Technion Seminar – Program

EIT Urban Mobility

Technion – Israel

December 7-9, 2020

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Day 1 – Monday December 7

Time (ISR) Speaker Topic/Title
10:00-10:15 Naomi Bitansky (Head, Technion Visitors Center, Israel) Technion Visitor Center introduction
10:15-11:00 Ohad Yaniv (t-hub, Technion, Israel) From dream to reality – how to open a start-up
11:00-11:50 Jan Van herle – organizer (EPFL, Switzerland) Different mobility technologies: a materials perspective
11:50-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:00 Brian Rosen (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Carbide catalyst supports for Fuel Cells
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Till Bachmann (EIFER-Institute, Germany) External costs – rationale, ways to their quantification and link to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
15:00-16:00 Lior Elbaz (Bar Ilan University, Israel) The design of PGM-free ORR catalysts for Fuel Cell, from molecular to MNCs and in between

 

Day 2 – Tuesday December 8

Time (ISR) Speaker Topic/Title
10:00-11:00 Tanja Kallio – organizer (Aalto, Finland) Ultra-low Pt electrocatalyst for HER in PEM electrolyzers: dream or reality?
11:00-11:50 Alex Schechter (Ariel University, Israel) New mechanistic and materials perspectives for oxygen reduction reaction for Fuel Cell applications
11:50-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:00 David Eisenberg (Technion, Israel) Designing hierarchical porosity in carbon electrodes
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Emily Soh (Technion, Israel) Public values in the socio-technical construction of autonomous vehicle futures: the case of Israel
14:30-15:00 Arunchander Asokan (Technion, Israel) Designing catalyst material for the effect of hydrogen utilization and its production
15:00-16:00 Miles Page (PO-Celltech, Israel) Overview of anion exchange membrane Fuel Cell (AEMFC) commercialization

 

Day 3 – Wednesday December 9

Time (ISR) Speaker Topic/Title
10:00-10:45 Matthew Suss (Technion, Israel) Fuel Cells for combined energy conversion and water desalination, and flow batteries for renewable energy storage
10:45-11:30 Neta Shomrat, Shikma Litmanovitz, Shulamit Hirsh (T3-Technion, Israel) Patents & start-ups
11:30-11:40 Coffee break
11:40-12:40 Ramesh Kumar Singh (Technion, Israel) Challenges in electric vehicles using Fuel Cell technology: future prospects
12:40-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Remo Schäppi (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Thermochemical fuel production from sunlight and air
15:00-15:40 Dario Dekel – organizer (Technion, Israel) AEMFC: From napkin’s ideas to start-up
15:40-15:00 Dario Dekel, Jan Van herle and Tanja Kallio (project organizers) Closing the seminar