PhD in PEM fuel cells with focus on electrocatalysis/materials science. Currently working as MEA specialist at Nedstack fuel cell technology in Arnhem, Netherlands.
My career started as a Chemical Engineer specialising in LCAs in Colombia, followed by a M.Sc. in Sustainable Energy Technologies at TU Delft . the Netherlands where I worked shortly on LCAs, specialised on the Photovoltaics line and also in Energy conversion and storage doing my thesis on the Hydrogen evolution reaction in Ni-Fe batteries. I followed with a PhD at TU Delft on PEM fuel cells. During these years I specialised on transport losses at the interfaces and also on non-PGM materials as electrocatalyst for Hydrogen oxidation and Oxygen reduction reactions. I shortly followed with a postdoc position on water electrolysis also using non-PGM materials. I currently work as the MEA specialist within NedStack fuel cell technology in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), 2019: "Manganese oxides as electrocatalysts for hydrogen oxidation and oxygen reduction reactions in PEMFCs".
International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists (IACIS), 2018: "Transport properties in PEM fuel cells - A non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach".
Rangel-Cárdenas, A. L., & Koper, G. J. M. (2017). Transport in proton exchange membranes for fuel cell applications—a systematic non-equilibrium approach. Materials, 10(6), 576.
Rangel-Cárdenas, A. L., Picken, S. J., & Koper, G. J. M. (2022). Anomalous water sorption kinetics in supported Nafion thin-films as membrane-electrode assemblies. Journal of Membrane Science, 650, 120368.
