Panagiotis Trogadas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at AUTh and Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL (University College London). He received his diploma in Chemical Engineering from National Technical University of Athens and PhD in Chemical Engineering with scholarship from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (Prof. Vijay Ramani) on the subject “Degradation mitigation in polymer electrolyte fuel cells”. He has extensive experience in the engineering of electrochemical devices for energy conversion and storage. Throughout his postdoctoral career, he worked in some of the foremost electrochemistry labs in the world (Georgia Institute of Technology (Prof. Tom Fuller), Technical University Berlin (Prof. Peter Strasser)).
During 2014-2024 he was working as Assistant Research Professor (tenured) in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Centre for Nature-Inspired Engineering (Prof. Marc-Olivier Coppens) at UCL. His research was based on the exploration of nature-inspired electrochemical components, devices and systems. The structure and function of human lung was used as a guide for the design of lung-inspired flow-fields for PEMFCs achieving uniform distribution of reactant across the catalysts layer and significantly increasing the performance of the PEMFC. The long-standing issue of flooding in PEMFCs at very high relative humidity (100% RH) was solved via thorough examination of the water drinking mechanism of specific lizards residing in the desert, which is based on passive water transport through guided capillary action. As a result, the lizard inspired flow-field based PEMFC demonstrates stable, flood-free performance at very high relative humidity. His research is published in high-impact journals and has received many awards.
He serves as Expert Reviewer in National Research Foundations (USA, UK, Switzerland, Germany, Hong Kong) and high-impact journals. He is also organizer of “Nature-inspired electrochemical systems” sessions at international conferences and delivered numerous keynote lectures on this topic.
Panagiotis Trogadas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at AUTh and Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL (University College London). He received his diploma in Chemical Engineering from National Technical University of Athens and PhD in Chemical Engineering with scholarship from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (Prof. Vijay Ramani) on the subject “Degradation mitigation in polymer electrolyte fuel cells”. He has extensive experience in the engineering of electrochemical devices for energy conversion and storage. Throughout his postdoctoral career, he worked in some of the foremost electrochemistry labs in the world (Georgia Institute of Technology (Prof. Tom Fuller), Technical University Berlin (Prof. Peter Strasser)).
During 2014-2024 he was working as Assistant Research Professor (tenured) in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Centre for Nature-Inspired Engineering (Prof. Marc-Olivier Coppens) at UCL. His research was based on the exploration of nature-inspired electrochemical components, devices and systems. The structure and function of human lung was used as a guide for the design of lung-inspired flow-fields for PEMFCs achieving uniform distribution of reactant across the catalysts layer and significantly increasing the performance of the PEMFC. The long-standing issue of flooding in PEMFCs at very high relative humidity (100% RH) was solved via thorough examination of the water drinking mechanism of specific lizards residing in the desert, which is based on passive water transport through guided capillary action. As a result, the lizard inspired flow-field based PEMFC demonstrates stable, flood-free performance at very high relative humidity. His research is published in high-impact journals and has received many awards.
He serves as Expert Reviewer in National Research Foundations (USA, UK, Switzerland, Germany, Hong Kong) and high-impact journals. He is also organizer of “Nature-inspired electrochemical systems” sessions at international conferences and delivered numerous keynote lectures on this topic.
National Technical University of Athens
Chemical Engineering
Diploma in Chemical Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Chemical Engineering
PhD in Chemical Engineering
Panagiotis Trogadas, Jason I. S. Cho, Lara Rasha, Xuekun Lu, Nikolay Kardjilov, Henning Markötter, Ingo Manke, Paul R. Shearing, Dan J. L. Brett and Marc-Olivier Coppens
Journal Papers
Linlin Xu, Panagiotis Trogadas, Shangwei Zhou, Shuxian Jiang, Yunsong Wu, Lara Rasha, Winfried Kockelmann, Jia Di Yang, Toby Neville, Rhodri Jervis, Dan J. L. Brett and Marc-Olivier Coppens
Journal Papers
Panagiotis Trogadas, Linlin Xu and Marc‐Olivier Coppens
Journal Papers
Panagiotis Trogadas and Marc-Olivier Coppens
Journal Papers
P. Trogadas, J. I. S. Cho, T. P. Neville, J. Marquis, B. Wu, D. J. L. Brett and M.-O. Coppens
Journal Papers
Georgia Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Researcher in Chemical Engineering
Technical University Berlin
Postdoctoral Researcher in Chemical Engineering
UCL (University College London)
Assistant Research Professor (tenured) in Chemical Engineering
UCL: CENG3005 Transport Phenomena II (Undergraduate)
UCL: ENGS102P Engineering Challenges (Undergraduate)
UCL: CENGM04P Nature Inspired Chemical Engineering (Postgraduate)
Nature-inspired device for the electrochemical reduction of CO2
Nature-inspired fuel cells
Fabrication of lung-inspired fuel cells using printed circuit boards
Nature-inspired electrochemical devices
Numerical simulation of CO2 electrochemical reduction flow cell with fractal flow fields
Nature-inspired strategy for design and realization of ultra-thin nanostructured OER catalyst layers
Hydrogen production with membraneless electrolyzers
Bio-inspired electrolyser networks for resilient, scalable hydrogen production
Synthesis, activity, and stability testing of supported Au11 and its alloys for heterogeneous reactions
Kidney-inspired ultra-filtration systems for water purification and bioseparation
Mass transfer within a reconstructed porous network
The morphological stability of supported metal nanoparticles in electrochemical systems