Ms. Shanna Knights is Manager of Research at Ballard Power Systems. Her fuel cell research areas during seventeen years at Ballard include durability, reliability, performance, and operational behavior, and span several fuel cell applications, including stationary power generation, cogeneration, bus, light duty automotive, back-up power, and materials handling. She is responsible for both internal research activities and significant collaboration with universities, research institutions and industry. Her group at Ballard conducts R&D for the fuel cell components of membrane, anode and cathode catalyst layers, gas diffusion layers, and for the integration of the MEA components, with the objective of developing next generation products with reduced cost, and increased performance, functionality, and durability. She is holder of 13 Ballard patents, with an additional 5 pending.
Prior to joining Ballard, Ms. Knights worked as research engineer and project manager for BC Research for 7 years in the areas of waste management and chemical process and reaction engineering.
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