Dr. Bryan Pivovar is a Senior Research Fellow and Electrochemical Engineering and Materials Chemistry Group Manager in the Chemistry and Nano-Sciences Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO where he oversees NREL’s electrolysis and fuel cell and materials R&D.

He has been a pioneer in several areas of fuel cell development, taking on leadership roles and organizing workshops in the areas of subfreezing effects, alkaline membrane fuel cells (2006, 2011, 2016, and 2019), and renewable hydrogen at the gigaton scale (2019).

He is Director for a major US Department of Energy Consortium (since October 2020), H2NEW (Hydrogen (H2) from Next-generation Electrolyzers of Water), which focuses on addressing components, materials integration, and manufacturing R&D to enable manufacturable electrolyzers that meet required cost, durability and performance targets, simultaneously, in order to enable $2/kg hydrogen.

He received his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota and led fuel cell R&D at Los Alamos National Laboratory prior to joining NREL. He received the 2012 Tobias Young Investigator Award and the 2021 Energy Technology Division Research Award from The Electrochemical Society and has coauthored over 150 papers with over 10,000 citations in the general area of fuel cells and electrolysis. He also served as Chair of the 3rd International Conference on Electrolysis (ICE 2021) held in Golden, CO, USA, June 20-23, of 2022.