Shawn Gouws

Dr Shawn Gouws studied Chemistry at the Port Elizabeth Technikon (now Nelson Mandela University), Gqeberha, South Africa and graduated from DTech in 1999. He joined LEORR, Grenoble, France, in 2000 to complete a one-year post-doctoral fellowship under Dr Sylvie Chardon-Noblat. He then joined the late Prof Ben Zeelie's group at InnoVenton, Nelson Mandela University, researching process chemistry and electrocatalysts. He has published 15 articles in SCI journals, filled four patent applications, and written one book chapter. His research interest is electrocatalysis for PEM water electrolysers to produce green hydrogen.