Thomas Zawodzinski is presently the Governor’s Chair in Electrical Energy Conversion and Storage, with appointments in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Dept. at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and at ORNL. He previously was the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Fuel Cells at Case Western Reserve University, Director of the Case Advanced Power Institute, and the founding Director of the Wright Fuel Cell Group. Dr. Zawodzinski is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and of the American Chemical Society Polymer Division. Throughout his career, Dr. Zawodzinski has played leadership roles in projects on fuel cell materials and systems, especially in the development of new polymeric membranes for automotive applications at elevated temperature and low relative humidity. He has made significant contributions in electro-catalysis, gas diffusion media and fuel cell durability, as well as in projects related to redox flow and metal-air batteries, electrochemical sensors, electro-responsive polymers, electro-separations and other applications of electrochemical technologies. He has published more than two hundred refereed papers, several book chapters and holds five patents.