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Marc Secanell is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada, and the director of the Energy Systems Design Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Victoria, Canada, in 2008 and 2004, respectively. He holds a B.Eng. degree (2002) from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech). In 2008, he was an Assistant Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation in Vancouver, Canada and in 2015-16 he was a visiting research scholar in the Energy Conversion Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US. His research interests are in the areas of:

a) analysis and computational design of electrochemical systems, such as polymer electrolyte fuel cells and electrolyzers;

b) fabrication and characterization of polymer electrolyte fuel cells and electrolyzers;

c) finite element analysis;

d) multidisciplinary design optimization.

His current research projects include the development of the open-source fuel cell simulation framework Fuel Cell Simulation Toolbox (OpenFCST), and the fabrication and characterization of low loading polymer electrolyte fuel cells and electrolyzers. He has authored over 50 journal articles, 30 conference proceedings and four book chapters receiving over 4,000 citations (h-index: 37 in Google Scholar). He has been an invited speaker at prestigious conferences such as the Electrochemical Society Meeting and the Gordon Research Conference in Fuel Cells. He has received several awards including University of Alberta, Faculty of Engineering Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching Awards (2022 and 2020, respectively), Excellence in Engineering Research Award (2018), the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) Early Accomplishment Award (2013) and a Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Canada Scholarship (2007). He was the co-chair of the 2022 Fuel Cell Gordon Research Conference.