Featured profiles

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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Semini Wijekoon

Semini Wijekoon

3rd year PhD candidate, Optimisation, Faculty of IT, Monash University

Operational flexibility for a reliable and renewable grid. “How do we change the existing grid from coal-gas to wind-solar based generation? It is likely to require investment in flexibility measures and battery storage.”

May 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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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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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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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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