Congratulations to our colleague Giuseppe Sdanghi, winner of the Hydrogen Europe Research 2024 Young Scientist Award in the ‘Hydrogen Storage and Distribution’ category!
The award was presented to him at the European Hydrogen Week 2024, held in Brussels from 18 to 22 November, an event bringing together industry, political decision-makers, universities and stakeholders from across the hydrogen value chain.
Held annually, this prestigious competition is designed to reward promising young researchers and seeks to highlight their efforts in shaping the future of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, while encouraging their participation in Clean Hydrogen Partnership projects.
Since 2016, Giuseppe’s research has focused on the development of innovative, non-mechanical hydrogen compression technologies. As part of his doctoral thesis project conducted under the Lorraine University of Excellence programme (collaboration between the IJL and LEMTA), a hybrid compression system combining an electrochemical stage and an adsorption-desorption stage on high-porosity materials was designed and built from scratch. This system produced an outlet pressure of 700 bar in a single stage, without any mechanical parts. > read the article
Drawing on its experience in non-mechanical hydrogen compression, Giuseppe successfully met the challenge set by the European Space Agency to develop a prototype electrochemical compressor for aerospace applications. This system is capable of producing compressed hydrogen at 100 bar and with a very low humidity level, thanks to a coupling with a passive polymer membrane dryer. At the same time, Giuseppe continues to work on the development of compressors driven by the adsorption-desorption of hydrogen on porous materials, for which he was awarded an interdisciplinary Lorraine University of Excellence grant, enabling him to continue his thesis work in collaboration with the IJL. > read the article
Winner of the HyPSTAR Junior Professorship, he has published more than a dozen articles in high-impact journals, as well as a book chapter. He has also given several oral and poster presentations at international conferences.
Giuseppe is also involved in two Priority Research Programmes & Equipment – Decarbonated Hydrogen (PEPR-H2) DAEMONHYC and MATHYLDE, as well as in training projects linked to the development of new jobs in the hydrogen industry with GreenSkHY and AMPHY. > read the article
An active member of the CNRS Hydrogen Research Federation, his contributions to the field of hydrogen compression are invaluable, making him one of the few researchers in France dedicated to this area.
LEMTA and more particularly the entire ‘Hydrogen and electrochemical systems’ team are proud of him! 👏