Iryna Zenyuk

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Iryna Zenyuk is a visiting Humboldt Bessel fellow from the University of California Irvine. She is a professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering there, and her research focuses on low-temperature technologies, including fuel cells, electrolyzers, and hydrogen pumps. 

During her stay in the Cherevko group, she will study the dissolution and degradation of iridium in a proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer. 

 



September 2022 – Present Director, National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC)
July 2018 – June 2020 Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Samueli Development Chair
July 2018 – 2022 Associate Director, National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC)
2018 – 2021 Secondary Appointment, Tufts University
2015 – 2018 Assistant Professor, Tufts University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Spring 2018 Visiting Professor, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Grenoble, France Host: Prof. Marian Chatenet (Junior Faculty Sabbatical)
Spring 2018 Visiting Professor, Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of New Mexico Host: Dr. Rod Borup and Prof. P. Atanassov (Junior Faculty Sabbatical)
2014 – 2015 Postdoctorate Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA Energy Technologies Area, Electrochemical Technologies Group advisor: Dr. Adam Z. Weber
2013 Ph.D.,Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Thesis: "Interfaces in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells" Advisor: Prof. Shawn E. Litster
2011 M.S.,Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 B.S.,Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY


2024 UCI Henry Samueli School of Engineering Innovator of the Year
2023 US Frontiers of Engineering, National Academies of Engineering Speaker, Nokia Bell Labs, NJ
2022 US Frontiers of Engineering, National Academies of Engineering Symposium Organizer: “Hydrogen: A New ‘Universal’ Energy Carrier for the Carbon-Free Future?”, Amazon, Seattle
2022 UCI Henry Samueli School of Engineering Mid-Career Faculty Excellence in Research Award
2022 Hydrogen Economist Women in Hydrogen 50, selected as one of 10 women profiled in technology & innovation category
2021 - 2022 UCI Provost Leadership Academy participant
2021 UCI Beal Applied Innovations Early Career Innovator of the Year
2021 US Frontiers of Engineering, National Academies of Engineering Symposium participant
2021 Electrochemical Society (ECS) Energy Technology Division Supramaniam Srinivasan Young Investigator Award
2019 UCI Henry Samueli School of Engineering Early Career Faculty Excellence in Research Award
2017 - 2019 Electrochemical Society (ECS) -Toyota Young Investigator FellowshipScialog Fellow,Advanced Energy Storage,Research Corporation for Science AdvancementNSF CAREER Award, CBET
2017 Fraunhofer Award for Young Researchers, Interpore Society (Lectureship and Fellowship)
2017 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Summer Faculty Research Fellow (10 weeks appointment)
2013 Best Student Poster Award, 1st place (1st author). PEM Fuel Cell Symposium at the Fall 2013 Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (ECS), San Francisco, CA
2012 Poster selected for "Best of the Posters" talk session (5 out of 67 posters chosen) at Gordon Fuel Cells Research Conference (1st author)
2012 Best T.A. Award for Outstanding Teaching in Mechanical Engineering as voted by students, Carnegie Mellon University, Spring semester
2010, 2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention
2010 Best Poster Award, 1st place (1st author). Symposium of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, Penn State University
2004-2008 National Deans List, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
2004-2008 Presidential Scholarship, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
2004-2008 Presidential Scholarship, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
2007 Cordella Williams Memorial Award female scholar-athlete of the year, NYU
2007 James Hughes Jr. Award for promising student in mechanical engineering, NYU
2007-present Tau Beta Pi honors society