Robert Cincotta
Hydrogen Energy Research Center
Assistant Research Professional, Chemical Engineering
Contact Information
rcincot1@uwyo.edu
Robert Cincotta is an Assistant Research Professional in the Hydrogen Energy Research Center at the School of Energy Resources.
Joining the SER. team in 2024, he has spent the early portion of his
SER position as a guest scientist at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) to utilize their facilities for this research.
Over the course of ten years, he earned both his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wyoming, focusing his studies on alternative uses for coal.
Cincotta has produced research on carbon engineering, the carbon core, critical mineral and rare earth elements (CORE-CM) projects within SER, and ultimately wrote his dissertation on the production of carbon nanofibers from coal-derived polymers for use as electrodes in energy storage devices, and the use of machine learning techniques to inform optimization of this process.
While working as a graduate research assistant throughout his studies, cincotta presented his findings at multiple conference and symposia, published two peer-reviewed manuscripts from his work with more forthcoming. Additionally, he served as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate Heat and Mass Transfer course and for a graduate Reaction Kinetics course.
