Biography of Frano Barbir, Associate Editor, IJHE

Frano Barbir

 Dr. Frano Barbir is Professor-in-Residence at Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center, University of Connecticut. He has spent more than a half of his 25-year engineering career directly involved in development of PEM fuel cells and fuel cell systems. Before joining the University of Connecticut he was the Director of Fuel Cell Technology and Chief Scientist with Proton Energy Systems in Wallingford, CT, and before that he was a Vice President for Technology and Chief Scientist with Energy Partners, West Palm Beach, FL. He led the teams that designed and built fuel cells and fuel cell systems and put them in practical applications. At University of Connecticut's Mechanical Engineering Department he introduced a new course on Fuel Cell Engineering. He is the author or co-author of more than 140 publications on fuel cells and hydrogen energy, published in technical and scientific journals, books, encyclopedias and conference proceedings. He is the associate editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and the Subject Editor for the Journal's special issues on fuel cells. He holds a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from University of Miami, and M.Sc. in chemical engineering and Dipl.-Ing. in mechanical engineering, both from the University of Zagreb, Croatia.