Hydrogen Network-of-Networks – Collaborating with the Experts
Last week Dr. Jasna Jankovic and Terry Barber-Tournaud held an amazing workshop at the University of Connecticut, bringing together experts in hydrogen to shape up and plan for the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Global Hydrogen Network of Networks titled: Research and Education Accelerated by Connections in Clean Hydrogen (REACH2).
The mission of the REACH2 is to bring together existing successful networks of academic, research and industrial partners around the globe into a powerful coalition that will collaboratively accelerate and converge innovation in clean hydrogen technologies through sharing of knowledge, expertise and capabilities, facilitating scientific exchange, and developing the next generation diverse workforce and global leaders in clean energy. During this intensive 3-day workshop, our partners from Germany, Canada, France, South Africa, Mexico, Israel, Japan, Serbia, Italy, Turkey, US, and other parts of the world shared their core capabilities/facilities, their research focus areas and their research needs, and the ways how this network can help us all accelerate our progress. We had interactive planning activities and came up with the REACH2 network roadmap and goals, and many ideas how to work together more efficiently.
The event was filled with collaboration and intensive work, but also with shared meals and great social moments. We are thankful to our core participants: Ulf Groos, Michael Eikerling, @Marian Chatenet, Prof. Dr. Bruno G. Pollet, Lior Elbaz, Darija Susac, Sladjana Maslovara,PhD, Milica Marceta, Tatiana Romero-Castanon, Andrew Johnston, Robert Black, Carolin Klose, Kourosh Malek, and Titichai Navessin for sharing their expertise with us, to our industrial participants Kathy Ayers, Hanna Soucie, Alex Papandrew, Monica Dutta and Alan Young for sharing their important industrial perspectives, and many others connecting on-line. We also connected with Sawako Nakamae and Simon Stier from another great network, EU-Material Acceleration Platform. Thank you to co-PIs Terry Barber-Tournaud, Julia Valla and Xiao-Dong Zhou, and to our amazing REACH2 student/postdoc chapter volunteers: Alanna Gado, Sara Pedram, Mariah Batool, Ph.D., Al Kasani, and Oluwafemi Sanumi for all their help in organizing and running this workshop.
A special thank you to NSF-OISE and NSF-AccelNet for funding this amazing opportunity. This is just the beginning – more to come from us in the coming. Sharing some fun pictures here that capture the atmosphere at the workshop.
