Iryna Zenyuk

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Iryna V. Zenyuk
Born
Alma mater New York University
Known for Hydrogen technologies
Scientific career
Institutions University of California, Irvine
Tufts University
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Iryna Zenyuk is a Ukrainian-American scientist working on the development and deployment of renewable hydrogen energy technologies, and an international chess player. [1] [2] She is a professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California Irvine (UCI) and the director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at UCI.

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Education and career

Zenyuk was born in Ukraine [3] and emigrated to the US at age 15. She received a B.S in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering), a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University [4] where she worked on the fundamental understanding meso-scale interfacial transport phenomena and electric double layers in fuel cells. She then became a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2014 to 2015 studying water-management in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell using x-ray at the Advanced Light Source. From 2015 to 2018, she was an assistant professor at Tufts University, before joining University of California, Irvine in 2018 as an assistant professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department. She is also the director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at UCI. [5]

Zenyuk is an accomplished chess player, reaching an Elo score above 2450, and was ranked among the top 10 women players in the U.S. in 2012. [6]

At the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, she organized a fundraising to help Ukrainian scientists [7] called the UCI's Ukraine Emergency Response Fund, [8] and collected over $200,000. [9]

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References

  1. "WIM Iryna Zenyuk – Chess.com".
  2. "2012 U.S. Women's Chess Championships Interview with Iryna Zenyuk".
  3. "Helping at-risk scholars – UCI Magazine".
  4. "Iryna V Zenyuk – UCI Faculty profile".
  5. https://www.nfcrc.uci.edu/index.html
  6. "Helping at-risk scholars – UCI Magazine".
  7. "UCI professor hopes to offer sanctuary to Ukrainian scholars – CBS News".
  8. "Meeting her moment – Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers".
  9. "Helping at-risk scholars – UCI Magazine".
  10. "Iryna Zenyuk, International Board of Directors, NYU Polytechnic Alumni Association".