Takemasa Hojo

Head of MEA division at 未势能源FTXT Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
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  • Taiwanese Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Chinese (Mandarin) Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English Full professional proficiency
  • Japanese Professional working proficiency

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Ivan Tolj

Excellent researcher and engineer with strong background in fuel cell R&D. He is hard working and motivated scientist with beyond state-of-the-art vision and approach.

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Experience

    • China
    • Renewable Energy Equipment Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Head of MEA division
      • Apr 2022 - Present

      High performance MEA product line for FCV. High performance MEA product line for FCV.

    • Italy
    • Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Fuel Cell Asia Project Leader
      • Sep 2020 - Apr 2022

    • Business Development Specialist
      • Jan 2020 - Sep 2020

    • Scientist
      • Jan 2018 - Jan 2020

    • Researcher
      • Jul 2017 - Dec 2017

    • Research Services
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Government-Industry-Academia collaboration researcher → Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
      • Nov 2013 - Jun 2017

      ・Participating 2 NEDO (Japanese government) projects and 5 industry collaboration projects. ・Designed GDL with VGCF-MPL. / Increases of 118% performance at 0.8 Acm-2 compare to commercial GDL (SGL 24BC). ・Developing in-situ quantitative liquid water analysis technology within the cell and MEA components. ・Participating 2 NEDO (Japanese government) projects and 5 industry collaboration projects. ・Designed GDL with VGCF-MPL. / Increases of 118% performance at 0.8 Acm-2 compare to commercial GDL (SGL 24BC). ・Developing in-situ quantitative liquid water analysis technology within the cell and MEA components.

  • HySA/Systems
    • Cape Town, South Africa
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
      • Sep 2012 - Sep 2013

      ・Participating 7 projects includes 6 prototyping system products. Participating 2 stack/system reverse engineering. ・Optimizing electrophoretic deposition ink formula for HT-PEMFC MEAs. / Increases performance 73%. ・Innovating dual catalyst layer for HT-PEMFC MEAs. / Increases 16.1% performance. ・Investigating Pt loading for HT-PEMFC MEAs by ultrasonic spray coating. / Reduce 30% cathode Pt loading. ・Participating 7 projects includes 6 prototyping system products. Participating 2 stack/system reverse engineering. ・Optimizing electrophoretic deposition ink formula for HT-PEMFC MEAs. / Increases performance 73%. ・Innovating dual catalyst layer for HT-PEMFC MEAs. / Increases 16.1% performance. ・Investigating Pt loading for HT-PEMFC MEAs by ultrasonic spray coating. / Reduce 30% cathode Pt loading.

    • Taiwan
    • Higher Education
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Research assistant → Researcher → Postdoc researcher and lecturer
      • Jul 2006 - Aug 2012

      ・Managing 15 master students for multiple projects. ・Participating 4 stack design and fabrication. Participating 4 stack/system reverse engineering. ・Developing CCMs with ultrasonic spray coating technique. / Reduces Pt loading ca. 60%. ・Co-developing non-Pt MEA with homemade Ru85Se15 catalyst. ・Co-developing Ru85Se15/MWCNTs catalyst. / Improve 32% performance and durability compare to Ru85Se15/C. ・Innovating GDL/MPL recipe and fabrication methods. / Improve 35% performance compare to commercial GDL (SGL 10BC). ・Innovating multi-segment foam flow field. / Improve 70% performance and gets Taiwan patent. ・Innovating novel structure with gradient hydrophobicity of flow field. / Improve 130% performance and stability. ・Developing Nafion/PTFE composite membrane and MEA. ・Assisting foreigner visiting student research projects. / 6 PhD. Students and 2 masters students. ・Lecturing hydrogen and fuel cell course. Awards  Honorable Mention, 34th Taiwan Polymer Symposium, 2011  Merit Prize for Oral Session in International Conference on Clean Energy (ICCE-2011), 2011  Yuan Ze Academic Silver Medal, 2011  Yu-Ziang Scholarship 2007 - 2011

    • Technical support
      • Jun 2009 - May 2010

      Project Objective: Pre-Planned for National Testing and Safety Certification Program on Hydrogen Power and Fuel Cell product.  Tutored fuel cell knowledge and technical terms to other staffs and study safety regulations. / Educates non-scientific staff to fully understand fuel cell and able to compare each safety regulations.  Visited Japan Electrical Manufacturers' Association (JEMA), Japan Electrical Safety & Environment Technology Laboratories (JET), Clean energy research center and Fuel cell nanomaterials center (University of Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan) and Fuel cell EXPO (Tokyo, Japan, 2010).

Education

  • Yuan-Ze University
    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering
    2007 - 2011
  • Yuan-Ze University
    Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering and Material Science
    2003 - 2007

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