Andrei Kulikovsky

Andrei Kulikovsky graduated from the Faculty of Theoretical and Experimental Physics of the Moscow Engineering-Physical Institute, one of the leading schools in physical sciences in the former USSR. In 1984, he obtained his PhD from the Institute for High Temperatures of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1998, he received the Doctor of Sciences (Research Professor) degree in physics and mathematics from the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University.

While working in Russia, his main research interests were in the field of modeling of gas discharge plasmas. In 1998, Andrei moved to the Forschungszentrum Juelich (Research Centre Juelich), Germany, where Alexei Kornyshev engaged him into modeling of fuel cells, cell components, and stacks. Over the past 15 years, Andrei has published more than 80 research papers in high-ranked electrochemical journals; most of these papers have a sole author. In 2010, he published a book "Analytical Modeling of Fuel Cells" (Elsevier), which was the first monograph on theory and modeling of fuel cells.

His current research interests include modeling of low-, intermediate-, and high-temperature fuel cells, catalyst layers, macroscopic modeling of aging processes and defects in cells, analytical study of the transport and kinetic processes in cells and stacks, and impedance spectroscopy of cells. Andrei's work has been focused on the development of simple analytical models, aiming at understanding the phenomena of interest.

In 2013 Andrei has been awarded the Alexander Kuznetsov Prize for Theoretical Electrochemistry and in 2015 the Schoenbein's medal of Honour in recognition of the distinguished contributions to the science and technology of fuel cells.