Pierre Bénard (Ph.D.) is a professor of physics at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and director of the Hydrogen Research Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics from the Université de Sherbrooke and an M.Sc. in physics from the University of Toronto. He has written over 100 refereed papers. His research interests include the theoretical and numerical study of microporous adsorbents for hydrogen storage and purification (from materials to systems), thermodynamic modelling of storage systems and the study of issues related to the safe use of hydrogen and gaseous fuels using computational fluid dynamics and simplified models. He has been involved in the International Energy Agency’s Hydrogen Technology Collaboration Partnership (TCP) tasks on hydrogen storage and safety for several years. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of CQMF, the Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the NSERC Hydrogen Canada (H2Can) Strategic Research Network. Dr. Bénard is a member of the Réseau Québécois sur l’Énergie Intelligente and was until recently a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association. He is also a guest professor at the School of Automotive Engineering of Wuhan University of Technology. Dr. Bénard has been working in the field of hydrogen technologies since 1998.
In September 2023, he has organized the International Conference on Hydrogen Safety (ICHS 2023) to be held at the Québec City Convention Centre.
