Iryna Zenyuk holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. She continued her studies at Carnegie Mellon University, where she earned M.S. and Ph.D in the group of Prof. Shawn Litster. Her graduate work focused on fundamental understanding meso-scale interfacial transport phenomena and electric double layers in fuel cells. Iryna was a postdoc at LBNL (Berkeley Lab) in Dr. Adam Weber’s group from 2014 to 2015 investigating water-management in PEFCs using x-ray CT and modeling. She joined Tufts University as an Assistant Professor from 2015-2018 and moved to UC Irvine in 2018. Currently, she is a Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at UCI. She is also the Director of the 24 year old center, National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC), where her mission is to accelerate the development and deployment of fuel cell technology and fuel cell systems.
Iryna has published more than 100 journal publications in electrochemical technologies area and have given more than 150 invited presentations. She also serves on Alumni Board for Tandon School of Engineering, New York University. Iryna is an Associate Editor of ACS Applied Energy Materials. She hopes to develop technologies to decarbonize difficult sectors, such as chemical manufacturing, aviation, shipping, long-haul transportation to reach net-zero emissions economy by 2050.
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