

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 Rethink Climate, 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

Dr. Gail Hochachka
Research Management

Samuel Arulnathan, PEng
Project Management

Juan Pinzon, MEL
Project Management

Shao Dan Cen
Operations

Anna Biel, MEd
Operations
Researchers

Dr. Majid Gholami
Energy Systems

Dr. Jocelyn Chen
Energy Systems

Dr. Jing Wang
Energy Systems

Dr. Shashank Patlolla
Hydrogen
Students

Ivan Saunders (Ph.D.)
Energy Systems

Sergio Franco (MASc.)
Energy Systems

Lars Lange (MASc.)
Energy Systems
Alumni

Dr. Omar Hererra

Dr. Amir Sharafian

Dr. Neha

Jule Kreuznacht

Dr. Rajveer Brar

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.)

Dr. Rubina Akter

Abhishek Somanagoudar (MASc.)

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