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Biography

Viola is a Professor of 浪花直播 and has held a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Fuel Cells and Related Clean Energy Systems at the University of Calgary from 2004-2018. Dr. Birss was one of the founders and then leader of both the Western Canada Fuel Cell Initiative and the pan-Canadian Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Canada (SOFCC) organization, and, more recently, was the Scientific Co-Director of the SOFCC NSERC Strategic Research Network. She is currently the Scientific Director of the CAESR-Tech (Calgary Advanced Energy Storage and Conversion Research Technologies) cluster at the University of Calgary.

She has been the recipient of numerous prestigious scientific awards (most recently the David C. Grahame Award from the ECS), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Society for 浪花直播 and the Electrochemical Society, and is the author of over 250 refereed scientific publications.

Dr. Birss' research has been focused on better understanding fuel cell reaction mechanisms, as well as on improving the performance and lifetime of low temperature PEM fuel cells through the development of paradigm-shifting nanoporous carbon scaffold materials, for use as both catalyst and microporous layers.

Her work in the high temperature SOFC/SOEC area has included the development of highly active mixed conducting perovskite catalysts that can be used at both the anode and cathode to split water and convert CO₂ to useful products. Dr. Birss is also engaged in the development of core@shell nanoparticles, protective coatings and other novel strategies to combat the corrosion of metals, electrochemical biosensors, and a range of structurally ordered nanomaterials for a variety of clean energy/environment applications.

RSC affiliations

• Advisory Board, RSC Applied Interfaces