Dr. Walter Mérida
Walter leads MéridaLabs. He began his career in clean technology working with Ballard Power Systems, British Gas Investments Canada, and universities more than twenty years ago. He was a founder and Board member for General Hydrogen Corporation, and he co-founded Innovative Breakthrough Energy Technologies, a company creation platform based in Vancouver.
He created the Natural Gas Futures research consortium, at UBC and the Transportation Futures Group at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Hydrogen Association, and the Climate Change Advisory Board for Toronto Dominion Insurance.
At UBC, Walter has served as director for the Clean Energy Research Centre, as Senior Advisor to UBC's President and Vice-Chancellor, as co-Chair of the Climate Emergency Taskforce, and as a delegate to COP meetings. He is currently the Associate Dean of Research and Industrial Partnerships in the Faculty of Applied Science.
Associates & Staff
Dr. Paolo Marcazzan
Research Management
Anna Biel, MEd
Operations
Samuel Arulnathan, PEng
Project Management
Juan Pinzon, MEL
Project Management
Researchers
Dr. Shashank Patlolla
Hydrogen
Dr. Rajveer Brar
Energy Systems
Dr. Majid Gholami
Energy Systems
Dr. Jocelyn Chen
Energy Systems
Dr. Rubina Akter
Energy Systems
Dr. Jing Wang
Energy Systems
Students
Ivan Saunders (Ph.D.)
Energy Systems
Abhishek Somanagoudar (MASc.)
Energy Systems
Sergio Franco (MASc.)
Energy Systems
Alumni
Dr. Omar Hererra
Dr. Amir Sharafian
Dr. Neha
Jule Kreuznacht
Dr. Gail Hochachka
Lena Buehre (Ph.D.)
Kyle Katsu
Dr. Zhihao Wang
Dr. Janfizza Bukhari
Dr. Tory Borsboom
William Guo
Liao Wang
Dr. Julián Fernández
Jing Lin (MASc)
Jane Dong
Ricky Parmar
Annesha Devi
Miguel León (MASc)
Pegah Zarei (MASc)
Ezgi Kisa (MASc)
Dr. Rita Onolemhemhen
Dr. Thomas Holm
Dr. Marta Moreno
Alex Hsieh
Dr. Hoda Talebian
Matthew Palmer
Shabab Khan
Owen Guo
Jacques Marais
Angelina Berger
Catalina Ospina
Hadyan Ramadhan
Anish Karnik
Trishank Sharma
Bryan Kung
Olivia Foster
Elvis Cai
Veronika Krumova
Tung Nguyen
Dr. Jesús Díaz Real
Vincent Roy
Francisco Rentería
Pacifique Ineza
Dr. Jean Boucher
Dr. Zainul Abdin
Calum Mckenzie
Nhi Nguyen
Pranjal Goel
Jack Hou
Iram Malik
Guillermina Peragallo
Caroline Giacomin
Dr. Rasoul Asaee
Xu Liu
Rigoberto Miranda Felix
Alice Casagrande
Dr. Umer
Marco Signifredi
Natalie Stubb (Ph.D.)
Dr. Luyang Hou
Andrew Medgyesi (MEL)
Kevin Wei
Dr. Md Hujjatul Islam
Alexander McLeod
Madhav Kapoor (BSc.)
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