Doctoral Students and Postdocs

Martina Butori researches on Intermediate Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (IT-PEMFCs) at KTH. Her goal is to increase the operating temperature of the cell from the traditional 60 – 80 °C up to 120 °C without loosing good performance and stability over time. She collaborates with Lund University to experimentally test innovative membrane chemistries in comparison to commercial materials for IT-PEMFCs.

Martina Butori
doctoral student

butori@kth.se

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Pol’s work focuses on development of the technology of robust catalytic reactors that enable the efficient and reliable on demand production of hydrogen that is stored in liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC). Issues such as catalyst selection, conversion, product selectivity and catalyst's long-term stability are investigated. Reactor technologies that allow for enhanced mass and heat transfer rates are the key for successful technology implementation.

Pol Fernandez I Reixach
doctoral student

polfir@kth.se

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Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis (AEMWE), as a new technology, combines the advantage of proton exchange membrane water electrolysis and alkaline electrolysis. Burak’s research in the electrolysis group at KTH focuses on the electrode design and voltage loss analysis for AEMWE. Within the group, Burak is fabricating cathode and anode electrodes using platinum-group-metal-free catalysts and testing in a flow-cell setup. His goal in PUSH project is to operate the electrolyzer at low KOH concentration, ideally with pure water.

Burak Koyutürk
postdoc

koyuturk@kth.se

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One of the biggest barriers for hydrogen to achieve its true potential is the difficulty to store and transport it in the pure form. Kumail’s goal at the division of Energy Processes (KTH), within the PUSH project, is to overcome this challenge by identifying cheaper and efficient alternative hydrogen storage medium (or media) in the form of liquid chemical hydrides. These include (but are not limited to) methanol, ammonia, liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) and liquid methane. In order to achieve this, he is working on the development of techno-economic and thermodynamic models for different liquid chemical hydrides for a variety of applications in the Swedish society.

Kumail Marnate
doctoral student

marnate@kth.se

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Matteo Rossini is a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at the division of Applied Electrochemistry (KTH). His main research area is manufacturing and characterizing Membrane Electrode Assemblies (MEAs) for Anion-Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis (AEMWE). His work is focused on developing MEAs with non-Platinum Group Metals (non PGM) catalyst which can perform in pure water systems.

Matteo Rossini
doctoral student

mrossini@kth.se

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Franziska did her PhD in physics in Innsbruck, Austria, focusing on inter and intramolecular bonds of weakly bound systems studied through infrared Spectroscopy. In the PUSH project she delves into catalytic dehydrogenation processes in Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHC) on a fundamental level. The emphasis lies in studying the reactions occurring on surfaces using Near-Ambient Pressure Velocity Map Imaging . Her goal is to determine activation energies for dehydrogenation rates in individual reactions within the dehydrogenation process.

Franziska Dahlmann
postdoc

dahlmann@kth.se

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Mouna Rafei works as a doctoral student at Umeå University in the PUSH project. Her experimental work is related to the production of electrocatalysts through facile, inexpensive and scalable synthesis techniques. The resulting nano-scaled and defect-rich electrocatalysts are highly favorable for water electrolysis in alkaline media.

Mouna Rafei
Doctoral student mouna.rafei@umu.se

Linnéa’s research involves producing and testing catalyst material for PEMFC and AEMEC at Chalmers. Model electrodes are produced using state-of-the-art thin film deposition techniques, and their electrochemical properties are evaluated with RDE and EQCM measurements as well as in real devices. Furthermore, the catalyst materials are physically characterized with SEM/EDX, XPS and TEM etc. Currently, she is focusing on the degradation of Pt nanoparticles during real fuel cell operational conditions.

Linnéa Strandberg
Doctoral Student linnea.strandberg@chalmers.se

Triet is a doctoral student at the Centre for Analysis and Synthesis, at Lund University. His research in PUSH focuses on the molecular design, preparation and characterization of new cationic aromatic polymers for anion-exchange membranes. Monomers will be synthesized and polymerized by different methodologies to obtain mechanically strong membranes with high alkaline stability and hydroxide ion conductivity tailored for applications in water electrolysis.

Live Mølmen’s research focuses on materials reliability in PEM fuel cells, and her work is performed at RISE in Borås. Within PUSH, she is researching ex-situ characterization methods for coated metallic bipolar plate materials and the accelerated stress tests for single-cell PEMFCs.

Live Mølmen
Doctoral student live.molmen@ri.se