Elod Lajos Gyenge is a professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the faculty of Applied Science in University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is also an associate member of the Clean Energy Research Center of UBC Vancouver campus. [1] Elod Gyenge has been nominated for several teaching and research awards including Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship at Osaka University and the recipient of the distignshuied Elisabeth and Leslie Gould Endowed Professorship at UBC from 2007 to 2014. [2] His research has been toward development of electrochemical systems such as fuel cells, batteries and electrosynthesis systems. He is also an appointed professor in the engineering school of Osaka University in Japan. [3] [4]
He is also the co-founder of Agora Energy Technologies, a company that he co-founded with his wife Dr Christina Gyenge. [5] The company is developing an innovative electrochemical energy storage system based on CO2-caputre and recycling. [6] [7] In 2021 the company received the 2021 Keeling Curve Prize for Capture & Utilization and first prize in the Hello Tomorrow global DeepTech competition against 5,000 entrants from 128 countries. The company also was the recipient of the Asian Alibaba Entrepreneur Fund Award in 2020. [8]
Elod Gyenge immigrated to Canada in 1993 and received his MASc in 1995 from the University of the British Columbia in Vancouver. [9] He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia under the supervision of professor Colin Oloman. [10] After Professor Oloman retired in 2001, he replaced his advisor's position as an assistant professor of electrochemical engineering.
Elod Gyenge research program has been focus on discovering highly active, durable and cost-effective
electrocatalysts nanomaterials and to integrate those catalyst particles with the
electrode and cell designs of the electrochemical systems such as fuel cells or batteries to develop high-performance electrochemical devices and electrosynthesis processes. Only a selected commercially attractive systems are being studies at his research team including various fuel cells (H
2, borohydride, methanol, formic acid), metal-air and novel redox flow batteries (e.g., using CO2), hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis, graphene electrochemical synthesis and applications, and CO2-based power sources.
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