Dr Bruno G Pollet BSc(Hons) MSc PhD FRSC

 

Associate Director of the Centre for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research; Head of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Research Group

School of Chemical Engineering

Bruno Pollet

Contact details

Telephone +44 (0)7554116546

Email b.g.pollet@bham.ac.uk

School of Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

About

Bruno recently joined the University from Industry. He is an expert in the area of PEMFC and Electrochemical Engineering. He is currently responsible for the £1.3M DECC HFCCAT Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle project and PEMFC & MEA activities at the university.

He is also one of the Directors of the £5.5M UKRC Doctoral Training Centre in Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and their Applications. He has successfully implemented a Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Supply Chain (EPSRC project) within the West Midlands with currently 60 SMEs involved in the development and manufacturing of hydrogen and fuel cell components (http://www.hydrogen-wm-scratch.info/).

  • Head of PEM Fuel Cell Research Group
  • Associate Director of The Centre for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research
  • Visiting Professor Fuel Cell Nanomaterials Center, The University of Yamanashi (Japan)

Biography

 

He has worked for Samuel Banner Ltd (Banner Chemicals Group) and Albion Chemicals Ltd (now Brenntag (UK) Ltd) in Sales and Marketing, Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells Ltd (Johnson Matthey Plc) as Test Facility Scientist, Senior Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) Design Scientist and Programme Leader, SmartWater Europe Ltd as Research Manager and Coventry University as Head of Sonoelectrochemistry, Project Development Manager and Lecturer in Environmental & Physical Sciences. Bruno has been recently appointed member of the £6.5 Million Advantage West Midlands (AWM) Science City Hydrogen Energy Project Management Board.

He has also worked as an EPSRC and EU Research Fellow in the field of Fuel Cells and Electrochemiluminescence at the Liverpool Electrochemistry Group headed by Professor David J. Schiffrin. Bruno was awarded an Engineering Diploma in Chemistry and Material Sciences from the Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France), a BSc (Hons) in Applied Chemistry from Coventry University and an MSc in Analytical Chemistry from The University of Aberdeen.

He also gained his PhD in Physical Chemistry in the field of Electrochemistry (Sonochemistry & Sonoelectrochemistry) under the supervision of Professor J. Phil Lorimer at Coventry University. Bruno has published several publications and chapters in the field of Fuel Cells, Sonoelectochemistry and Sonochemistry.

Teaching

  • Operations and Delivery Director of the Doctoral Training Centre in Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and their Applications
  • Programme Director of the MRes & PhD with Integrated Studies in Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and their Applications

Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) components (PEM, Catalyst Layer, Gas Diffusion Layer etc) for PEMFC/DMFC applications
  • Electrochemistry, Electrochemical Engineering, Sonochemistry and Sonoelectrochemistry
  • Industrial Power Ultrasound and Sonoelectrochemical Engineering
  • Production and characterisation of nano-sized electrocatalysts in various ‘exotic’ surfactants and solvents e.g. SLES, Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (RTILs), Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) etc

Other activities

He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and Member of the:

He is a Committee Member of The Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) - Electrochemistry Technology Group.

Bruno is also Scientific Committee member of:

  • The Annual International Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, Birmingham, UK
  • The International Conference for Sustainable Energy Storage, Belfast, UK

Bruno is also Chair of the Biannual International Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Conference, Cancun, Mexico..

Expertise

Hydrogen energy; fuel cell technologies; low-cost, high-performing fuel cell systems for the automotive industry

Languages and other information

  • French
  • Spanish

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