Clean Energy Research Centre
Providing safe, widespread, and equitable access to sustainable energy is one of the key challenges of our time. The Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) hosts world-leading researchers who see this challenge as an opportunity to help future generations inherit a better world.
Our interdisciplinary program brings together innovators from many departments, including the Faculty of Applied Science, the Faculty of Science, and the Sauder School of Business.
We also actively seek local and global collaboration with industry, academia and all levels of government.
Campus
Vancouver
Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Bi, Xiaotao | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomass and Bioenergy; Multiphase Chemical Reactors; Fluidization; Particle technology; Electrostatics of Powders; Life Cycle Analysis; Green Engineering; Industrial Symbiosis; Fuel Cells Water Management |
| Bizzotto, Dan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electrochemical Systems; Surface Characterization; Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Layers; Sensors and Devices; Electrochemical and Fuel Cells; Electrochemistry; interfacial analysis; biosensors; spectroelectrochemistry; electrocatalysis; self assembled monolayers; fluorescence microscopy |
| Dipple, Gregory | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | carbon sequestration, geologic fluid flow, mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions |
| Ellis, Naoko | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Chemical Processes; CO2 capture and utilization; multiphase systems; thermochemical conversion of biomass; Interdisciplinary teaching and learning |
| Englezos, Peter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Carbon capture engineering; Natural gas hydrates and other clathrates: science, engineering and novel applications; CO2 capture & storage; Novel materials from forest bio-resources, High-value papermaking |
| Gopaluni, Bhushan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Modelling and experiment design, identification for control |
| Green, Sheldon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fluid Mechanics; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; building ventilation; railroads; papermaking |
| Gyenge, Elod Lajos | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electrochemical engineering, fuel cells, batteries, electrodes |
| Kirchen, Patrick | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Thermochemical Energy Conversion, Combustion, Internal Combustion Engines, Ion Transport Membranes, Emissions, Fuel Injection |
| Lim, Choon Jim | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomass and fossil fuels, Spouted bed, Gas-particle system hydrodynamics, heat transfer, Hydrogen production |
| Madden, John | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Functional and Intelligent Materials; artificial muscle; wearables; smart materials; electronic skin; supercapacitors; electrochemical devices; medical devices |
| Madiseh, Ali | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mining engineering; Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation; Heat and mass transfer operations; energy systems; Renewable energy systems; Energy storage; Energy decarbonization; Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer |
| Merida-Donis, Walter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clean energy, Electrochemical energy conversion, Thermodynamics, Low carbon fuels, Fuel cells and hydrogen |
| Meyboom, Annalisa | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Transportation Infrastructure and Public Space; use of structural behaviour algorithms in the generation of architectural form |
| Michelson, David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | wireless communications, Propagation and channel modeling, low profile antenna design, wireless communication system performance, EMI/EMC |
| Mohseni, Madjid | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Drinking Water; Chemical Pollutants; Used Water; Clean Technologies; Drinking water quality and treatment; Advanced oxidation; UV based water purification and treatment; Water re-use; Electrochemical water treatment processes |
| Olson, James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Application of Physics and Fluid Mechanics to Problems Associated with the Pulp and Paper Industry, Mechanical Energy Reduction in Mechanical Pulping |
| Ordonez, Martin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Energy systems, renewable energy, wind power, solar power, battery systems, fuel cells, electric vehicles, smart grid. |
| Rogak, Steven | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Aerosols (their properties, strategies to minimize their creation and reducing aerosol concentrations where people spend most of their time |
| Saddler, John | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biotechnology, microbiology |
| Sayed, Tarek | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | transportation engineering, Transportation, Full Bayes safety models, Automated safety analysis using computer vision techniques, Safety evaluations, Traffic conflicts techniques, Pedestrian modeling, and ITS |
| Smith, Kevin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fossil Fuels; Biomass (Energy); Chemical Processes; Applied catalysis |
| Taghipour, Fariborz | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clean Technologies; Solar and Wind Energy; Drinking Water; solar fuels; Artificial Photosynthetic Systems; UV Photoreactors; UV-LED Reactors; UV Microplasma; Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical Reactors; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) |
| Tansey, James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Ethics of new and emerging technologies, Emerging markets and institutions for carbon trading, Social determinants of health, GM crops and animals |
| Trajano, Heather | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomass (Energy); Wood; Pulp and Paper; Biorefining; Biochemicals; Biomass extractives recovery and utilization; catalysis; Hemicellulose; Pretreatment; Kinetics |
| Tran, Martino | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | systems science, predictive modelling and simulation for understanding and tackling societal challenges in energy and sustainability |
| Wilkinson, David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electrochemistry, electrocatalysis, electrochemical power sources, advanced electrolysis,; hydrogen production and storage; waste water and drinking water treatment; solar fuels; carbon dioxide conversion; clean and sustainable energy and water |
| Zimmerman, Naomi | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | development and application of real-world-based tools to quickly and quantitatively assess the impact of our policy and technology decisions on air pollution and climate outcomes, and to use the knowledge gained to support better environmental policy planning; air quality |