Chemical and Environmental Engineering Group

Pablo A. García-Salaberri (PAGS) holds around 15 years of teaching and research experience on Fluid Mechanics and Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Devices, field in which he was started at the end of his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2009) at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). In 2015, PAGS concluded his Doctoral Thesis, supervised by Dr. Marcos Vera, which dealt with the multiphysics modeling of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) and the numerical characterization of diffusive properties of carbon-paper gas diffusion layers. During this period, PAGS performed a research stay at McGill University with Dr. Jeff T. Gostick. Subsequently, PAGS worked as Postdoctoral Researcher in the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and UC3M (6 months in each center), where he developed comprehensive models of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC). Between 2017-2019, PAGS worked as Assistant Professor at UC3M, and in 2019 he performed a Fulbright stay at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab together with Dr. Adam Z. Weber. Back in Spain, PAGS started a new position at UC3M as Visiting Professor, where he taught several Bachelor and Master Degree courses on Fluid Mechanics, and he continued his research activity on PEMFCs and other electrochemical devices, such as redox flow batteries, lithium-ion batteries and electrolyzers. In 2024, PAGS started his new stage at King Juan Carlos University (URJC), where he teaches courses related with Fluid Mechanics and Chemical Engineering, and he works actively in the modeling and characterization of electrochemical reactive processes and transport in porous media. In total, PAGS has published 46 scientific articles, 6 book chapters, more than 50 congress contributions, and participated in 7 projects as Principal Investigator.





Modeling the performance of electrosprayed catalyst layers in the cathode of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

García-Salaberri, P.A.; Duque, L.; Folgado, M.A.; Diaz-Alvarez, E.; Chaparro, A.M.


Modeling of a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell with a Hybrid Continuum/Discrete Formulation at the Rib/Channel Scale: Effect of Relative Humidity and Temperature on Performance and Two-Phase Transport

García-Salaberri, P.A.; Sánchez-Ramos, A.


Proton Exchange Membranes for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells: An Analysis of Perfluorosulfonic Acid and Aromatic Hydrocarbon Ionomers

García-Salaberri, P.A.


1D two-phase, non-isothermal modeling of a proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer: An optimization perspective

García-Salaberri, P.A.


Implications of inherent inhomogeneities in thin carbon fiber-based gas diffusion layers: A comparative modeling study

García-Salaberri, P.A.; Zenyuk, I.V.; Hwang, G.; Vera, M.; Weber, A.Z.; Gostick, J.T.


Analysis of representative elementary volume and through-plane regional characteristics of carbon-fiber papers: diffusivity, permeability and electrical/thermal conductivity

García-Salaberri, P.A.; Zenyuk, I.V.; Shum, A.D.; Hwang, G.; Vera, M.; Weber, A.Z.; Gostick, J.T.


Hydration and dehydration cycles in polymer electrolyte fuel cells operated with wet anode and dry cathode feed: A neutron imaging and modeling study

García-Salaberri, P.A.; García-Sánchez, D.; Boillat, P.; Vera, M.; Friedrich, K.A.


Effective diffusivity in partially-saturated carbon-fiber gas diffusion layers: Effect of local saturation and application to macroscopic continuum models

García-Salaberri, P.A.; Gostick, J.T.; Hwang, G.; Weber, A.Z.; Vera, M.


Effective diffusivity in partially-saturated carbon-fiber gas diffusion layers: Effect of through-plane saturation distribution

García-Salaberri, P.A.; Hwang, G.; Vera, M.; Weber, A.Z.; Gostick, J.T.


Nonlinear orthotropic model of the inhomogeneous assembly compression of PEM fuel cell gas diffusion layers

García-Salaberri, P.A.; Vera, M.; Zaera, R.


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