NFCRC - Key Persons


Ashok Rao

Job Titles:
  • Chief Scientist

Jeff S. Wojciechowski

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Associate Director
  • Manager

Jeffrey Reed

Job Titles:
  • Chief Scientist / Renewable Fuels and Energy

Katrina Fritz

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Lori Schell

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Michelle Mendez

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing Manager, Payroll / Personnel Manager

Patti Klumper

Job Titles:
  • Senior Finance Analyst

Prof. Donald Dabdub


Prof. Faryar Jabbari

Job Titles:
  • Controls

Prof. Iryna Zenyuk

Job Titles:
  • Director, NFCRC / Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Prof. Jack Brouwer

Job Titles:
  • Director Emeritus, NFCRC / Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Prof. Jakub Kupecki

Job Titles:
  • Systems

Prof. Plamen Atanassov


Prof. Scott Samuelsen - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founding Director

Prof. Steven Davis

Job Titles:
  • Earth System Science

Prof. Yun Wang


Robert Flores

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist / Engineering Science

Steven W. Lee

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member
  • Manager, Network Systems

William Gary

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff Member

William J. Keese

Job Titles:
  • California Energy Commission Chair
"We are pleased that the UC Irvine National Fuel Cell Research Center has the commitment of many public and private partners in developing a technology that will help meet the needs of the competitive energy market," said California Energy Commission Chair William J. Keese. "We strongly support the technology transfer and education elements, which are fully consistent with the Energy Commission's goal of expanding consumer choice."

Yu Morimoto

Job Titles:
  • Chief Scientist