Dr. Ahmad El-Kharouf is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham and Manager of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Fuel Cells and their Fuels Research Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham. His research mainly focuses on the development of the next generation of automotive polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) through the optimization of components and materials, and the aim is to enable the operation of PEFCs at temperatures up to 120˚C and increase the stack volumetric and gravimetric power density.