray computed tomography

Contact: LinkedIn / email: kferner@andrew.cmu.edu

Fausto Pasmay

Fausto Nicolás Pasmay

PhD Candidate

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: energy, hydrogen, electrolyzers

Contact: LinkedIn / email: fnp@andrew.cmu.edu

Mary Anna Ebbert

Mary Anna Ebbert

PhD Candidate

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Contact: maebbert@cmu.edu

Mee H. (Jessy) Ha

Mee H. (Jessy) Ha

PhD Candidate

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: electrolyzers, electrode fabrication, catalyst design, FIB-SEM

Contact: LinkedIn / email: mhha@andrew.cmu.edu

Eugene Jeong

PhD Candidate

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: properties of ion-conducting polymers used in fuel cells and electrolyzers

Contact: eugenej@andrew.cmu.edu

Corinne Smith-Lewis

Corinne Smith-Lewis

PhD Candidate

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: water electrolysis, in situ/operando techniques, gas recombination catalysts

Contact: LinkedIn / email: corinnes@andrew.cmu.edu

Rebekah (Bekah) Adams

Rebekah (Bekah) Adams

PhD Candidate

Deparment: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: electrolyzers, multiphysics modeling, porous media transport/transport phenomena

Contact: LinkedIn / email: raadams@andrew.cmu.edu

Neil Sinha

PhD Candidate

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Contact: indranis@andrew.cmu.edu

Moaiad Alabbasi

PhD Candidate

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: electrolyzer simulations

Contact: malabbas@andrew.cmu.edu

Colin Ancalmo

Colin Ancalmo

PhD Candidate

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: analytical microscopy and imaging

Contact: LinkedIn / email: cancalmo@andrew.cmu.edu

Abby Hempy

Abby Hempy

PhD Student

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: fuel cells, high-performance vehicles, heavy water production

Contact: LinkedIn / email: ahempy@andrew.cmu.edu

Sarfraaz Mobarak

Sarfraaz Mobarak

PhD Candidate

Department: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: fuel cells, electrochemistry, automotive, energy materials, nanomaterials

Contact: LinkedIn / email: mmobarak@andrew.cmu.edu

Zoe Song

PhD Student

Department: Materials Science and Engineering

Contact: zoesong@andrew.cmu.edu

Hengqing (Edwin) Zhou

MS Student

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Contact: hengqinz@andrew.cmu.edu

Shivanee Ravi

MS Student

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Contact: shivaner@andrew.cmu.edu

Yonghan Jiao

Yonghan Jiao

MS Student

Department: Mechanical Engineering, MS Program: Research

Research interests: pervaporation-assisted PEM water electrolyzers, fuel cell modeling, thermal management, mass transport in porous media

Contact: LinkedIn / email: yonghanj@andrew.cmu.edu

Alumni of EDL

Visiting Scholars:

  1. Dr. Bo Ki Hong, Hyundai Motor Company
  2. Dr. Severin Vierrath, University of Freiburg 
  3. Dr. Lily Ming, Tsinghua University
  4. Prof. Xianglin Li, University of Kansas
  5. Dr. Hikaru Ogawa, Kyoto University

Post-doctoral Fellows and Research Scientists:

  1. Dr. Michael Whiston
  2. Dr. Md Aman Uddin
  3. Dr. Yubai Li
  4. Dr. Bharathy Parimalam
  5. Dr. Bahareh Tavokoli
  6. Dr. Leiming Hu
  7. Dr. Diana Beltrán
  8. Dr. Roby Gauthier

Ph.D. Students:

  1. Dr. Nick Siefert 
  2. Dr. Kacy (Hess) Tully 
  3. Prof. Iryna Zenyuk 
  4. Dr. Michael Burkholder
  5. Dr. Pratiti Mandal 
  6. Dr. William Epting 
  7. Dr. Siddharth Komini Babu 
  8. Dr. Arjun Kumar
  9. Dr. Tim Hsu
  10. Dr. Sarah Frisco
  11. Dr. Leiming Hu 
  12. Dr. Shohei Ogawa 
  13. Dr. Jonathan Braaten 
  14. Dr. Lisa (Langhorst) Dunsmore 
  15. Dr. Rudy Torres 
  16. Dr. Paul Choi 
  17. Dr. Diana E. Beltrán 
  18. Dr. Mohamed Abdelrahman 
  19. Dr. Jiawei (Larkin) Liu
  20. Dr. Zakar White

M.S. Students:

  1. Fevzi Kivanc
  2. Paul Jones
  3. Xiaoxin Su
  4. Yu Su-Chieh
  5. Cheng-Han Chen
  6. Joo Yeob Lee
  7. Jingyi Yan
  8. Ramon Medina Rios
  9. Seongjin An
  10. Hang Liu
  11. Dinesh Sabarirajan
  12. Vinayak Kedlaya
  13. Paul Choi
  14. Muxing Zhao
  15. Yuqi Guo
  16. Xiaomin Xu 
  17. Hanwei Zhou
  18. Tianwen Chen
  19. Dylan Ritter
  20. Daniel Velez
  21. Chaofan Yu
  22. Shiprak Sinha
  23. Dongyuan Jin
  24. Mee (Jessy) Ha
  25. Jinho Kim
  26. Alex Glidden
  27. Brian Landreth
  28. Mufaddal Gheewala

Undergraduate Students:

  1. Jarrett Valeri
  2. Zohar Bhagat
  3. Chi-Hsin Ho
  4. Colin O'Shea
  5. Tema Yaravitz
  6. John Boyle
  7. Victor Medina
  8. Allen Miller
  9. Michael Saitta
  10. Brian DeVincentis
  11. Jun Park
  12. Victor Yan
  13. Taigyu Joo
  14. Arabella Reese
  15. Elio Boucart
  16. Joshua Zapanta
  17. Ryan Lucht
  18. Emily Copus
  19. Justin Croyle
  20. Keya Sharma
  21. Micah Nowlin
  22. Claire Yang