Dr. Tyler Westover is a Group Lead for the Idaho National Laboratory’s Hydrogen and Thermal Systems Group in the Hydrogen and Electrochemistry Department. Dr. Westover currently leads efforts at INL to demonstrate high temperature electrolysis systems at 30 to 250 kW scale. He also leads efforts within the Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) Program to develop and evaluate designs to dispatch electrical and thermal power from commercial nuclear power plants to produce hydrogen and other non-electric co-products. Previously, Dr. Westover led the Feedstock / Thermochemical Conversion Pathways Integration project at INL that studied ‘field-to-fleet’ implications of using different biomass feedstocks in  thermochemical conversion processes, including fast pyrolysis, catalytic fast pyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, hydrodeoxygenation, and gasification. Dr. Westover also previously led an effort at INL to model and improve biomass bulk solids feeding and handling performance. Before starting at INL, Dr. Westover performed post-doctoral research at Sandia National Laboratories studying thermal transport and breakdown of gallium nitride nanowires and carbon nanotubes. Dr. Westover holds a Ph.D from Purdue University and a B.S. degree from Brigham Young University, both in mechanical engineering.