Senior Consultant: Dr. I. Engin Türe
Dr. Türe has nearly forty years of experience in the field of renewable and hydrogen energy based technologies. A physicist by training, his early interests were in semiconductor device applications where he was one of the early pioneers in the fabrication of solid state radiation detectors in the Turkish Atomic Energy Commission. He has worked at a number of academic centres in the UK and as a group leader in the prestigious GEC Hirst Research Centre. On his return to Turkey, he established the Department of Energy in the Marmara Research Centre of the Turkish Scientific and Research Council (TÜBİTAK) and served as its Director. Subsequently, Dr. Türe taught in several universities and consulted on energy and hydrogen matters. In 2005, he started working for the Centre as Associate Director in charge of scientific and technical projects, was the Centre's Director from 1 May 2007 to January 2008 and was appointed Senior Scientific Director on 1 February 2008.
Senior Consultant: Dr. Frano Barbir
Prof. Dr. Frano Barbir is Senior Consultant to UNIDO International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies. He has been actively involved in fuel cell technology R&D, engineering and applications, since 1989 working in the U.S. in both industry (Energy Partners, Proton Energy Systems) and academia (University of Miami, University of Connecticut). He has led many R&D projects on fuel cell development sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Army, Ford Motor Company, 3M Company, etc. He joined the International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies in 2004 and was Associate Director for Science and Technologies until January 2008. He has authored and/or co-authored more than 150 papers on hydrogen and fuel cells published in scientific and technical journals, books, encyclopedias, and conference proceedings, including 7 U.S. patents on various aspects fuel cell stack and system design and operation. He is the author of the book PEM Fuel Cells: Theory and Practice, published by Elsevier/Academic Press in 2005. He is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, responsible for the fuel cell issues, and he serves on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Hydrogen Energy.
