BPI Workshop by Dr. Kourosh Malek

TITLE

Succeeding with Scale-up of Cost-competitive Materials for Clean Technologies

LOCATION: CHBE #202, 2360 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4

ABOUT THE EVENT

As the world transitions towards a sustainable future, discovering and mobilizing high-performance materials for clean technologies becomes a crucial aspect. This workshop introduces frameworks for materials intelligence, fabrication cost analysis, and scale-up strategies, demonstrating how integrating data-driven frameworks with cost modelling can optimize efforts and investment in developing new materials for a green economy.

AGENDA

• Materials intelligence: connecting property space, application space, and performance matrices
• Technology development matrix
• Techno-economic cost assessment
• Business intelligence for assessing commercial viability of new materials: use cases
• Q & A

*Light refreshments will be provided

This workshop is part of BPI’s Accelerating Technology Readiness program to support BPI researchers to accelerate their technology towards impact.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr. Malek has 20+ years of extensive and direct leadership positions in technical research, RD&D, product development, and commercialization of new materials and systems within the cleantech sector. With a primary focus on adopting technologies for accelerating discovery and integration of advanced materials and components, he has led development of several pioneering analysis tools and practical frameworks for assessing technology readiness, technology development matrix, techno-economic, market evaluation, early commercialization, socio-economic, and environmental impacts of adopting advanced clean technologies. He is currently serving as program manager for a German-Canadian Materials Acceleration Centre, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany. He has been the director at Blue Analytics Inc., commercializing its proprietary enterprise & business intelligence engine. Previously, he was a program technical leader in energy storage at the National Research Council of Canada in Vancouver. He has been leading multi-years Canadian energy storage studies and techno-economic assessments for grid-scale energy storage technologies, including managing several major projects to monitor and assess existing and future publicly funded grid-storage demonstration projects across Canada. Prior to that, he has been a program manager for a major collaborative program on next generation bus fuel cells under Automotive Partnership Canada and in partnership with universities and Ballard Power Systems. He holds PhD and MBA, specialized in the management of technologies and electrochemical energy materials & processes.