Ellsworth Bell
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellsworthbell/
Work Experience
Co-Founder
June 2025 – Present
Aqua-Cell Energy
Edmonton & Calgary AB, Toronto ON
Sr. Research Scientist: H2 PEM fuel cell & electrolyzer – Electrode testing and characterization
April 2021 – May 2025
Accelera by Cummins Inc.
Toronto ON
Graduate Researcher: Electrospun gas diffusion media for zinc-air batteries
Jan 2019 – Feb 2021
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON
Teaching Assistant: CHE101L, CHE120/NE111, CHE181, CHE180
May 2019 – Dec 2020
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON
Senior Field Engineer: Reservoir Evaluation
Aug 2014 – Jun 2018
Schlumberger — Wireline Evaluation Services
Tyler TX
Undergraduate Researcher: Surface modification of nanocrystalline cellulose
May – Sep 2013
Department of Chemical Engineering
McGill University, Montreal QC
Undergraduate Researcher: Oxidative pretreatment for pyrolysis biofuels
May – Sep 2012
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Maine, Orono ME
Laboratory Technician
May – Sep 2011
Department of Food Science/Human Nutrition
University of Maine, Orono ME
Education
M.A.Sc. Chemical Engineering 2019 to 2020
University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON, CA
B.Eng. Chemical Engineering 2010 to 2014
McGill University, Montreal QC, CA
Data Science Certificate 2025
University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON, CA
F.E. Exam, Chemical Engineering — Pass 2014
Publications
BEaTmap: Simplified Rigorous BET Analysis of Isothermal Adsorption Data, Ellsworth Bell, David Morris, Mohammad Amin Sadeghi, Jeff Gostick
Journal of Open Source Research Software, https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.403
- I wrote the code and the paper. This is my project, completed during my MASc program. Huge thanks to Jeff and Amin for pushing the paper across the finish line and maintaining the library.
A Near-Isotropic Proton-Conducting Porous Graphene Oxide Membrane, Serubbabel Sy, Gaopeng Jiang, Jing Zhang, Hadis Zarrin, Timothy Cumberland, Salah Abureden, Ellsworth Bell, Jeff Gostick, Aiping Yu, Zhongwei Chen
ACS Nano, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c04533
- I designed and performed the relative humidity experiments in this work.
Electrospinning as a route to advanced carbon fibre materials for selected low-temperature electrochemical devices: A review, Yue Wen, Matt D.R. Kok, Jorge Pavel Victoria Tafoya, Ana B. Jorge Sobrido, Ellsworth Bell, Jeff T. Gostick, Servann Herou, Philipp Schlee, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Dan J.L. Brett, Paul R. Shearing, Rhodri Jervis
Journal of Energy Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jechem.2020.11.014
- I wrote Section 5 – Metal air batteries and beyond, discussing recent research in electrospun materials for lithium and zinc air batteries.
Published Patents
Patents in which I had a significant contribution.
US20230246201A1
Additive application of microporous layer onto gas diffusion layer
US20240006628A1
Unit cell architecture for water management in a fuel cell
Last updated September 2025.