AVL Fuel Cell Canada Inc.’s Post

🎉 We’ve got another career milestone to celebrate! Congratulations Amy Nelson for 25 years of service to the hydrogen and fuel cell sector! What Amy loves about her career (besides its length - and she said that, not us!) has been the tremendous opportunities that she was given to learn and innovate. "So many of my managers, mentors, and colleagues gave me freedom or the inspiration to ask questions and to experiment, even if it meant breaking things. Whether the experiments were failures or successes, I learned so much!" Affectionately known as the Freeze Start Queen, Amy makes no secret of the fact it’s her one true love when it comes to fuel cell development. When Amy worked at Ballard, she lobbied hard for a walk-in freezer to enable better tests. Be careful what you wish for! 🥶 She subsequently spent many hours carrying out tests inside a freezer, even through two pregnancies. "Freeze start is complex and unpredictable, which is what makes it such an interesting and challenging aspect of fuel cell technology development."   We are so grateful for Amy, not only for her technical smarts, but also for the ways she connects with others, and for her sense of adventure and fun! She’s not afraid to roll up her sleeves in the lab and has built a network that runs deep and wide, in and outside of the #H2FC industry. Her career is a source of inspiration, reminding us of the importance of embracing challenges, learning from failures, and building meaningful connections. Way to go, Amy! 🫶 #fuelcell #hydrogen #stackengineering #systemsengineering #engineeringingenuity #accelerateH2 #innovation #careerjourney #inspiration #AVL #reimaginingmotion

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Shanna Knights

Clean Technology, Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Industry Professional Engineer & Innovation Leader

1mo

Congratulations Amy! I'm glad I hired you a quarter of a century ago (yikes!)!!!

Arwed Niestroj

C-Level Technology Executive; Advisory Board Member

1mo

Haven't seen our F-CELL jewel for some time. Nice you joined our event back then.

Mike Lauritzen

Fuel Cell durability specialist - 26 yrs in technology development, failure mode understanding, accelerated stress tests, lifetime modeling and developing a high performing team.

1mo

Congratulations Amy!

Nicole Losehand

Development Engineer PEM System and Global Method Responsible SysRENG bei AVL List GmbH, Austria

1mo

Congrats Amy, thats a great achievement. Its a pleasure to work with you.

Tony Cochrane

Chief Commercial Officer at Nexeon Ltd.

1mo

Well done Amy! I am privileged to have shared part of that journey with you. Keep it up!

David Blekhman

Technical Director Hydrogen Research and Fueling Facility, Professor, Sustainable Energy and Transportation at California State University, Los Angeles Forbes Online Contributor: Heavy Duty Hydrogen and similar

4w

The picture should be from 2010 from their filming of the world eco tour series. They stopped by at Cal State LA as well. I should have taken a picture like that....

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Sabine Flanz

Lead Engineer PEM System Integration bei AVL

1mo

Who rocks? - Amy! Such a solid work the past years. Hard to find nowadays.

Markus Aberle

Managing Director at ACTC Aberle GmbH, Consultant and Executive Coach

1mo

Wow! How the time is passing. So we are about one year appart. Great to see you‘re still with passion to change the world.

Jasna Jankovic

Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Connecticut

1mo

Happy 25 years, Amy Nelson!!! Happy that we overlapped and even were office neighbors some of these years at AFCC!!! You rock!!!

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