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 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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Abu Pengwah

Abu Pengwah

2nd Year PhD candidate, Faculty of Engineering/ Department of ECSE

Abu Pengwah holds a Bachelor (Honours) in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering from Monash University. In his final year project at Monash, he worked under Dr Reza Razzaghi on a project called “Topology Identification of Low Voltage networks using Smart Meter Data”.

December 2020

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Milad Zarif Mansour

Milad Zarif Mansour

2nd Year PhD candidate, Faculty of Engineering/ Department of ECSE

Milad Zarif Mansour did a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, majoring in control systems (University of Tehran, Iran) and a Master in Electrical Engineering, majoring in power systems (Sharif University of Technology, Iran).

December 2020

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Si Phu Me

Si Phu Me

1st Year PhD candidate, Faculty of Engineering/ Department of ECSE

Si Phu Me has always wanted to become an engineer. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Bach Khoa University HCMUT, Vietnam) and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, specialised in Power Engineering and Power Electronics (Monash University, Australia).

December 2020

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Rakshitha Godahewa

Rakshitha Godahewa

2nd Year PhD candidate, Bsc (Hons) in Engineering

Rakshitha works on improving the accuracy of time series forecasting and using them to solve real-world forecasting problems including energy production forecasting and electricity demand forecasting. She also incorporates forecasting with simulation and energy optimisation tasks.

May 2020

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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

PhD 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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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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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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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 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 Dorota Bacal

Dr Dorota Bacal

3rd year PhD candidate, Chemical Engineering, Monash University

Dorota graduated her PhD at Monash University in March 2020. She was working within the Monash Energy Institute under the supervision of Professor Udo Bach. Her research was financially supported by CSIRO, ACAP and ARENA.

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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