Iryna Zenyuk is a Ukrainian-American scientist working on the development and deployment of renewable hydrogen energy technologies, and an international chess player.
and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University[4] where she worked on the fundamental understanding meso-scale interfacial transport phenomena and electric double layers in fuel cells.
She then became a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2014 to 2015 studying water-management in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell using x-ray at the Advanced Light Source.
From 2015 to 2018, she was an assistant professor at Tufts University, before joining University of California, Irvine in 2018 as an assistant professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department.
She is also the director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at UCI.