Joseph J. Hartvigsen

Joseph Hartvigsen received the M.S. degree in chemical engineering from Iowa State University, Ames. He is the Senior Engineer in the solid-oxide fuel cells and Hydrogen Technologies group at Ceramatec, Inc. in Salt Lake City, UT. He has over 20 years of professional experience. He is currently Principal Investigator of a number of research projects relating to SOFC, fuel processing, and hydrogen production at Ceramatec. He has actively researched and published in the area of SOFC modeling since 1991. He is also active in the area of renewable energy. He previously worked in the defense aerospace industry at Boeing Military Airplanes, and Hercules Aerospace, performing analysis of solid rocket motors, hypersonic and stealth aircraft. He holds more than 12 patents and has published over 25 journals and conference papers.