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Dr Luis Fernando Arenas is a lecturer at the Energy Technology Group of the University of Southampton.
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- Electrochemical engineering
- Flow batteries for energy storage
- 3D printing of electrochemical reactors
- Design of porous electrodes
- Fuel cells and electrolysers
Current research
His current research interests include different types of flow batteries, 3D printing of electrochemical reactors, and the design of porous electrodes. He has significant expertise in fuel cells, computed tomography of materials, electrodeposition of various metals, and electroanalytical characterization of redox couples.
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Biography
Dr. Luis Fernando Arenas is a Lecturer in Energy Engineering at the University of Southampton, UK. He holds a BSc degree in Chemistry (UAdeC, 2010), a MSc degree in Chemical Technology (UAdeC, 2013), and a PhD in Electrochemical Engineering (University of Southampton, 2017). Dr. Arenas worked as a Research Fellow on PEM fuel cells and electrochemical hydrogen pumps at University of Southampton from 2017 to 2019. Later, he contracted for the development of electrodialysis flow batteries at INEEL, Mexico, and consulted for the chlor-alkali industry between 2019 and 2020. More recently, he received a Humboldt Research Fellowship to develop organic and metal-air flow batteries at Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, from 2021 to 2023. Afterwards, he was Research Manager at the ELCAT group of University of Antwerp, Belgium, from 2023 to 2025. Dr. Arenas is a member of ISE, ECS, SNI, SCI, and RSC, and serves as an early career representative at the Electrochemical Technology Group of the Society of Chemical Industry (UK). He was awarded the Schwäbisch Gmünd Prize in 2019 and an ISE Travel Award in 2022.
Prizes
- Schwäbisch Gmünd Prize (2019)
- ISE Travel Award (2022)
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