Hubert Gasteiger founded and leads the Chair of Technical Electrochemistry at the Technische Universität München (TUM). He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California Berkeley (1993), working with Elton Cairns, Phil Ross, and Nenad Marković. After postdoctoral studies at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Phil Ross and Nenad Marković (1994–1995), and at Ulm University with Jürgen Behm (1996–1998), Dr. Gasteiger joined the GM/Opel fuel cell program (Honeoye Falls, U.S.) as Technical Manager (1999–2007), leading the development of catalysts and membrane electrode assemblies. In 2009, he was Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Prof. Yang Shao-Horn, and in 2010 was appointed to his chair at TUM, where his group develops materials, electrode designs, and diagnostics for PEM fuel cells/electrolyzers and lithium ion batteries. Dr. Gasteiger has published 215 refereed articles (h-index 76), 15 book chapters, 39 patent applications/patents, and served as Editor-in-Chief for Wiley’s Handbook of Fuel Cells (2003 and 2009).
In 2004, Dr. Gasteiger received the International Society of Electrochemistry Klaus-Jürgen Vetter Award and was promoted to Technical Fellow at General Motors. He became a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society (ECS) in 2011, and in 2012 he received the Grove Medal. More recently, he received ECS’s Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division David C. Grahame Award (2015), Energy Technology Division Research Award (2017), and Vittorio De Nora Award (2020). In 2019, Dr. Gasteiger was listed as Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science). Since 2017, he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Union’s Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking.
