Deóis Ua Cearnaigh

Deóis Ua Cearnaigh has over 25 years of renewable energy science experience: from biofuels and photovoltaics to fuel cells and wind turbines, and from chemistry to commerce. Motivated by the challenge to balance the economics of producing industrial hydrogen, he slept in the lab and dedicated his life to the renewable fuel solution. He studied and conducted research in biofuels at New Mexico Tech, sugar metabolism at Yale, and nuclear fuel cycle and biodiesel at Los Alamos National Lab where he formulated an early model for converting renewable energy to cost-efficient fuel. He went on to study electrochemistry as well as wind energy engineering and economics at Texas Tech. This is when he discovered a path to intermittency and invented Aeon Blue’s reactor.

D.O’C. is a National Science Foundation Building Bridges Fellow and he holds an MSc in Electrocatalysis/Sonochemistry, an MSc in Biofuels, a PhD-ABD in Chemistry, an MBA in Energy Commerce, and certificates in wind energy and solid oxide fuel cells.