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HyperSolar Hires Full Time Chief Technology Officer
HyperSolar Hires Full Time Chief Technology Officer.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nHyperSolar Hires Full Time Chief Technology Officer\n\nHyperSolar Hires Full Time Chief Technology Officer\n\n\nDr. Joun Lee Expected to Oversee University Collaboration and Spur Development of Renewable Hydrogen Production Process \n\n\n SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwired - May 10, 2016) - HyperSolar, Inc. (OTCQB: HYSR), the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water, announced today that it has hired Dr. Joun Lee as the Company's Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective June 1, 2016.Dr. Joun Lee is a chemical engineer with over 13 years of research experience developing nano/biomaterials, advanced materials characterization, and energy conversion and storage systems. Lee received her Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Riverside in 2009. As a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Dr. Lee studied application of novel one dimensional nanomaterials for photovoltaics, and artificial photosynthetic systems. Dr. Lee has extensive experience in device fabrication using cleanroom foundry techniques and evaluation of photovoltaic/photosynthetic performances. She has published over 20 articles in high-impact peer-reviewed journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Nano letters, Energy and environmental science etc.Dr. Lee will be tasked with overseeing and leading development of HyperSolar's innovative renewable hydrogen production technology. Her current position at the University of Iowa is ideal and paramount to day-to-day operations and advancement, as she can work directly with the scientific team at the University that has been responsible for many of the milestones achieved by the Company over the past year. By committing to the full-time hiring of Dr. Lee, HyperSolar expects to spur technological breakthroughs needed to develop a functional prototype that will demonstrate cost-efficient solar to hydrogen production.\"We are thrilled to add Dr. Joun Lee, an individual with significant hands-on experience in energy conversion and biomaterial development, to our team of scientists currently developing HyperSolar technology,\" said Tim Young, CEO of HyperSolar. \"We believe Dr. Lee's knowledge and oversight of laboratory processes will bolster not only the speed in which we continue to a...