Organising Committee

Professor Nejat Veziroglu (Conference Chairman)
International Association for Hydrogen Energy

Dr Andrew Dicks (LOC Chairman)
Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, University of Queensland

Dr David Rand (Vice Chairman)
Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Energy Technology

Mr Luigi Bonadio
Principal and Senior Consultant, Luigi Bonadio & Associates

Ms Sharon Denny
Principal Policy Officer, 13% Gas Scheme, Department of Energy

Dr Martin Gellender
Research Officer - Energy Innovation, Sustainable Industries Division, Environmental Protection Agency

Mr Robert Grant
Research and Development Coordinator, Business Development, Hydro Tasmania

Mr Colin Kinner
General Manager, Physical Sciences, qutbluebox Pty Ltd

Mr Simon Whitehouse
Policy Consultant, POSition - Policy Options and Solutions and Leader, Work Package 6, HyFLEET:CUTE, PE-Europe, Stuttgart

International Advisory Committee

Professor Xinhe Bao
Director of the Dahlian Institute for Chemical Physics, China

Dr Frano Barbir
Fuel Cell UNIDO-ICHET, Istanbul, Turkey

Dr Henk Barten
Millieu (NOVEM) BV, The Netherlands

Professor Robin Batterham
President of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Director of Technology, Rio Tinto Ltd. and former Australian Chief Scientist

Nick Beck
Director for Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Transportation Energy, Natural Resources, Canada

Bill Borthwick
DG Research, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Stephen Brydon
Clean Transportation Technology, Victoria, Canada

Dr Mauricio Cantao
LACTEC, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Professor Juergen Garche
ZSW-Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research, Baden Wuerttenberg, Germany

Dr David Hart
Head of Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research, Imperial College, London

Assoc. Professor Chan Siew Hwa
National Technological University, Singapore

Dr Jonathan Leaver
Engineering Research Manager, School of the Built Environment, Unitec New Zealand

Dr Jae Sung Lee
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea

Dr Tae-Hoon Lim
Head Fuel Cell Research Center, Korea Institute of Science & Technology

Dr Alan Lloyd
President of the International Council on Clean Transportation, Nevada, USA

Dr Andreas Luzzi
Institutsleiter/Director Institut fur Solartechnik (SPF), Switzerland

Professor Zi-Feng Ma
Vice President , China Association for Hydrogen Energy

Dr Zong Qiang Mao
Professor at Tsinghua University and Chair, China Association for Hydrogen Energy (CAHE)

Professor Tokio Ohta
Yokohama National University and board member of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, Japan

Dr Ken-Ichiro-OTA
Department of Energy and Safety Engineering, Yokohama National University, Japan

Professor Dominique Perreux
Universite of Franche-Comte, Beancon, France

Inigo Sabater
European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Professor Ashok Shukla
Indian Institute of Science, India

Professor Thorstein Sigfusson
Co-chair of the International Partnership for the Hydrogen (IPHE), Implementation and Liaison Committee, Iceland

Professor Dr Ennio Peres da Silva
Laboratório de Hidrogênio da UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

Chakaravarthy Sishtla
R&D Manager, Hydrogen Energy Systems, Gas Technology Institute, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA

Professor Lars Sjunnesson
Chairman of the European Hydrogen Association, Member of the Advisory Council, European Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform (HFP), Director R&D E.ON Sverige AB, Sweden

Dr Guiseppe Spazzafumo
University of Cassino, Avenza, Italy

Dr George Sverdrup
Hydrogen Technology Manager of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado

Dr. Johannes Toepler
Chairman, Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Association (DWV), Germany.

Dr Oystein Ulleberg
Institute for Energy Technology Energy Systems (IFE), Norway

Professor Nejat Veziroglu
International Association for Hydrogen Energy