Lior Elbaz

Lior Elbaz

Lior Elbaz is Full Professor for Electrocatalysis and Sustainable Energy in the Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is the head of the Israeli Fuel Cells Consortium (IFCC), composed of 17 leading Israeli labs, the Israeli representative to the International Energy Agency’s Advanced Fuel Cells Executive Committee, a member of the Israeli Presidential Climate Forum, and was recently appointed as the director of the hydrogen technologies center (H2Tech) in the framework of the National Institute for Sustainable Energy (NISE). He is the co-Founder of two Israeli start-up companies, developing reversible fuel cells and fuel cells for stationary power supply. Lior has been involved in the development of advanced catalysts for hydrogen technologies for the past 22 years, focusing on platinum group metal-free catalysts. He developed methodologies for synthesis of 3D covalent aerogel frameworks of catalysts, reaching ultra-high electrochemically active site densities, which allow overcoming some key challenges relating to this family of catalysts. He has also designed and utilized high surface area ceramic catalysts’ supports for increased system durability, and advanced electrochemical methods to allow in situ study of catalyst degradation and to decipher complex reactions in electrochemical devices.