Mirela Atanasiu is the Head of Unit of Operations and Communication of the Clean Hydrogen Partnership since 2016 (which has taken over the predecessor Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, FCH JU), a Public-Private Partnership between European Commission and the European Industry (Hydrogen Europe) and Research Community (Hydrogen Europe Research). Until June 2024 and for over a year, she has also acted as interim-Executive Director, ensuring the kick-start of new JU activities and continuity of the partnership.

Previously, for more than 12 years she was a Senior Project Manager and Research Programme Officer in the Joint Undertaking and European Commission (Directorate Research and Innovation/Energy), following on a background experience as researcher in the Energy sector in Romania.

She holds an M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering/Materials Science and an M.Sc. in Economics/Cybernetics and Economic Analysis.

Jack Brouwer’s research focuses upon high-temperature electrochemical dynamics and integrated renewable energy systems including fuel cells, electrolyzers, batteries, gas turbines, and solar and wind power.

Brouwer is recognized for research and development of the world’s first integrated hybrid solid oxide fuel cell gas turbine system, the world’s first renewable high temperature fuel cell system for tri-generation of hydrogen, heat, and power, the world’s first direct DC powering of data center servers with a fuel cell, and the U.S. first renewable power-to-gas hydrogen injection into the natural gas system and subsequent conversion to decarbonized electricity in a combined cycle power plant.

Brouwer received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. From 1993 to 1997, he served as a research assistant professor at the University of Utah and was a member of the technical staff at Reaction Engineering International.

He came to UC Irvine in 1997 as associate director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC), concurrently holding appointments as lecturer, assistant and then associate adjunct professor. He was named assistant professor in the summer of 2011 and became full professor in the summer of 2017.

Luigi Crema is the director of the Center for Sustainable Energy at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, in Trento. A physicist, he deals with issues connected with energy transition and the development of technology solutions for hydrogen and batteries, the two main pillars of the Center with about 60 between researchers, innovators, and technicians. He is involved in 2 IPCEI projects, on batteries in EuBatIn and on hydrogen technologies in Hy2Tech, with the ongoing realization of a technology infrastructure of industrial relevance in Rovereto, close by Trento, in theHydrogen Pole of the Province of Trento.

He is President of Hydrogen Europe Research giving support to the realization and implementation of the programme of the Clean Hydrogen Partnership as a member of the Governing Board together with European Commission and Hydrogen Europe industry.

He is the vice-president of the Italian Hydrogen Association, supporting the role of hydrogen at the national scale and through the engagement of national institutions.

Among other roles, he is a founder and a member of the National Academy of Engineering andTechnology and involved in the BEPA, the European Battery Partnership.

For over twenty years, he has been involved in innovation between research and the industrial sector, with experience on how to transform development areas into viable solutions and economic value. He supported the creation and growth of Start-up such as Green Energy Storage, where he is a member of the scientific committee,and Unitec. He was involved in more than 40 project initiatives on the energy sector and in more than 100 scientific papers.

Pere Margalef holds an MSc and a PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace engineering from the University of California Irvine,where he worked as a student researcher from 2005 to 2011. His PhD dissertation topic was on the tri-generation of electricity, heat and hydrogen with high-temperature fuel cells with Professor Scott Samuelsen and Professor Jack Brouwer.

In 2012, Pere joined FuelCell Energy (FCE) to push advanced technologies to market. Among his greatest successes is the development of the Port of Long Beach Tri-Gen Toyota project, which generates 2.3 MW of power, 1,200 kg/day of green hydrogen, heat and water from biogas.

In 2016, Pere returned to his native Spain as Vice President of Business Development Europe to develop FCE’sEuropean market strategy for fuel cells, electrolyzers, biogasreformer/electrolyzers and carbon capture technologies.

In 2021, Pere joined Snam to build an ecosystem to perform advanced research, development and innovation in hydrogen technologies. Pere and his team of talented engineers and scientists have: (1) established Snam’s Research and Technology Center (RTC), a global network of universities and research centers through which Snam is developing and advancing disruptive technologies; (2) built Snam’s Decarbonization Sandbox Program (DSP) to test and demonstrate hydrogen technologies at operational environments; (3) created the HyAccelerator, the first corporate program to accelerate innovative startups within the decarbonization space (i.e., hydrogen, CCSU and LDES).

Pere is also a Governing Board member of the Clean Hydrogen Partnership, Chair of the Technical Committees and TC2 Leader of Hydrogen Europe.

Dr. Julie MOUGIN is Deputy Director for hydrogen technologies at CEA since 2023, in charge of H2 production, storage and fuel cells. She is also board member of Hydrogen Europe Research and of France Hydrogene, Chair of OECD NEA H2-Val Working group and co-chair of the H2 Implementation Working Group of the Set Plan.

Graduated from Grenoble Institute of Technology in Electrochemistry, she obtained a PhD in Materials Science and began her carrier in industry in the field of materials for energy and automotive.

She has been working in the field of H2 for 21 years at CEA, first as a researcher and afterwards as head of laboratory and department, and supervising techno-economic and life-cycle assessment activities for new energies technologies. She is coordinator of several EU projects, contributes to EU roadmaps, review of national H2 programs, and standards. Julie Mougin is author/co-author of more than 65 peer-reviewed papers (180 in total), 5 book chapters and 9 patents (H-index 28).