Jack Brouwer

Director, Clean Energy Institute, UC Irvine

Jack Brouwer is a Professor, Chancellor’s Fellow of Mechanical and Aerospace, Civil and Environmental, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and the Director of the Clean Energy Institute at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Professor Brouwer is an energy system dynamics expert with research interests in renewable energy systems; dynamic simulation and control; energy system thermodynamics, design, and integration; electrochemical conversion devices and systems such as fuel cells, electrolyzers and batteries; hydrogen production, storage and conversion systems; hydrogen transmission, distribution, and dispensing; and electrochemical reactions with concurrent heat, mass and momentum transfer.

Before joining UCI, Dr. Brouwer was on the faculty at the University of Utah, a senior engineer at Reaction Engineering International, and a staff scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. Prof. Brouwer obtained his M.S. and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UCI and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Post-Doc in Chemical Engineering at MIT.