Turgut M. Gür

Biography

He was formerly the co-founder, Director and CTO for Clean Coal Energy and subsequently, Direct Carbon Technologies that developed a proprietary carbon fuel cell technology for efficient conversion of coal, biomass and other solid fuels to electricity with carbon capture. Before that he was the CTO for H2onsite, where he led technology development for chemically assisted spontaneous production of hydrogen via steam electrolysis for distributed generation purposes aimed at the foreseen fuel cell vehicles market. He also served as the Director and Scientific Advisor for Electro-Oxidation Technologies, and helped develop industrial wastewater treatment technologies based on electrochemical remediation by selective reduction. He has served in leadership positions on the boards of professional societies as well as industrial and non-profit organizations. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of The Electrochemical Society. Previously, he served for 10 years on the Board of the International Society for Solid State Ionics, which is another leading global organization for scientists and researchers working in the general area of electrochemical energy conversion and storage. He was an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2002-2014), and the editor for Solid State Ionics Letters (1998- 2002). He was the lead organizer and chair of the 14th International Conference on Solid State Ionics (SSI-14) on Materials for Energy Conversion and Environment, Asilomar, California, June 22-27, 2003, and co-organizer of the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Symposia on Ionic and Mixed Conducting Ceramics (IMCC), at the 213th, 217th, 221st, and 225th meetings of The Electrochemical Society in 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014, respectively. He also was the lead organizer and chair of symposia on Electrochemical Utilization of Solid Fuels at the 220th and 225th meetings of The Electrochemical Society in 2011 and 2014, a co-organizer of the symposium on Electrochemical Synthesis of Fuels 3 in Chicago in May 2015, and most recently, the co-organizer of two symposia, namely, Ionic Conducting Thin Films and Membrane-based Electrochemical Separations at the 228th meeting of The Electrochemical Society in Phoenix, AZ, in October 2015. He has edited numerous conference transaction volumes and proceedings, and between 2012 and 2014 has served on the Editorial Advisory Board for ECS Transactions as well as the Senior Vice Chair of the High Temperature Materials (HTM) division of The Electrochemical Society. He is currently the Chair of the HTM division, an Advisory Board member of Interface magazine, and a member of the Symposia Planning Advisory Board of The Electrochemical Society.

Research Interest

Electrocatalysis, Surface kinetics, Oxide ceramics