Kashmir S. Gill, PEng, PhD
Industrial Technology Advisor
c/o Alberta Research Council
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Edmonton, AB, T6N 1E4

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E-mail: kashmir.gill@nrc.gc.ca

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University of Birmingham in 1968.  He then went on to study for a PhD. in Physical Metallurgy which he also obtained from Birmingham .  He spent several years as a post-doc. at the University of Leeds in the Ceramics Department before moving to Imperial College in London as Wolfson Research Fellow.

Prof. Kilner is head of the department of Materials at Imperial College and a former Dean of the Royal School of Mines.  He has been involved in research into ionic and mixed conducting ceramics for 30 years and has published over 250 papers in this and related fields of materials science.  Recently he was appointed as European Editor for the Journal Solid State Ionics.  He is the holder of a number of patents relating to fuel cells and gas separation devices and the co-founder of a successful spinout company CeresPower Ltd.

Prof. Kilner is primarily interested in studying the exchange and diffusion of oxygen in oxide ceramic materials for applications in devices such as fuel cells, oxygen separators and sensors, and has been instrumental in the development of isotopic exchange-SIMS techniques to study these phenomena.  He has been active in the development of the SIMS technique, particularly for the analysis of ceramic materials and has published articles on the fundamentals of ion beam solid interactions.  Much of his current work is now centred upon the development of the Intermediate Temperature Fuel Cell (ITSOFC) and improved understanding of surface and interfacial phenomena is crucial for further development of this device.

Prof. Kilner is the winner of the 2004 Schoenbein gold medal of the European Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Forum.

Biography of Josephine M. Hill

Josephine Hill is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary . She obtained her B.A.Sc. (1991) and M.A.Sc. (1992) in Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, worked for two years at Surface Science Western at the University of Western Ontario, and then did her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (1999). On returning to Canada , Dr. Hill completed a two-year NSERC post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Calgary before beginning her present permanent position. She currently holds an NSERC University Faculty Award and was a previous holder of an NSERC 1967 Science and Engineering Award. Dr. Hill’s research is in the area of catalysis with applications to fuel cells, heavy oil upgrading and green chemistry. Her research collaborators include Versa Power, Nova Chemicals, and Suncor Energy. Dr. Hill is a member of The Petroleum Society of CIM, CSChE, AIChE, ACS, and APEGGA.