Michael Lewis is the Director of the Center for Electromechanics (CEM) at The University of Texas at Austin. CEM’s mission is to transition Power and Energy Solutions into Products and Students into Leaders by providing a collaborative R&D environment where academia, government, and industry can come together to develop system-level power and energy solutions.
Mr. Lewis has nearly 30 years of experience in advanced research and technology development. Over the past two decades, he has led CEM’s efforts in alternative fuels and renewable energy for transportation and stationary power applications, including hydrogen power and energy systems. His team has developed, built, and tested fuel cell hybrid vehicles and investigated other novel hydrogen energy system solutions, including hydrogen production, storage, and compression. Mr. Lewis currently runs the university’s Hydrogen ProtoHub, a first-of-its-kind hydrogen technology R&D facility, and is a co-investigator for the university’s role in the HyVelocity hydrogen hub.