Capabilities in Renewables & Clean Technology
Dr Tom Hughes
Dr Tom Hughes is a Senior Lecturer in the Resources Program of the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University. Tom is interested new energy technologies that will help us to lower greenhouse gas emissions and transition to net zero emissions.
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Professor Ranjith Pathegama Gamage
Professor Ranjith is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. His main research interests are in sustainability, industry innovation, energy, and climate change, addressing UN Sustainability Goals 7, 9, and 13.
Professor Paul Webley
Professor Paul Webley is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Monash University and the Director of the Woodside Monash Energy Partnership. He received his and MScEng and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from MIT in 1986 and 1989.
Liquid Hydrogen Boil-Off
Associate Professor Alexandr Simonov
Associate Professor Alexandr N. Simonov is a physical chemist specialising in electrochemistry and electrocatalysis. Research in his group is aimed at understanding and designing new effective ways to generate and use renewable electricity for the sustainable energy and chemistry technologies.
His company, Jupiter Ionics, are Global Leaders in Green Ammonia
Monash Renewable Chemicals and Fuels Project
Professor Douglas MacFarlane
Professor Doug is a world-leading expert in green ammonia, electrochemistry and ionic liquids. An Australian Research Council Fellow and Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor at Monash University’s School of Chemistry, Professor Doug has received the Australian Academy of Science Craig Medal, and the Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation.
His company, Jupiter Ionics, are Global Leaders in Green Ammonia
Monash Renewable Chemicals and Fuels Project
Liam Turner
Liam Turner, a Fulbright Scholar, focused on bilateral hydrogen technology collaboration during his year-long academic and cultural exchange at Washington State University's HYPER Lab.
Professor Mainak Majumder
Professor Majumder is a nationally recognized leader in industry engagement & translational research on graphene. His track record & standing in this topical area is such that he has received ARC funding continually (LP11, LP14) and most recently, ARC Graphene Hub (IH16).
Professor Huanting Wang
Inventor and Senior Advisor, Professor Wang is an ARC Laureate Fellow within the Department of Chemical Engineering at Monash University. He is also the Director of the ARC Research Hub for Energy-Efficient Separation. Professor Haunting is also a founder of ElectaLith who are unlocking a green future with the cleanest, fastest and most efficient method of extracting and refining lithium
Associate Professor Behrooz Bahrani
Professor Barhani's research interests include control of power electronics systems, applications of power electronics in power and traction systems, and grid integration of renewable energy resources.
Power Engineering Advanced Research Laboratories
Professor Akshat Tanksale
Professor Akshat Tanksale earned his PhD in nanomaterials and chemical reactions from the University of Queensland in 2008. He then conducted postdoctoral research at UQ, focusing on biomass conversion and hydrogen storage. Since 2011, he has led Monash University's Catalysis for Green Chemicals group, specializing in heterogeneous catalysis for carbon dioxide and biomass conversion. He also serves as the Deputy Director of the ARC Research Hub for Carbon Utilisation and Recycling and as the Carbon Theme Leader for the Woodside Monash Energy Partnership.
Thermo Catalytic Converstion of CO2 to value Added Chemicals and Fuels
Dr Stuart Walsh
Stuart's research in computational geoscience and engineering ranges from the development of tightly-coupled geomechanical, hydrodynamic and geochemical multiscale models to continent-wide economic assessments of resource potential. This work has included economic assessments of large-scale energy and mineral projects, studies of integrated offshore field development, geothermal energy production, carbon-sequestration, and hydraulic fracturing operations, as well as the development of novel stimulation and drilling technologies.
SHIPPING GREEN COMMODITIES FROM AUSTRALIA TO THE WORLD
Professor David Hill
Professor Hill's research activities have been in energy and power systems, control systems, complex networks and systems, learning systems and stability analysis. His work is now mainly focussed on issues for future energy and power networks with the aim to bring science to accelerate the clean energy transition.
Associate Professor Qianbing Zhang
Director of Research, Associate Professor in Geomechanics Engineering Department of Civil Engineering Dr. Zhang is an Associate Professor in Geomechanics & Tunnelling Engineering, an ARC DECRA Fellow, a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) in Civil and Geotechnical Engineering, and a Fellow (FIEAust). He obtained his PhD from EPFL and has worked at EPFL and the University of Cambridge. Since 2016, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Journal Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology. Dr. Zhang is also a Committee Member for Standards Australia and ISO Standards, specifically ISO/TC 268 Sustainable Cities and Communities and Utility Tunnels and Digital Twin.
Professor Yolande Strengers
Yolande Strengers is a digital sociologist and human-computer interaction professor focused on the sustainability and inclusivity impacts of digital technologies, including AI. At Monash University, she leads the Energy Futures research program and serves as the inaugural Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion within the Faculty of Information Technology. She also holds the position of Associate Director (Consumers) at the Monash Energy Institute.
Dr. Kari Dahlgren
Dr. Kari Dahlgren is a Research Fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab. Kari is a social anthropologist and ethnographer interested in the social and ethical aspects of energy production and consumption in Australia. Her work is situated at the intersection of economic and environmental anthropology, with a particular interest in the anthropology of energy, climate change, and transition. In the context of increasing questions about the future of energy, Kari’s research speaks to the possibilities and limitations of imagining and crafting futures, as well as the ethical implications of change. She also makes theoretical contributions to the Anthropocene as a lived condition of precarity through ethnography of the social complexities and political concerns underlying the energy transition.
Professor Sarah Pink
Sarah is Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab, which undertakes critical interdisciplinary and international research into the social, cultural and experiential dimensions of the design, use and futures of new and emerging technologies. She has a joint appointment across the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture and the Faculty of Information Technology.
Dr Sarah Goodwin
Dr Sarah Goodwin is a Senior Lecturer within Monash's Embodied Visualisation research group. She is passionate about helping to harness data more effectively for a sustainable future. Using human-centric approaches her research seeks to create visual solutions to enable the exploration and communication of complex, multi-dimensional and geospatial data sets.
Sarah's research looks to drive innovative, practical and feasible solutions which can have immediate impact. Her recent projects include:
- investigating information overload in energy network control rooms: presenting recommendations for future control room designs (with Australian Energy Market Operator / AEMO)
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Associate Professor Markus Wagner
Markus Wagner is an Associate Professor at the Department of Data Science and AI, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia
Markus has been deeply passionate about sustainability since his high-school days… and still is. He serves as the first ever Sustainability Officer (since 2019) at the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, he founded the IEEE CIS Task Force on Computational Intelligence in the Energy Domain, and he is Associate Director for Smart Energy Systems at the Monash Energy Institute.
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Professor Bernd Meyer
Bernd Meyer is the Associate Dean of Sustainability in the Faculty of Information Technology and the Associate Director (Environment and Sustainability) of the Monash Data Futures Institute, an interdisciplinary AI and data science institute that brings together more than 300 researchers from all disciplines to work on applications in environmental sustainability and health. His previous roles at Monash include Deputy Dean of Education, Director of Education Outreach, and Associate Dean of Graduate Research.
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Professor Carsten Rudolph
Professor Carsten Rudolph is Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Information. His research concentrates on information security, formal methods, cryptographic protocols, security of machine learning and human aspects of security with a strong focus inter-disciplinary topics. He contributes to the development of secure solutions for different areas, such as digital health or future energy networks.
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Terrence Mak
Terrence W.K. Mak is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Data Science & AI of the Faculty of IT. He is located in the Optimisation disciple group under Prof. Peter Stuckey. He is an active member of the Monash Energy Institute and the Monash Data Futures Institute. He has recently started working on projects under the theme of Sustainable Informatics.
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Dr Hao Wang
Dr Wang's research interests are in applied machine learning and data analytics for smart grids and smart cities, optimization of power & energy systems, and business models and mechanism design for incentivizing participation of electric vehicles and prosumers.
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Professor Rob Raven
Professor Rob Raven is an interdisciplinary scholar, professor of sustainability transitions and Deputy Director (Research) at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute. He is also a visiting professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. He has published over 80 articles, three books, and seven special issues.