Biography
Prof. John W. Sheffield
Prof. John W. Sheffield
Purdue University, USA
Biography: 
Dr. John W. Sheffield joined Purdue University in 2015. He also holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology. He has a broad base of experience in energy technologies. He has served as one of the founding associate directors at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies (UNIDO-ICHET) during their first two years of operation in 2005-2006. For more than forty years, he has served as an editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. In August 2014, he completed a two-year assignment as a principal consultant at DNV GL - Energy supporting the evaluation, measurement and verification of energy efficiency programs. In 2019, he became the President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, having previously served as the Executive Vice President. He has also served as a part-time Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi'an, China working with the School of Energy and Power Engineering on hydrogen energy technologies and teaching in the annual International Summer School offered by the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering. Recently, he was appointed a member of the Advisory Board of the "H2 JRP - Hydrogen Joint Research Platform" for 2022-2024. In April 2022, he was selected for the 2022 Outstanding Leadership in Globalization Award from Purdue University.