Panagiotis
Trogadas
Assistant Professor

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School of Chemistry

Short CV Presentation

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.

Short CV Presentation

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.

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School of Chemistry

Studies

2000 - 2005

National Technical University of Athens

Chemical Engineering

Diploma in Chemical Engineering

2005 - 2009

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

Chemical Engineering

PhD in Chemical Engineering

Publications

2024
A nature-inspired solution for water management in flow fields for electrochemical devices

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

2024
A Scalable and Robust Water Management Strategy for PEMFCs: Operando Electrothermal Mapping and Neutron Imaging Study

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

2024
From Biomimicking to Bioinspired Design of Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction to C1 Products

Panagiotis Trogadas, Linlin Xu and Marc‐Olivier Coppens

Journal Papers

2020
Nature-inspired electrocatalysts and devices for energy conversion

Panagiotis Trogadas and Marc-Olivier Coppens

Journal Papers

2017
A lung-inspired approach to scalable and robust fuel cell design

P. Trogadas, J. I. S. Cho, T. P. Neville, J. Marquis, B. Wu, D. J. L. Brett and M.-O. Coppens

Journal Papers

Research Interests

Nature-inspired electrocatalysts and electrochemical devices Scale-up of electrochemical devices Pulsed electrolysis (H2O and CO2) Additive manufacturing Machine learning Bioinspired leaching and transformation for battery recycling Electrochemical biosensors for medical diagnosis Water purification

Professional Experience

2010 - 2012

Georgia Institute of Technology

Postdoctoral Researcher in Chemical Engineering

2012 - 2014

Technical University Berlin

Postdoctoral Researcher in Chemical Engineering

2014 - 2024

UCL (University College London)

Assistant Research Professor (tenured) in Chemical Engineering

Courses

2015 - 2020

UCL: CENG3005 Transport Phenomena II (Undergraduate)

2016 - 2017

UCL: ENGS102P Engineering Challenges (Undergraduate)

2016 - 2023

UCL: CENGM04P Nature Inspired Chemical Engineering (Postgraduate)

Projects

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