Featured profiles

Professor Rob Hyndman

Professor Rob Hyndman

Head of the Department Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University

Forecasting – Solving problems linked to future uncertainties. “As we move to renewables and to local storage, it makes forecasting more difficult because the past is no longer a good guide to the future”.

May 2019

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Dr Sarah Goodwin

Dr Sarah Goodwin

Lecturer with the Immersive Analytics Lab in the Faculty of Information Technology

Energy visualisation solutions for complex, multi-dimensional and geospatial data sets. Sarah is interested in how we can use data effectively to better understand society for a smarter, cleaner and sustainable future.

December 2019

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Dr Larissa Nicholls

Dr Larissa Nicholls

Senior Research Fellow, Monash University

Larissa’s research includes smart-home, distributed electricity generation, and other digital technologies. Her focus is on the social dimensions of energy and the important role of energy in health and wellbeing. “How we produce, consume and integrate energy into our daily lives is central to a more sustainable future.”

April 2020

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Dr Christoph Bergmeir

Dr Christoph Bergmeir

Research Fellow, Dept. of Data Science and AI, Faculty of Information Technology

Christoph works on various applications of forecasting; retail forecasting, energy demand forecasting and renewable energy production forecasting. Sustainably integrating renewables into the national electricity grid requires precise forecasting of power output from wind and solar farms. That’s where more accurate and reliable five-minute ahead self-forecasting tools come handy.

April 2020

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Ali Meghdadi

Ali Meghdadi

3rd PhD candidate, Optimisation Lab, Faculty of Information Technology

Improving the security of the Electric Power System: Using Machine Learning to Predict Power System Stability and Security. Ali exploits the understanding of power system dynamics to increase the performance of data-driven security assessment of electrical grid operational planning approaches.

April 2020

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Dr Mahdokht Shaibani

Dr Mahdokht Shaibani

Research Fellow - Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Mahdokht works on lithium-sulphur battery (Li-S). In addition to better performance metrics, her team predicts a reduced cost factor for Li-S battery and a better ecological and ethical footprint compared to Li-ion.

March 2020

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Ms Shalini Kandasamy

Ms Shalini Kandasamy

Ph.D. Student Candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering

Production of methanol and ethylene glycol from biodiesel waste using an energy-efficient process. She came up with a vapour phase hydrogenolysis system that can produce methanol at low temperatures and ambient pressure.

January 2020

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Dr Colin Kang

Dr Colin Kang

Previous Monash University and ACES affiliate PhD student (recently submitted)

Colin is interested in ionic liquids as electrolytes, particularly for energy applications. The global context of his project involved the sustainable production of ammonia, as a readily transportable energy carrier.

December 2019

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A/Professor Akshat Tanksale

A/Professor Akshat Tanksale

Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Chemical Engineering

Akshat is interested in novel heterogeneous catalysts for conversion of biomass to fuels and green chemicals using nanomaterials to reduce human resilience on conventional fossil fuels.

December 2019

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Dr Diane Kraal

Dr Diane Kraal

Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Law & Taxation

Energy justice provides a decision – support tool for policy makers to bring into balance the competing aims of economics, politics and the environment, known as the energy trilemma.

July 2019

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Semini Wijekoon

Semini Wijekoon

Research Fellow, Optimisation, Faculty of IT, Monash University

We investigate the impact of incorporating flexibility in Australian NEM and how it would change investment decisions. Hopefully, this will aid to make robust investment decisions and to make sure a grid with 100% renewable energy is reliable and secure.

April 2020

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Mr Peter Lusis

Mr Peter Lusis

2nd year PhD candidate, Energy Systems Planning, Monash University

The role of solar energy in a net zero emission world. “Understand the network physical and operational limits, bring all this information into an optimisation model, consider relevant energy policies, electricity tariffs, as well as investment and maintenance costs”.

February 2019

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Dorota Bacall

Dorota Bacall

3rd year PhD candidate, Chemical Engineering, Monash University

From silicon to perovskite, a journey in the field of solar cells. Easily -manufactured, low-cost, efficient perovskite cells could revolutionise the solar energy industry. “The Udo Bach research group produces back-contact perovskite solar cells...”

March 2019

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Professor Sarah Pink

Professor Sarah Pink

Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University

From visual to design ethnography, how people experience technology. “People don't think of their activities as being energy-consuming”. Sarah investigates how people use today’s technology as a starting point to conceptualise the technologies of tomorrow.

March 2019

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Professor Patrick Olivier

Professor Patrick Olivier

Digital civics, how to address matter of social justice and inequality? “How digital technologies could promote more participation in designing and delivering public services?” He develops digital services to bridge the gap between government and citizens.

May 2019

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Mr Thomas Blesch

Mr Thomas Blesch

2nd year PhD candidate, MacFarlane Group, Monash University

Redox flow battery – a solution for renewable energy storage? “Redox flow batteries have the potential to be cheaper, safer and easier to scale and maintain than Lithium alternatives, especially in fire-prone Australia.”

April 2019

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Dominique McCollum Coy

Dominique McCollum Coy

1st year PhD candidate, Behaviour Change GRIP, Monash University

Empowering communities to join the energy transition. “Energy democratisation allows people to innovate in the transition”. She investigates community and household level adoption of solar panels and battery packs into a mini-gird.

April 2019

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A/Professor Yolande Strengers

A/Professor Yolande Strengers

Digital Technology and Society Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University

Changing digital lifestyles – forecasting to manage energy demand. “How do people experience and engage with new technologies? Understand householders and residential consumers better to inform energy forecasting…”

April 2019

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