MONASH ENERGY INSTITUTE

MONASH ENERGY PROFILE 2020

monash.edu/energy-institute 2020 is a year like no other in recent history. CONTENTS Over the summer, bushfires engulfed many parts of Australia, only to be followed by COVID-19. On the one hand, the bushfires filled our skies with smoke, causing the air quality to reach unprecedented poor

quality, while also mass releasing CO2 from the burning of over 12.6 million hectares of bushland. The fire- affected areas concurrently experienced major electricity blackouts and reliability issues, requiring the use 1 Welcome of expensive backup power to provide essential services. Meanwhile, the confinement of people at home during COVID-19 saw the empty streets in most global cities result in pollution levels plummeting, yielding 3 About us blue skies and fresh air in many countries for the first time in years. Concurrently, the average household energy usage spiked causing major concerns about ongoing energy affordability, while oil markets 4 Our leadership team crashed due to geopolitical conflict to provide the cheapest petrol prices in over a decade. 6 Initiatives At face value, this scenario is chaotic. It presents a series of events that could not have been readily predicted. Nonetheless, it provides a timely reminder of the intrinsic volatility that people are exposed to 12 Research during major world crises. In such events, access to energy, whether it is in the form of electricity or a fuel, is an essential service to ensure the wellbeing of our people and continuing operation of our businesses, 20 ARC Centres transport and industry sectors. However, not all energy vectors are created equal. The intrinsic link between energy, health, environment and society, suggests that these must be considered in unison. For that reason, developing a global energy system that can respond to unfolding uncertainties, while also 22 Facilities decarbonising our energy vectors is one of the greatest challenges that we as a humanity face.

25 Energy researchers Researchers from across Monash University are working to solve this challenge. The Australian Research Council funded Centres of Excellence in Exciton Science (ACEx), Future Low-Energy Electronic Technologies (FLEET) and Electromaterial Science (ACES), and the ARC Research Hub for Energy- efficient Separation (EESEP) demonstrate our world leading capabilities in fundamental research and technical innovation. Meanwhile, the Emerging Technologies Research Lab brings to view our strength in social, cultural and experiential dimensions of design, use and futures in energy. Altogether, our energy community comprises over 170 experts from across Monash University.

The Monash Energy Institute was established to build on this community and its strengths to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable energy future through impactful interdisciplinary research and education programs. The Institute has technical expertise across five thematic areas: materials and devices, energy resources, smart energy systems, markets and policy, and consumers. We are focussed on building research depth across each of these, while developing interdisciplinary programs and strong global partnerships to enable impact from our research. This is demonstrated through the numerous energy activities that we have enabled, including the Net Zero Initiative, Grid Innovation Hub, and the Woodside Monash Energy Partnership.

The Monash Energy Profile introduces the Monash energy ecosystem, showcasing flagship programs and initiatives, while introducing our researchers who are passionately working to create a more sustainable energy future.

Professor Jacek J. Jasieniak Director, Monash Energy Institute 2 MONASH ENERGY PROFILE MONASH ENERGY PROFILE 1 ABOUT THE MONASH ENERGY INSTITUTE

The Monash Energy Institute brings top minds in energy together to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable energy future through impactful interdisciplinary research and education programs for Monash University and its trusted partners.

Monash Energy Institute builds on a community of over 170 researchers actively working in the broad field of energy and the Monash University’s world leading capabilities in areas such as economics, energy materials, and data science to deliver local and global impact.

Monash Energy Institute has enabled the development of several key interdisciplinary initiatives including the United Nations Momentum for Change award winning Net Zero Initiative, the Grid Innovation Hub, RACE for 2030, and the Woodside Monash Energy Partnership.

Trusted industry partnerships underpin Monash Energy Institute’s vision to bring people together to solve global energy problems. We welcome opportunities to discuss partnership pathways for interdisciplinary research, engagement with our vibrant student community, and professional development for industry professionals.

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Professor Jacek Jasieniak Shreejan Pandey Professor Sarah Pink

Director, Monash Energy Institute General Manager Associate Director Faculty of Engineering Monash Energy Institute Co-Theme Leader of Consumers Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture Faculty of Information Technology

Associate Professor Yolande Strengers Professor Mainak Majumder Associate Professor Ariel Liebman

Associate Director Associate Director Associate Director Co-Theme Leader of Consumers Theme Leader of Materials and Devices Theme Leader of Smart Energy Systems Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Information Technology Faculty of Information Technology

Scott Ferraro Dr Roger Dargaville Associate Professor Guillaume Roger

Buildings and Property Associate Director Associate Director Program Director Net Zero Initiative Theme Leader of Energy Resources Theme Leader of Markets and Policy Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Business and Economics

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NET ZERO INITIATIVE GRID INNOVATION HUB

Monash was the first Australian university to commit The Grid Innovation Hub at Monash University is fostering to an energy reduction target and we’re proud to partnerships between industry and Monash University to be a leader in taking action on climate change by undertake high quality interdisciplinary research to address transitioning to a 100% renewably powered future, increasingly complex challenges faced by the Australian removing carbon emissions from our Australian energy sector. campuses by 2030. Our strategy encompasses five key pillars: energy efficiency measures, campus The program brings together industry, innovators, and electrification, deployment of on-site and off-site researchers to explore the following overarching questions renewable energy, building Net Zero ready buildings in the following three key areas. and an onsite sustainable Microgrid, and addressing our residual emissions through offsetting. National Energy Systems Net Zero Precincts How can the system be planned for economic efficiency, reliability and security on the way towards 100% An ambitious opportunity to develop a research, renewables? education and training program using the Net Zero Initiative and Monash Technology Precinct How do you (we) manage the operation of the bulk energy as a living lab to generate transformative solutions system with large penetration of variable renewables and accelerating the decarbonisation of our securely? urban energy systems. We will develop and test a coordinated transition approach for decarbonising Regional and Local Energy Systems our cities starting at the precinct level through smart energy systems, net zero mobility and How do you (we) integrate new digital technologies, small liveable built environments. The Net Zero Precincts scale storage while absorbing large amounts for rooftop program will utilise interdisciplinary research to solar energy with existing investment? support industry transformation that brings together Monash’s capabilities across technological, financial, What is the mix of grid-side and customer side behavioural and policy changes. technologies needed in the distribution grid and how do you formulate policies and markets to economically adapt 2018 Momentum for Change Lighthouse award these grids to the rapid investments by customers in storage and distrubuted energy resources (DER)? In 2015, at COP21, countries had to agree on the Paris Agreement guidelines for a fair and equitable Customers and their Energy Systems transition to a low carbon economy powered by renewable energy technologies. Monash was How can the electricity sector work collaboratively with awarded the Momentum for Change award in customers as they become empowered prosumers 2018 recognising our sustainability leadership enabled by the distributed energy revolution? status. The Net Zero Initiative is focusing on UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 (Affordable and What is the effect of customer choice and empowerment? Clean Energy), SDG11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), SDG12 (Responsible Consumption For more information visit and Production) and SDG13 (Climate Action) and monash.edu/energy-institute/grid-innovation-hub SDG17 (Partnerships for the Goals).

A living laboratory At the Monash Clayton campus, researchers are already tracking energy use behaviours of various stakeholders, learning how to optimise energy use and further reduce energy consumption through new dynamic control technologies and real time distributed energy-use visualisation systems.

For more information visit monash.edu/net-zero-initiative

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RELIABLE AFFORDABLE CLEAN ENERGY WOODSIDE MONASH ENERGY PARTNERSHIP

(RACE) FOR 2030 Woodside and Monash University have joined forces to develop innovative responses to real-world challenges Reliable Affordable Clean Energy (RACE) for 2030 is through a long-term research partnership. Launched in funded by the Australian Government Cooperative July 2019, the Woodside Monash Energy Partnership is a Research Centre (CRC) Program and will be led by natural extension of a successful relationship that began the University of Technology Sydney. It is the largest with Woodside FutureLab at Monash in 2016. CRC bid in the history of the CRC program. As a major research partnership between Monash Two of the grand challenges facing humans today University and Woodside Energy to progress energy are mitigating climate change and eradicating solutions for a lower carbon future, the research and poverty. One of the United Nations’ Sustainable development initiatives are aligned to the United Nations Development Goals is to ensure access to Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy leadership and novel technologies in the hydrogen value for all. RACE for 2030 CRC, record-breaking chain and carbon abatement. investment by the Federal Government, is an opportunity for our Monash researchers to work To deliver on the aspirations of the Woodside Monash on various energy-driven challenges to help the Energy Partnership, the research objectives are structured transition to a more sustainable future. into three focused research themes: New Energy Technologies, Carbon Capture, Conversion and Utilisation, A cross-disciplinary partnership between the and Energy Leadership. Faculty of Information Technology (IT), Faculty of Engineering, Monash Business School, the Spanning fundamental technical and non-technical Monash Grid Innovation Hub, Monash Sustainable research all the way through to pilot and demonstration Development Institute and the Monash Energy projects, the research objectives will deliver solutions for Institute, Monash University will be the lead Victorian a lower carbon ecosystem that is competitive with current research institution for the CRC, facilitating relevant markets, scalable for bulk energy transport, value-adding connections for partnering organisations and through the creation of carbon products, and able to industry to amplify Monash’s research impact in the integrate with energy policies to enable a successful energy sector. transition. Monash University will also play a crucial role in the By bringing together leading researchers and industry RACE for Networks research program, which is one from across Monash, and beyond, into a collaboration of the four research pillars of the CRC program, with Woodside expertise, the Woodside Monash Energy giving Monash a leading role in driving over $40 Partnership fosters an innovative approach to collaborative million of funding for energy networks related problem solving that will accelerate the energy transition. research projects. For more information visit For more information visit monash.edu/woodside racefor2030.net.au

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MONASH MICROGRID

Monash is developing a Microgrid at the Clayton campus. The microgrid will receive and store energy from various renewable energy sources. A precinct scale microgrid platform is being developed as part of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) funded Smart Energy City project. This platform will enable control of distributed energy resources, including a minimum of 1 MW of solar panels, 20 buildings, electric vehicle charging stations and 1 MWh of energy storage. These assets will be monitored in real-time, optimised to ensure efficient and reliable supply of electricity and connected to a transactive market which will allow each building to buy and sell electricity, and optimise energy use in response to pricing signals.

The microgrid will enable control of when and how to use our energy, to effectively reduce demand and strain on the network during peak times. It will also help stabilise the wider grid, making it more resilient. This will benefit the broader community, especially during extreme weather events.

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MATERIALS AND DEVICES Graphene is an exceptional two-dimensional material with superior electronic conductivity, flexibility and Monash University is a global leader in energy conversion strength, which may as well be the material of the materials and devices. future. Researchers from the ARC Research Hub on Graphene Enabled Industry Transformation are working Our researchers are working on a diversity of materials on graphene-based technologies and products can be which are sustainable and game changers in how we applied in many sectors including renewable energy, generate, store and use energy. These have developed biomedical, transport, construction, environmental in the key areas outlined below and are currently being remediation, defence and space industries – linking demonstrated through major research initiatives supported Monash University to the future that graphene will built. by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and industry. Electroactive materials Next-generation solar cells: Light and energy Research conducted at the ARC Centre of Excellence in interconversion materials Electromaterials (ACES) includes creating and optimising new materials for use in next-generation devices for Monash University has been working in the area of light energy applications, while considering the ethical and and energy interconversion materials including next- public policy implications of these technologies. ACES generation solar cells for over two decades. Our focus research teams are striving to construct complex 3D in this area of research has been on printable solar cell structures in which the spatial distribution of the functional technologies. Developing printable solar cells that possess elements can be controlled with implications in new comparable efficiencies and stabilities to that offered by processes for hydrogen and ammonia production. silicon, will provide a cost-effective solution to meet the world’s increasing power demands. Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science (ACEx) are Next-generation ultra-low energy technologies: investigating the possibilities of transforming light into Atomically thin and low dimensional materials energy and energy into light. In collaboration with industry, Led by Monash University, Australian and international academics are involved in innovative research to improve investigators at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Future solar energy technology, lighting and security systems. Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET) are working at the boundaries of what is possible in condensed matter Batteries and energy storage physics and nanotechnology to develop a new generation Drawing from over a decade of research on catalysts, of ultralow power devices. Research in topological ionic liquids, membranes and carbon-based materials, we materials, exciton superfluids, and light-transformed have developed a leading position in synthesis and scale- materials aims to create systems in which electrical up of energy storage materials and their technologies. current can flow with near-zero resistance. This will be The energy storage program at Monash University has at made possible by synthesising novel atomically-thin its heart developing next-generation batteries that could materials and developing nano-fabrication techniques to power the future: lithium-sulphur, silicon, and magnesium incorporate these materials into device structures. systems. We prioritise practical viability for our energy storage technologies by looking at sustainable source Energy-efficient separation processes of active materials, meeting the industrial criteria of Research conducted at the ARC Research Hub for Energy- scalability, and avenues of recycling and repurposing of efficient Separation aims to develop advanced separation used batteries and end-of-life solar cells. materials, innovative products and smart processes to reduce the energy consumption of separation processes Monash University’s graphene supercapacitor research which underpin Australian industry. The intended research has been transformative to the global and local energy outcomes will allow most of the Australian industry to communities, in which major breakthroughs have led to become more energy-efficient and cost-competitive in a high impact academic publications, foundational IP, and global economy. Other projects in this area include the the establishment of spin-offs such as SupraG Energy and development of multifunctional nanoparticle membranes, Ionic Industries. with a view to design intelligent membranes with multifunctionalities (ultrafast filtration and smart sensing) for use in energy and environmental industries.

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SMART ENERGY SYSTEMS

Sensor Networks Our research expertise spans areas including radio- Transport Cognitive buildings frequency identification (RFID), smart antennas for The transport sector makes up close to a third of We are experimenting with research, design and mobile and satellite communications, electromagnetic implementation techniques in our Clayton campus to bring bandgap structure assisted radio frequency (RF) devices, our energy consumption. The uncertainty in future oil production and the long term need to transition away a new level of intelligence and decision making capability and various forms of antennas. Our capability extends to service occupants in buildings. This ‘living laboratory’ into processing data obtained from sensor networks from carbon-emitting fuel sources has suggested that an alternative source to fuel our transport needs is imminent. approach enables our team to collect available data and user to visualise and interact with energy networks and feedback to enhance facilities and security management, applications. Monash has one of the largest and broadest capabilities and to create comfortable spaces for students and staff while drastically reducing energy consumption. Artificial Intelligence and Optimisation in transport infrastructure research in the world. Our leading capabilities are railway engineering and public The AI-based Discrete Optimisation research group is transport. We also have leading expertise in intelligent Cybersecurity, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain working on both targeted and generic solving techniques transport systems, traffic systems, road safety, industrial Monash research in cybersecurity, cryptocurrency and to address complex discrete optimisation problems, design in vehicles, transport modelling, light-weight blockchain has been supported by the Australian Research with the view to making optimisation technologies more metals for automotive and aerospace applications, Council (ARC), Data 61 and industry partners. Our widely accessible, across a range of applications. In logistics and supply chains, and aerodynamic testing of mission is to develop solutions to the security, privacy, particular, our team is focused on research that helps vehicles in our wind tunnel. reliability, trust, and performance issues of different system users (a) model and solve these problems more easily, (b) environments. Our cybersecurity lab at Monash University interrogate the system regarding the provided solution, Energy access has strong collaboration between academics, industries and (c) interactively re-optimise based on additional user and governments, both locally and internationally. Our information. In this way, it has a ‘human-in-the-loop’ Globally, close to 3 billion people are without access to clean cooking facilities and close to 1 billion without key areas of research include cryptography, blockchain, approach to Discrete Optimisation that makes our team cryptocurrency technology, big data security, privacy quite unique. electricity. The issue affects Indigenous communities in Australia and communities in emerging economies enhanced technology, trusted computing, IoT security, biometric security, and network security. Machine Learning around the world. Our energy access group is working to accelerate the uptake of sustainable energy Machine learning is the science behind big data, data access through international interdisciplinary research Energy Data Visualisation and Immersive Analytics mining, data science, and artificial intelligence. It enables partnerships between researchers and private, public, Our energy visualisation and immersive analysis research systems to learn from data, identify patterns, and make and not-for-profit organisations. Our capabilities include groups are interested in helping people to understand decisions with minimal human intervention. Over the governance, energy technologies, optimised grids, complex, interlinked data through visualisation. Our work last 10 years Machine Learning has grown to become visualisation of energy systems, participatory methods of to date has focused on the problem of finding high-quality a fundamental technology driving innovations: Self- engagement, and market systems for energy access. layout for network diagrams and human interaction with driving cars, Siri the iPhone personal assistant, Netflix technologies. Our group has been working with large movie recommendations, cancer diagnosis, discovery of interactive surfaces and augmented and virtual reality – to physics’ laws, and scientific progress. Our team covers help people perform data analysis. Association discovery, Bayesian methods, causal models, classification, deep learning, forecasting, images, natural language analytics, online learning and learning from non- stationary distributions, semi-supervised models, spatio- temporal, text and time series analytics.

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MARKETS AND POLICY CONSUMERS

• Policy • Emerging technologies • Regulation • Energy futures • Economics • Demand response • Transition • Decision making • Peer-to-peer trading and sharing Australian Electricity Market Initiative (AEMI) • Energy access and affordability, social justice

AEMI aims at informing policymakers, assisting them in The world is facing an increasingly uncertain energy policy formulation and evaluating policy proposals using future, ushered in by climate change, population growth, rigorous economics analysis. decentralised power generation, new digitally-enabled lifestyles, and emerging technologies. In this context of AEMI works on uncertainty, it is urgent that research led by the social • market design sciences, design and behavioural sciences plays a central • the regulation of transmission and distribution assets role in formulating new approaches to understanding and • the industrial organisation of the electricity sector intervening in our energy futures. This means producing • the impact of new and emerging technologies such new knowledge and understandings of the socio- as renewables and large-scale storage. technical relations through which energy will be consumed in the future, and developing methods to ensure that our AEMI intersects with the Monash Energy Institute by energy futures are equitable, sustainable and support the working in some interdisciplinary manner with electrical growth of human health and wellbeing. engineers, computer scientists and storage specialists to better understand the physical characteristics of Emerging Technologies Research Lab these technologies and design more appropriate pricing mechanisms. We bring together social science and design research and intervention, through the work of the Energy Futures research programme in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab. The Future Grid Homes project identified residential consumer engagement strategies to encourage participation in demand-management and the adoption of emerging technologies related to the electricity grid. The Digital Energy Futures project develops new methodologies to create new energy future scenarios drawing on socio-technical concepts and theories to inform policy and planning.

BehaviourWorks Our collaboration with BehaviourWorks enables us to connect behaviour change experts with practitioners, translate research evidence into practice, and foster business, and economic and social change, for a better energy future.

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ENERGY RESOURCES

Wind energy and fluid dynamics Gasification Understanding fluid flow can help us harness the power Research in this area includes the development of of wind energy via wind turbines, and also reduce energy catalytic gasification technologies for low-rank coal and losses associated with air movement around and in biomass, as well as gasification technologies for the the wake of gas turbines. Efficiency gains can also be use of low-rank coal char and biochar. In addition, the had in the transport sector, especially relating to heavy gasification of lignites and biomass, and the gasification vehicles. In countries like Australia where much freight is and pyrolysis of wastes for fuels and energy production transported by truck over very large distances, reducing are being investigated. drag can make significant fuel savings and dramatically reduce carbon emissions. Geothermal energy The extraction of heat from deep earth has been a Bio-conversion promising technology, but so far has proved too inefficient Bio-conversion can offer a broad range of renewable, to ne economically viable. Most approaches use water low-carbon energy services such as transport fuel like as the working fluid – heat is absorbed into the water biodiesel and bioethanol, and also biomass or biogas for when large quantities are pumped through the geothermal combustion in power stations for generating electricity. resource; but overall recovery of heat is low and significant In these processes, it is even possible to sequestering amounts water are not recovered. Current research is carbon dioxide, making bioenergy a net carbon sink. We investigating the use of CO2 as an alternative to water. have developed capabilities in second-generation biofuels with feedstocks based on municipal waste, microalgae Mining and biomass. Core expertise in this area includes catalytic conversion for fuels production and discovering/designing While mining for fossil fuels will be phased out, mining enzymes for specific and fast reactions as isolated bio- remains a critical industry for sourcing the raw materials catalysts. needed for the world’s economy, even for the materials to build the renewable energy infrastructure required to decarbonise the energy system. Research in mining Hydrogen includes investigating the potential to retrieve critical The uncertainty in future oil production and the long minerals from Australia’s base and precious metal mines term need to transition away from carbon-emitting fuel and mineral resources. Critical minerals are economically sources has sparked a global interest in a hydrogen- important and assessed as being at risk of supply fuelled economy. Our researchers have a long history in disruption, which would lead to significant economic, hydrogen production through electrolysis, photochemical environmental and/or social impacts. These minerals water splitting and brown coal gasification. In addition to are required for a range of applications including in hydrogen, Monash has a developing area of research in the production of renewable energy (e.g. rare earths, ammonia production. Ammonia can be considered as a tellurium). suitable carrier of hydrogen, as well as having a variety of important agricultural uses.

CO2 capture, storage, and use Coal has long been the main energy source driving the social and economic development of Australia and meeting the energy needs of a growing world economy. However, when use for electricity generation, coal is a major carbon dioxide emissions source. We are working on drastically cutting the emissions from coal power stations by investigating improved methods for including advanced de-watering technologies, gasification processes, carbon capture technologies (both pre- and post-combustion), and chemical looping processes.

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ACEX ACES FLEET

The Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science (ACEx) At the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials The ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy is funded by the Australian Research Council to bring Science (ACES), we turn our fundamental knowledge Electronics Technologies (FLEET) is developing electronic together researchers and industry to discover new ways of cutting-edge materials into the next generation of devices that operate at ultra-low energy, enabling to source and use energy. ‘smart devices’ for the benefit of the community. But revolutionary new technologies to drive future electronics what exactly does that mean? We think of a smart device and computing, while meeting society’s demand for We are a collaboration of the best researchers in Australia as a game-changing application, utilising the advanced reduced energy consumption. at the University of Melbourne, Monash University, RMIT, materials we make in our laboratories to create new health University of NSW and the University of Sydney. We work and energy solutions that improve people’s lives. FLEET is linking a highly interdisciplinary team of high- with our Industry Partners – Reserve Bank of Australia, profile Australian and international researchers in atomic CSIRO, Melbourne Centre of Nanofabrication and the Our Centre of Excellence incorporates collaborators from physics, condensed matter physics, materials science, Department of Defence: Defence Science & Technology across Australia and the world, known for their expertise electronics, nanofabrication, and atomically thin materials. Group – to transform our research into practice. in advanced materials and device fabrication. ACES is generating options for the future, with our researchers With over $40M investment from the ARC and We research better ways to manipulate the way light creating new knowledge to deal with some of the great contributing organisations, FLEET is poised to make energy is absorbed, transported and transformed in challenges of the 21st century. significant global impact in the electronics and energy advanced molecular materials to find innovative solutions sectors. By building strategic and strong partnerships with for renewable energy in solar energy conversion, energy- For more information visit Australian and international industry, research institutions efficient lighting and displays, and security labelling and electromaterials.edu.au and government, FLEET aims to build capacity for optical sensor platforms for defence. We are aiming for advanced electronics research in Australia and train the a future where all types of light transform into renewable workforce for the next generation of electronic materials energy. researchers and future semiconductor industry.

For more information visit For more information visit excitonscience.com fleet.org.au

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RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY FUTURE CONTROL ROOM

The Renewable Energy Laboratory is a custom-built facility The Future Control Room (FCR) is a co-creation between the for the development of printed, thin-film solar cells from lab Monash Energy Institute, Grid Innovation Hub (GIH), the Faculty of to pre-commercial sizes. The facility integrates closely with IT, the Faculty of Engineering, and MIVP. CSIRO, the Australian Synchrotron, and Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication. CAVE2™

SOLAR FUELS LABORATORY The Monash CAVE2™ is an immersive hybrid 2D and 3D virtual reality environment. It allows researchers to visualise, manipulate The Solar Fuels Laboratory is focused on developing new and comprehend data such as engineering models and multi- materials that can generate hydrogen from water and be used in dimensional images across a range of size scales and simulations. next-generation fuel cells. The laboratory is supported by state- of-the-art facilities capable of synthesising, characterising and testing novel and existing photo-catalytic materials. MONASH CENTRE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (MCAM)

DEEP EARTH ENERGY RESEARCH LABORATORY MCAM has world-leading expertise in all the light metals and houses the world’s latest equipment for 3D printing of This laboratory is investigating new techniques for extraction of components from metallic powders. deep earth energy resources using one of the world’s largest high-pressure, high-temperature testing chambers.

MONASH WIND TUNNEL FACILITY (MWTF)

LOW EMISSION COAL TECHNOLOGIES Open to industry partners, researchers and students, MWTF is LABORATORY the largest wind tunnel in the southern hemisphere. The facility enables aerodynamic and wind noise research and development. This laboratory is equipped to investigate improved methods for producing energy from brown coal through coal drying,

coal gasification, production of concentrated CO2 streams, and simultaneous capture of CO2 and production of hydrogen. MONASH CENTRE FOR ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (MCEM)

MCEM provides a world-leading suite of advanced electron microscopy techniques that can determine the composition, structure and bonding of materials down to the atomic scale. Such facilities underpin the development of new energy materials and devices.

For more information visit monash.edu/energy-institute/facilities

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This list is a selection of researchers’ profiles, which aims to showcase the breadth of capabilities in the field of energy at Monash University, based on the information available at the time of publication. Profiles are broadly grouped in areas of end use application including consumers, energy resources, fuels, markets and policy, materials and devices, and smart energy systems.

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Abby Wild Professor Daniel Prajogo Dr Darren Sharp Professor Diego Ramirez-lovering Professor Erte Xiao Associate Professor Gillian Oliver

MONASH SUSTAINABLE FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS MONASH SUSTAINABLE FACULTY OF ART, FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS FACULTY OF DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BEHAVIOURWORKS AUSTRALIA ARCHITECTURE HUMAN CENTRED COMPUTING (HCC) E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Abby Wild has a diverse career in Professor Daniel Prajogo research Dr Darren Sharp is a Research Professor Diego Ramirez-lovering’s Professor Erte Xiao’s research applies Associate Professor Gillian Oliver research and consulting that has interest areas are mainly focused on Fellow at the Monash Sustainable research examines the contributory experimental methods to understand leads the Digital Equity research and spanned the US, the UK, Singapore quality, operations, supply chain, and Development Institute where he is role that design, and design thinking how incentives and social norms teaching group. Her research interests and Australia, Abby has conducted innovation management. He has over Research Coordinator of the Net can play in addressing the significant influence economic behavior. Before centre on information culture, the research, program evaluation and 100 publications, including journal Zero Precincts program and Chief challenges facing contemporary joining Monash University, she was an influences of values and behaviours communications work across a range articles, conference papers, edited Investigator of the Water-Energy- urban environments, climate change, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon on the ways that information is of projects and clients. She has a research books, book chapters, and Food Nexus project. Darren is a resource limitations and rapid University and a post-doctoral fellow managed in organisational settings. strong working practice of quantitative industry reports. He was listed as sustainability transitions researcher population growth with a key focus at the University of Pennsylvania. She is co-author of Records and qualitative methods and one of the top 25 SCM scholars in interested in urban experimentation, on the Global South and through Management and Information Culture: extensive experience with surveys, Asia by a research paper published grassroots innovation and the sharing a lens of planetary health. Diego is Expertise Tackling the People Problem (Facet, interviewing and facilitating focus in International Journal of Production economy. He co-led a living lab in the director of the Informal Cities Behavioural/experimental, applied 2014) and Digital Curation, 2nd ed groups. Abby has an undergraduate Economics. In his research, he has Melbourne that used action research Lab (ICL). The Lab undertakes micro (ALA, 2016) and Co-editor in Chief of degree in neuroscience and history built collaborations with international to empower local residents to design-based research exploring the Archival Science. from Harvard (USA). She obtained academics, and industry associations reduce their carbon emissions at an conditions of informality in developing an M.Phil. in Criminological Research in Australia which have funded the individual, household and community cities with specific focus on the Expertise at Cambridge University (UK). Abby research projects, including Joint level. Darren’s research speaks to Asia-Pacific. ICL research – designed Organisational and social informatics, returned to Cambridge on a Gates Accreditation System of Australia and the possibilities of social learning, and conducted in collaboration with information culture, values and Scholarship for her PhD, which she is New Zealand (JAS-ANZ) and Institute institutional arrangements, community government and industry – strives behaviours currently completing. for Safety, Compensation, and agency and new urban imaginaries for impact, purposefully targeting Recovery Research (ISCRR). to drive the transformation of cities implementation at the intersection of Expertise towards sustainability. academic research and international Social inclusion, social connectedness Expertise development. and social disadvantage, prison Quality management, operations and Expertise sociology, narrative criminology and supply chain management, innovation Transition management, sustainability Expertise religious life in prisons, feminist theory, management, strategic management transitions, urban experimentation, Informal settlements, urban design, biophilic design, justice architecture grassroots innovation, the sharing affordable housing economy, living labs, action research, community economies

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Dr Jathan Sadowski Dr Jim Curtis Dr Julia Meis-Harris Dr Kari Dahlgren Dr Larissa Nicholls Dr Larry Stillman

FACULTY OF MONASH SUSTAINABLE MONASH SUSTAINABLE FACULTY OF FACULTY OF FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HUMAN CENTRED COMPUTING (HCC) BEHAVIOURWORKS AUSTRALIA BEHAVIOURWORKS AUSTRALIA HUMAN CENTRED COMPUTING (HCC) HUMAN CENTRED COMPUTING (HCC) HUMAN CENTRED COMPUTING (HCC)

E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Dr Jathan Sadowski is a research Dr Jim Curtis’ research focuses Dr Julia Meis-Harris’ research interests Dr Kari Dahlgren is a Research Dr Larissa Nicholls’ human- Dr Larry Stillman’s research interests fellow in the Emerging Technologies on gaining an intimate, theoretical, lie in the area of environmental and Fellow in the Emerging Technologies computer interaction research include community informatics and Research Lab. His work focuses and applied understanding of the social psychology, environmentally Research Lab working on the Digital includes smart home, distributed development informatics in urban on the political economy and influences impacting on the behaviour sustainable behaviour and climate Energy Futures Project. Kari is a social electricity generation, and other digital or rural settings in Australia and the social impacts of digital systems. of a range of target audiences, change, and consumer behaviour and anthropologist and ethnographer technologies. Her applied research Global South. He has conducted He is interested in understanding leading and collaborating on teams the influence of economic inequality interested in the social and ethical projects involve in-home ethnographic research with the Council for Scientific the interests and imperatives that across over 80 projects. Jim has on prejudice toward immigrants. aspects of energy production and research to explore interactions and Industrial Research, South Africa, influence how technologies are acquired an intimate understanding During her PhD she worked on consumption in Australia. between energy (technologies, usage, on the development of internet kiosks designed and why they are used. of how the public sector interacts various behaviour change projects pricing, communications) and social, for poor urban and rural communities with research, working with multiple in cooperation with BWA as well as Expertise physical and financial wellbeing. in Africa, and has been closed Expertise government partners in Victoria and other entities, such as the review of Energy Futures, digital technologies, Larissa specialises in bringing involved with the PROTIC project Smart technology, digital technology, New South Wales. He has witnessed innovative P-Turn intersections for mining, ethnography deeper understandings of household with Oxfam in Bangladesh since automation, data and society, political and experienced the different ways VicRoads and a review of energy use practices and concerns into Australia’s 2014. This project is concerned with economy, inequality, urban geography, that research can be applied to inform and sustainable housing practices for ongoing policy debates about the social well-being of marginalised social theory program design and policy shifts, the NSW Office of Environment and energy affordability, sustainability communities (farmers, fisherfolk, and is committed to applying these Heritage. She is particularly interested and reliability. The impacts of energy the urban underclass) and their use learnings. in the drivers of various environmental policy and emerging technologies of mobile technology for income and pro-social behaviours that impact for vulnerable and disadvantaged generation and community wellbeing Expertise everyday life. households are a key research focus. in response to grand environmental Behaviour change, psychology, Her industry research supports and economic challenges. He environment and sustainability, Expertise consumer advocacy and energy favours qualitative and engaged environment, policy, management Consumer behaviour change, organisation decision-making towards social-technical research, and the consumer psychology, inequality better outcomes for households. transmission of research knowledge to local partners. Expertise Energy futures, demand-side Expertise mangement, smart home, smart Community and development grid, digital sociology, digital informatics, tools for change in technologies, emerging technologies, ngos, information and knowledge disadvantaged and diversity management, qualitative methodologies

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Associate Professor Peter Bragge Dr Rob Brimblecombe Professor Sarah Pink Dr Shirui Pan Dr Xin Ma Associate Professor Yolande Strengers MONASH SUSTAINABLE MONASH CLIMATE CHANGE FACULTY OF ART, FACULTY OF FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH HUB DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF BEHAVIOURWORKS AUSTRALIA ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES LAB DATA SCIENCE AND AI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY E: [email protected] HUMAN CENTRED COMPUTING (HCC) E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Associate Professor Peter Bragge Dr Rob Brimblecombe leads Professor Sarah Pink is the Director of Dr Shirui Pan received a PhD degree Dr Xin Ma’s research interests Associate Professor Yolande specialises in translating research the University’s Engineering and the Emerging Technologies Research in data science from UTS, NSW, include sustainable operations Strengers is a digital sociologist and evidence into practice and policy to Sustainability team, including the Lab at Monash. She is a world Australia. He then worked as a management, energy management, human-computer interaction scholar address challenges faced in health development and delivery of the leading Design Anthropologist, known Research Fellow (from Aug 2015 to revenue management, game theory, investigating the sustainability and and sustainable development. This Net Zero Emissions Initiative and for her development of innovative June 2018) at the Centre for Artificial and health care management. gender effects of digital, emerging involves identifying, appraising operational Circular Economy digital, visual and sensory research Intelligence (CAI), School of Software, His publications have appeared and smart technologies. At Monash, and cataloguing research Strategy. Over the last ten years he and dissemination methodologies, UTS. Prior to Monash, Shirui Pan in journals such as Decision she leads the energy futures theme in evidence, exploring the practice has directed the University’s Energy which she engages in interdisciplinary was a Lecturer and a Chancellor’s Sciences, European Journal of the Emerging Technologies Research context through consultation with management and procurement projects with design, engineering Postdoc Research Fellow at University Operational Research, International Lab, which undertakes critical practitioners and policymakers, and activities, lectured in building science and creative practice disciplines to of Technology Sydney (UTS). To Journal of Production Economics, interdisciplinary and international consulting on intervention design and renewable energy systems, engage with contemporary issues date, Dr Pan has published over 50 International Journal of Production research into the social, cultural and and implementation. As Director of supervised applied research projects and challenges. She has over 20 research papers in top-tier journals Research, Computers & Operations experiential dimensions of the design, Health Programs for BehaviourWorks in sustainable development and years experiences of working with and conferences, including the IEEE Research, Journal of Cleaner use and futures of new and emerging Australia, Peter manages partnerships co-authored the book ‘Positive academic and industry research Transactions on Neural Networks Production, and IEEE Transactions technologies. Yolande works with with a number of government and Energy Homes’. He has a PhD in partners internationally and frequently and Learning Systems (TNNLS), IEEE on Engineering Management. Before qualitative and digital ethnographic other agencies. Peter also leads Photo-electrolysis (solar hydrogen) gives keynote and public lectures in Transactions on Knowledge and Data joining Monash he was Lecturer of methods, theories of social practice Monash Sustainable Development and before taking up his position academic and business environments Engineering (TKDE), IEEE Transactions Engineering Management (Education and techno-feminism to understand Institute’s collaboration with McMaster a Monash, completed a Fulbright internationally. She has published on Cybernetics (TCYB), ICDE, AAAI, and Research) at the College of how people use new technologies. University in Canada to build Social Fellowship at Princeton University numerous academic books, peer IJCAI, ICDM, SDM, PAKDD. Engineering, and Mathematics and Systems Evidence – the world’s and a postgraduate fellowship and referred journal articles and book Physical Sciences at University of Expertise largest evidence resource for the Monash University, with publications chapters. Expertise Exeter. Sustainability and gender effects Sustainable Development Goals. in leading peer reviewed journals. Machine learning and energy time of digital, emerging and smart Expertise series forecasting Expertise technologies Expertise Expertise Emerging intelligent technologies, Energy and low-carbon management, Evidence-based policy and practice, Photo-electrolysis, renewable energy automation, data, digital futures, supply chain and sustainable behaviour change systems, building science safety and design for wellbeing operations management, pricing and revenue management

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Professor Abdelmalek Bouazza Associate Professor Professor Alan Chaffee Dr Alexandr N Simonov Associate Professor Dr Asadul Haque Akshat Tanksale Andrew Hoadley FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING CIVIL ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY FACULTY OF ENGINEERING CIVIL ENGINEERING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Professor Abdelmalek Bouazza Associate Professor Akshat Tanksale Professor Alan Chaffee’s research Dr Alexandr Simonov leads a Solar Associate Professor Andrew Hoadley Dr Asadul Haque has been has an international reputation leads the Catalysis for Green embraces investigating ways of Fuels group who undertake research is passionate about designing conducting research in two major for research in geosynthetics and Chemicals group where his interest more efficient uses of coal and how in the sustainable synthesis of green processing plants for better areas: critical infrastructure and environmental geotechnics. His is in the field of heterogeneous carbon dioxide emissions can be best fuels – hydrogen and ammonia, environmental performance. He is carbon-sequestration. His work on research has been recognised by a catalysis for conversion of CO2 and controlled. He is also investigating from renewables. The group brings particularly interested in assisting biochar carbon sequestration in soils number of awards including, recently, biomass into fuels and chemicals developing renewable fuels to together specialists in chemistry, with the reduction in carbon footprint and protecting infrastructure in acid the 2018 International Geosynthetics using nanomaterials. He has recently replace coal and the concern about materials science and engineering of chemical and energy systems sulphate soils (ASS) are of significant Society Award. Professor Bouazza been appointed the Theme Leader for environmental consequences of using who aim to design high-performance through better integration and the contributions. He is the recipient is very prominent in technical and the Carbon Capture, Conversion and coal. Victoria has an abundance of electromaterials for emerging use of renewable energy. He is also of many industry and national professional society activities and Utilisation Theme of the Woodside brown coal and with the support of photovoltaic and electrocatalytic an active researcher in the fields of competitive grants and has published serves on a number of international Monash Energy Partnership. a Research Leader Fellowship from applications and understand the dewatering and steam drying, and more than 85 papers. Dr Haque technical committees. Currently, He believes that innovating new Brown Coal Innovation Australia, Alan mechanisms of their operation. One related to these areas, he is interested worked as the Director of Teaching he is the Chair of the International processes and designing novel is seeking new uses for this ‘massive of key features of their research in the upgrading of waste materials, of Civil Engineering (2014-2015) Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical heterogeneous catalysts at the resource’ and improved ways of is the development of the in situ industrial ecology and sustainability. and provided leadership to develop Engineering (ISSMGE) Technical nanoscale is the key for developing dealing with it. This includes obtaining and operando methods for the He is an active member of the quality learning and teaching practices Committee TC 215 on Environmental low carbon emission alternative fuels chemicals from coal, and finding characterisation of electromaterials in Education Special Interest Group of through development of new policies Geotechnics and the Secretary and chemicals. Recent achievements methods of extracting the moisture action. The group actively interacts the Institution of Chemical Engineers. and procedures. He is the program of ISSMGE TC308 on Energy from A/Prof Tanksale’s research that don’t themselves use high levels with the emerging and established leader of the off-campus master Geotechnics. group include conversion of CO2 into of energy. Australian companies within the Expertise of infrastructure engineering and diesel range liquid fuels using novel renewable energy sector. Carbon capture and utilisation, management program at Monash. Expertise metal organic framework catalysts. Expertise dewatering processes, multi-objective Geothermal systems Using this technology CO2 and green Lignite-water interactions, mechanical Expertise optimisation, process plant design Expertise H2 from water electrolysis can be thermal expression Electrocatalysis, electromaterials, and renewable energy integration Geo-materials, X-ray, CT imaging, combined to make renewable fuels photovoltaics, renewable hydrogen, carbon sequestration with zero net carbon emission. renewable ammonia

Expertise Biofuels, catalysis, hydrogen production and storage

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Associate Professor Dr Daniel Edgington-Mitchell Graham Palmer Professor Gregory Sheard Dr Ha Hong Bui Professor Hugh Blackburn Chris Greening FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE CIVIL ENGINEERING MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE MICROBIOLOGY ENGINEERING ENGINEERING ENGINEERING ENGINEERING E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Associate Professor Chris Greening Dr Daniel Edgington-Mitchell works Dr Graham Palmer is a researcher Professor Greg Sheard leads a Dr Ha Bui’s major research interests Professor Hugh Blackburn’s principal uses his understanding of microbial as a researcher in the Laboratory for with an industry background as research team specialising in high- are in the areas of computational research area is the physics of energetics to tackle key problems Turbulence Research in Aerospace an engineer and researcher in order computational methods for the mechanics and material modelling unsteady flows and associated in sustainable development and and Combustion. He received his manufacturing, HVAC and electronics. simulation and analysis of fluid flow with particular focus on large computational methods. He is a planetary health. Following an undergraduate degrees in Mechanical He has published in the area of and heat transfer. His work seeks to deformation and failure of Fellow of the Institution of Engineers undergraduate in Molecular and and Aerospace Engineering from biophysical economics, renewable explain how instability and turbulence geomaterials. He leads the Monash Australia and of the Australasian Cellular Biochemistry (University of Monash University in 2005. During energy, life-cycle analysis, and develop from smooth flows – so Computational Geomechanics (MCG) Fluid Mechanics Society. He holds Oxford, 2010), he completed a PhD his PhD, he undertook graduate energy-economic modelling. Graham critical to mixing and heat transport Lab. He worked as a Research Fellow a BE from UniSA and a PhD from focused on hydrogen metabolism in research in the High Temperature obtained his PhD in the area of – and the modifying roles played at the Department of Civil Engineering Monash, in the area of bluff body fluid mycobacteria (University of Otago, Gas Dynamics Laboratory at Stanford energy-return-on-investment (EROI). by buoyancy and electromagnetic at Ritsumeikan University. His mechanics. Prior to commencing 2014). His group researches the University under the auspices of His current research interests include forces on these phenomena. Current research focused on the development his PhD at Monash he worked as energetic processes that allow a Fulbright Fellowship from 2008- the future roles of energy storage interests include horizontal heat of advanced numerical methods to a consulting engineer for Kinhill bacteria to regulate greenhouse 2009. He was awarded his PhD from systems. transport in natural convection flows model large deformation and flow Engineers, and CSIRO where he gas cycling, maintain biodiversity in Monash University in 2013. modeling global ocean currents, and failure of geomaterials. carried out both fundamental and extreme environments, and cause Expertise the destabilisation of liquid metal flows applied research in fluid dynamics. infectious diseases. A key focus is Expertise Energy storage and conversion, under strong magnetic fields for viable Expertise hydrogen and methane metabolism. Aeroacoustics, fluid mechanics, high hydrogen production and storage heat extraction from future magnetic Computational mechanics, material Expertise He has published in leading journals speed propulsion, jet noise confinement fusion reactors. modelling with particular focus on Physics of unsteady flows and including Nature, and has been large deformation and failure of associated computational methods awarded fellowships from the CSIRO, Expertise geomaterials ARC, and NHMRC. Fluid mechanics, natural convection, heat transfer, magnetohydrodynamics, Expertise MHDQuasi-2D flows, flow stability, Bioenergetics, biohydrogen, microbial linear stability analysis, transient biochemistry, microbial genetics, growth, rotating flows, swirling flows, microbial ecology, greenhouse gases polar vortex instability, wake flows

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Professor Jian Zhao Associate Professor Jie Zhang Dr Joanne Tanner Dr Lee Djumas Associate Professor Lian Zhang Professor Mark Thompson

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING CIVIL ENGINEERING SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MATERIALS SCIENCE AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING ENGINEERING E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Professor Jian Zhao is an engineering Associate Professor Jie Zhang is a Dr Joanne Tanner has gained industry Dr Lee Djumas is currently the Associate Professor Lian Zhang Professor Mark Thompson has been specialist covering research, teaching Chief Investigator at the Australian experience in control systems design Research and Innovation Manager of specialises in the Research, consulting and has had previous and consulting on rock mechanics, Research Council Centre of and configuration during her role the Woodside FutureLab at Monash Development and Deployment industrial work with AMIRA, CRA, geotechnical engineering, tunnelling Excellence for Electromaterials at Honeywell, and subsequently University overseeing the Research related to a broad range of high COMALCO and Ford Europe. His and mining. His expertise is in Science (ACES). He also jointly managed and implemented client- and Innovation program with a range efficiency and low-emission clean biomedical-targeted research has fundamental and applied researches leads the Monash Electrochemistry driven chemical engineering research of industry partners. His interests lie energy technologies, particularly for focussed on numerical modelling of of rock mechanics and applied Group. Dr Zhang is an electrochemist projects at laboratory, pilot and in delivering real-world impact in a the advanced utilisation of low-rank stirred bioreactors, stenoses and cell- geophysics, tunnelling and mining by training who has developed scale with HRL Technology. She range of fields particularly related to coal, biomass and industry waste, and cell/cell-wall interactions. Thompson’s technology. a solid background in both the has designed, commissioned and materials and design. catalytic synthesis of hydrogen and other major interest has been experimental and theoretical demonstrated several fit-for-purpose, liquid fuels. He undertakes extensive modelling the way particles interact Expertise aspects of electrochemistry during pilot scale reactors and has a close Expertise collaborative research with a variety with other particles and walls, with Rock mechanics, rock dynamics, his research career. He has also collaboration with the Institute of Additive manufacturing, multi-material of industry partners and research potential extensions to deformable underground construction, obtained a broad experience in other Energy and Climate Research, IEK- structures, multi-functional design organisations across Australia and immune cells such as platelets and geophysics, mining engineering, research areas, such as biomedical 2, at Forschungszentrum Jülich, from overseas. He is a member of leukocytes. geothermal energy engineering, materials engineering and Germany, where she did some American Chemistry Society (ACS), nanotechnology. He has published postdoctoral research. Dr Tanner’s the Japan Society of Chemical Expertise six book chapters, seven international current research interests include Engineers, the Japan Institute of Flow-induced vibration, biological fluid patents, and more than 200 refereed biorefinery processes, waste biomass Energy and Engineers Australia. He is dynamics, aeroacoustics, industrial journal articles. utilisation for sustainable fuel and currently leading the Clean Solid Fuel fluid dynamics, computational fluid chemicals production, and closed Laboratory (CSFL) in the Department dynamics, aerodynamics, flow Expertise loop recycling of waste plastics. of Chemical Engineering, Monash. instabilities, wake flows, bluff body Alternative fuels and chemicals, He has been awarded the Inaugural flows electrochemistry, electromaterials, Expertise Future Fellowship Award in 2010. electrocatalysis, electrosynthesis, Biorefinery, biofuel energy conversion, sensors Expertise Low-emission combustion and gasification technologies, waste to energy and products technologies, catalytic upgrading of bio-oil, hydrogen production, molten chloride

chemistry, and CO2 utilisation

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Associate Professor Matthew Hill Dr Mega Kar Dr Mehrdad Parsa Associate Professor Professor Paul Webley Professor Philip Marriott Mohan Yellishetty FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF SCIENCE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY FACULTY OF ENGINEERING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CENTRE FOR GREEN CHEMISTRY CIVIL ENGINEERING E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Associate Professor Matthew Hill Dr Mega Kar specialises in IL Dr Mehrdad Parsa is a highly Associate Professor Mohan Yellishetty Professor Webley has over 15 years’ Professor Philip Marriott’s main is an Australian Research Council synthesis and electrochemistry, engaging applied chemist whose has had two decades of research and industry and academic experience in research activities are in analytical Future Fellow and the Winner of a working on electrodeposition, experience spans the spectrum from academic career in Australia, USA the development and management chemistry, specifically gas 2014 Australian Prime Minister’s and metal batteries. Her main advanced material, energy and health, and India and has been recognised as of clean energy technologies, chromatography (multidimensional Prize for Science. Matthew leads an research is aimed at designing to environmental science areas. one of the leading experts in the area specifically carbon capture. Professor GC and comprehensive 2D GC) with interdisciplinary team of researchers novel ionic liquids for application in He has delivered several published of ‘sustainable mineral resources’. Webley leads the Woodside Monash mass spectrometry. Professor Marriott that are actively involved with industry rechargeable magnesium batteries. articles and formed new products His research and academic work Energy Partnership to progress is recipient of an ARC Discovery partners to bring exciting discoveries She has received The Most Promising and methods. His works resulted in experience have provided him with the energy solutions for a lower carbon Outstanding Researcher Award. in the laboratory to market. He holds Woman Scientist award at the 6th two registered patents: a new Carbon opportunity to undertake high quality future. Aligned to the United Nations He has recently been awarded a a joint position between CSIRO and International Congress on Ionic Honeycomb Monolith (Australian research work and to contribute Sustainable Development Goals, the Special Visiting Researcher on a Monash. His research areas include Liquids, the Faculty of Science Patent) and a novel and game- significantly to mining engineering research and development initiatives Brazil CNPq grant, administered development and application of Advancing Women’s Success Grant, changing method for wastewater discipline and publish widely in of the partnership will focus on by the Federal University of Rio de porous materials: storage, separation and the Australian-India Early Career treatment and several patent reputed high impact journals. leadership and novel technologies in Janeiro, in conjunction with the and triggered release of small Research Fellowship grant. Along with disclosures. the hydrogen value chain and carbon Agricultural Institute EMBRAPA. Prior molecules with adsorbents and Professor Douglas MacFarlane and Expertise abatement. Professor Webley’s to this, he was awarded a World membranes, flow chemistry, lithium- Associate Professor Jennifer Pringle, Expertise Mine rehabilitation and closure, principal research interest has seen Class University (WCU) Distingished sulphur batteries and supercapacitors. she co-authored a textbook titled Advanced carbon materials, liquid industrial ecology, life cycle thinking, him at the cutting edge in supporting Professorship, under the Korean “Fundamentals of Ionic Liquid Science purification, energy storage, catalyst substance flow and material flow Australia’s lower-carbon energy Research Foundation, with Chung- Expertise – From chemistry to applications“, support analysis, resources and environmental transition. Ang University, Seoul. Energy storage, flow chemistry, published in 2017. geotechnical engineering lithium-sulphur batteries and Expertise Expertise supercapacitors Expertise Clean energy technologies, gas Gas chromatography, mass Synthetic and physical chemistry of separation, energy storage, spectrometry, high-performance liquid ionic liquids applications of thermodynamics to chromatography improve process efficiency

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Dr Priya Samudrala Professor Ranjith Gamage Dr Roger Dargaville Professor Sankar Bhattacharya Dr Stuart Walsh Dr Tom Hughes

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CIVIL ENGINEERING CIVIL ENGINEERING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CIVIL ENGINEERING CIVIL ENGINEERING

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Dr Priya Samudrala studied applied Professor Ranjith Gamage is Dr Roger Dargaville is an expert in Professor Sankar Bhattacharva has Dr Stuart Walsh holds a PhD in Dr Tom Hughes’ research is chemistry and received her PhD in among leading researchers trying to energy systems and climate change. a strong background in industry and Applied Mathematics from the in thermophysical property December 2016 at RMIT University assemble hard numbers and facts Roger specialises in large-scale academia. He worked in India as a University of Melbourne. Following his measurements including vapour-liquid working in the area of heterogeneous that will make geosequestration energy system transition optimisation, design and commissioning engineer in PhD, he worked in postdoctoral and equilibrium and solid liquid equilibrium catalysis for bio-glycerol conversion possible. He has also been awarded and novel energy storage coal-fired power stations, in Thailand research positions in the United States and measurements related to carbon to commodity chemicals and fine the ARC Future Fellowship (2009) technologies such as seawater operating pilot plants processing agro- at the University of Minnesota, Cornell dioxide capture and sequestration chemical synthesis involving organic for his research work to combat pumped hydro and liquid air energy forestry residues to gaseous fuels, University, and Lawrence Livermore and the use of natural gas hydrates transformations. After her PhD, she climate change. His main research storage. He has conducted research the Lignite CRC and Anglo Coal in National Laboratory. He returned and semi-clathrate hydrates in gas continued working as a Research interests are in sustainability, industry in global carbon cycle science, Australia on operating coal gasification to Australia in 2015, and started separations. His primary research Assistant at the Centre for Advanced innovation, energy, and climate simulating the emissions of carbon and advanced combustion pilot plant, a research consultancy/software ambition is to assist industry in Materials and Industrial Chemistry change. His contribution has been dioxide from fossil fuel and exchanges and the International Energy Agency development company: Stone-Code their goals to improve operations (CAMIC), School of Sciences, in development of new methods to between the atmosphere, land and in France leading their Cleaner Fossil Pty. Ltd, before taking a position at and processes by providing RMIT University. She reinforced understand and overcome resource- oceans as well as stratospheric ozone Fuels program. Most of his recent the School of Petroleum Engineering measurements or modelling that her knowledge in heterogeneous recovery challenges – in mining, depletion. projects are large scale and industry- at the University of New South allow optimal designs and operating catalysis and ventured into a new and especially for unconventional oriented on gasification, conversion Wales. In 2018, Dr Walsh returned to conditions to be more confidently area of developing three-dimensional gas and geothermal reserves – with Expertise of wastes (plastics, tyres, eWastes) Melbourne, joining the Department determined and reduce energy printed catalyst formulations and their the strategic goal of improving and Large-scale energy system transition and biomass to fuels, chemicals, of Civil Engineering at Monash as a requirements and environmental application in sustainable chemical promoting technological innovation optimisation, and novel energy hydrogen and monomer recovery. He member of the resources engineering impacts. production from renewable sources. for environmental protection and storage technologies also advises multiple governments division. responsible use of resources. and international bodies. He is the Expertise Expertise co-inventor of four patents in power Expertise Thermophysical property Green chemistry, 3D printing in Expertise and platform chemicals from biomass Tightly-coupled geomechanical, measurements, carbon dioxide catalysis, biomass valorisation to fuels Shale gas, coal seam gas, CO2 and coal. hydrodynamic and eochemical capture and sequestration, use and chemicals sequestration, deep geothermal multiscale models and their of natural gas hydrates and semi- energy Expertise application to geoscientific and calthrate hydrates in gas separations Circular economy – wastes, biomass engineering problems, offshore and coal processing for fuels, oil and gas, geothermal energy hydrogen production and monomer production, carbon-sequestration, recovery, biofuels and platform and hydraulic fracturing operations chemicals and development of novel stimulation and drilling technologies

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Associate Professor Dr Zongyan Zhou Victoria Haritos FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Associate Professor Victoria Dr Zongyan Zhou’s research interests Haritos’ research brings together include modelling of particle-fluid flows biology and engineering to address in gas and oil extraction, multiscale future manufacturing needs. She study of raceway operations for is interested in discovering and low-cost and stable ironmaking, designing enzymes for specific and and micromechanical analysis of fast reactions as isolated biocatalysts. size segregation and its prediction in She’s also researching the metabolic granular free-surface flows. He holds and systems biology of cells in a PhD in process metallurgy, powder culture – examining productivity technology and granular materials and and underlying reasons behind multiphase flow and heat transfer from heterogeneity in response and how University of New South Wales. this can be modified. She applies research knowledge to improve Expertise thermal processing outcomes and Multi-phase flow and heat transfer preserving nutrients in processed modelling foods by working with a range of food and beverage companies.

Expertise Biocatalysis, bioprocessing, bio- fuels and chemicals production, CO2 capture

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Amandine Denis-Ryan Professor Amrik Sohal Associate Professor Anke Leroux Associate Professor Ariel Liebman Professor Asad Islam Associate Professor Athanasios Pantelous CLIMATEWORKS AUSTRALIA FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS FACULTY OF FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS MANAGEMENT ECONOMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ECONOMICS FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS E: amandine.denis@ DATA SCIENCE AND AI ECONOMETRICS AND BUSINESS climateworksaustralia.org E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] STATISTICS E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Amandine oversees ClimateWorks’ Professor Amrik Sohal holds a PhD Associate Professor Anke Leroux is Associate Professor Ariel Liebman Professor Asad Islam is currently the Associate Professor Athanasios national programs, which include in Operations Management, an MBA an environmental and natural resource leads Monash’s Digital Energy Director of the Centre for Development (Thanasi) Pantelous is a research helping governments and businesses and a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons). economist. She is particularly initiatives, and co-leads the Grid Economics and Substantiality (CDES) director in the areas of Actuarial develop pathways and strategies Professor Sohal worked in the UK interested in economic behaviour Innovation Hub. He has published at Monash. He has worked in a Science and Quantitative Finance. for net zero emissions, unblocking manufacturing industry for over 10 and resource management under on various aspects of the electricity number of developing countries on Dr Pantelous’ primary research barriers to implementation across all years before becoming an academic. conditions of risk, uncertainty and industry including impacts of emission a range of issues including energy, interests focus on the general sectors of the economy and building He has been a chief-investigator irreversibility. Her theoretical, empirical trading, real-options investment, and environment and natural disasters, area of quantitative research and capacity in current and future leaders on numerous projects funded the and experimental work is published wholesale price forecasting. Ariel is an technology adoption, gender, mathematical modelling under risk to support the transition. Prior to Australian Research Council, federal in the top journals of her field and has energy markets specialist with more education and social networks. and uncertainty with an emphasis on this, Amandine oversaw research and state government departments informed climate change adaptation than 15 years’ experience across all He has published widely in leading finance, actuarial science, stochastic and analysis across the breadth of and industry. Professor Sohal has policies in the conservation and aspects of the electricity supply chain economics and public policy journals mechanics and operational research. ClimateWorks’ projects. Amandine authored over 240 papers published water sectors. In the area of energy incorporating modelling of deregulated and is involved in extensive field works His theoretical mathematical also has extensive expertise in the in refereed journals, as well as three economics, Anke is interested in power markets and generation including running experiments and developments have often found industrial sector. She led the ‘Industrial books and a number of chapters the role of incentives for consumer investment planning, network conducting randomised controlled diverse applications in finance, Energy Efficiency Data Analysis’ contributed to books. His research behaviour and is applying portfolio regulation analysis, and commercial trials. His research has been funded insurance and engineering. project that created a detailed focuses on process improvement optimisation to understand the retail portfolio energy trading and risk by UK ESRC, ARC, AusAID (DFAT) knowledge base regarding energy and innovation across operations and demand and supply implications of management (ETRM). and IGC, European Commission, and Expertise use, energy savings potential and supply chains covering many sectors. low-emission microgrids. World Bank. Quantitative and behavioral factors impeding implementation for Expertise finance, financial econometrics, Australia’s industrial companies. Expertise Expertise Market modelling, price forecasting, Expertise computational stochastic Strategy (manufacturing, operations), Environmental and natural resource economic regulation Development economics, field mechanics, finance Expertise management (information, quality, economics, climate change experiments, social networks Strategy, sustainability issues, carbon supply chain), agile production adaptation, environmental policy abatement opportunities, associated systems policies

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Professor Christian Jakob Dr David Holmes Dr Diane Kraal Associate Professor Dr Gordon Leslie Associate Professor Gerry Nagtzaam Guillaume Roger FACULTY OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF ARTS FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EARTH, ATMOSPHERE AND SCHOOL OF MEDIA, FILM AND BUSINESS LAW AND TAXATION FACULTY OF LAW ECONOMICS FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENT JOURNALISM LAW RESOURCES CENTRE FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Professor Christian Jacob is a climate Dr David Holmes is the Founder Dr Diane Kraal focuses on the Associate Professor Gerry Nagtzaam Dr Gordon Leslie’s fields of study Associate Professor Guillaume scientist and currently the Deputy and Director of the Climate Change evaluation of taxation concessions, is a world recognised environmental are industrial organisation and Roger focuses on optimisation Director of the Australian Research Communication Research Hub. He is subsidies and policy for natural and scholar both domestically and energy economics. His current methods, financial economics and Council’s Centre of Excellence for co-editor of the forthcoming Edward renewable resources. Her latest internationally. His research focuses research examines issues relating to the economics of financial markets Climate System Science. He is Elgar Handbook in Communicating research uses the framework of on the intersections between competition, policy and consumer and regulations. He has written interested in how scientists around Climate Change. David conducts energy justice. Diane led the Monash environmental law, politics, history and engagement in a selection of energy publications in economic journals the world can work better together extensive field research into audience team to the ‘Just Transition to a Low economics. He has written a number and energy derivative markets. such as the Journal of Mathematical to improve climate models. He has views of climate change beliefs, Carbon Economy’ conference in 2018 of well received books on topics Economics. He has received grants worked for organisations such as the literacy and behaviour response. In in Edinburgh, and in 2019 in the West including international environmental Expertise including the Australian Research United States Department of Energy, Marrakech 2016 he was co-Head Indies. Both covered global impacts treaties and their normative treatment, Energy economics, competition Council Discovery Project Grant, the European Centre for Medium- of Monash’s UNFCCC Delegation to of climate change. Diane is a CI in nuclear waste disposal in democratic policy, electricity markets, carbon Centre for International Finance and Range Weather Forecasts, and the COP22 and an accredited journalist the Monash team for the ‘Reliable states, and a forthcoming book on markets, environmental economics, Regulation Grant, and Group of Bureau of Meteorology. Christian’s reporting on the Paris Climate Summit Affordable Clean Energy’ (RACE) for the phenomenon of ecoterrorism. environmental policy 8-DAAD Research Grant. He has also research focuses on computer models (COP21) for The Conversation in 2030 CRC, where her tax law and He has written extensively on the been invited to over 50 seminars and of Earth’s atmosphere, and how they 2015. David was columnist for The energy justice research will focus issue of whaling and global bio conferences in the last 10 years. are used in weather forecasting, Conversation communicating the on energy and water. In 2018 Diane diversity loss. Associate Professor seasonal climate predictions and relationship between political climates, received the Monash Business School Nagtzaam is a member of the Law simulations of our current and future media power and climate change. Dean’s Commendation for Research Institute of Victoria’s International Law Expertise climate. Impact. Committee. Energy markets, policy Expertise Expertise Climate change media and politics Expertise Expertise Climate modelling, clouds and Taxation policy and reform using International environmental law, convection, tropical convection, qualitative and quantitative research Australian environmental law, climate Australian climate methods change, ecoterrorism

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Professor Lata Gangadharan Dr Lennon Chang Associate Professor Liang C Wang Associate Professor Mahdi Abolghasemi Associate Professor Ly-Fie Sugianto Megan Farrelly FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS FACULTY OF ARTS FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS FACULTY OF INFORMATION ECONOMICS CRIMINOLOGY ECONOMICS FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF ARTS MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING AND DATA SCIENCE AND AI SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Professor Lata Gangadharan’s Dr Lennon Chang is interested Associate Professor Choon Wang Associate Professor Ly-Fie Sugianto Mahdi Abolghasemi is a research Associate Professor Megan Farrelly research in the area of environmental in researching cybercrime, cyber is interested in a wide range of has expertise in applying data fellow in Data Science currently undertakes research within the economics has direct relevance to security, regulation and governance topics in the areas of the economics analytics and AI techniques to working on renewable energy broad fields of environmental and formulating policies for improving of new technologies and cyberspace. of education, labour economics, study the competitive behaviour forecasting. He received his PhD natural resource governance. She environmental quality locally as One of his key research areas focuses development economics, public in the Australian electricity market. in statistics from the University of examines the policy and governance well as globally. She has designed on how to reduce concerns and economics, and health economics. He Ly-Fie’s research in Data Analytics Newcastle, Australia and has a processes and pathways for crafting experiments to understand issues relating to incident reporting often uses field or natural experiments and AI applications in the electricity background in engineering. He is sustainable urban transformations. attitudes towards corruption, design when building a feasible computer as well as observational data to study industry, and technology adoption interested in communicating science Her research focuses on the role of appropriate institutions for credit incident reporting scheme to protect the determinants of the education, studies, have been funded by a and applying knowledge to real-world experimentation and demonstration provision in developing countries and critical infrastructure. He also health, and labour market outcomes number grants, including the ARC problems. His research interests projects (technical and governance measure trust and trustworthiness promotes cybersecurity awareness of individuals in both developed and (SPIRT/Linkage) grant, the Australia include forecasting, decision making, oriented), policy mechanisms and the between individuals in economic and cyber hygiene, especially in the developing countries. Choon has Indonesia Governance Research business analytics, data science and institutional drivers of change to assist transactions. She has published Indo-Pacific region. He is the founder also provided technical and policy Partnership (AIGRP) grant and the machine learning. He is passionate in delivering changes to policy and on- extensively in reputed journals such of Cyberbaykin: Myanmar Cyber assistance to various governments Sumitomo Foundation grant. Her about multi-disciplinary research ground practices across public and as the American Economic Review, Security Awareness campaign and is and has published in international research projects include exploring where he can apply his knowledge private organisations. Her research Science, European Economic Review, a co-founder and vice chairman of the refereed journals. the effectiveness of deregulated and help researchers and industries broadly seeks to generate key Nature Communications, Journal of Asia-Pacific Association of Technology electricity industry using agent based from different disciplines to solve institutional and policy strategies to Public Economics, and the Journal and Society. Expertise models and discovering emergence problems effectively. expedite Australia’s energy transition. of Environmental Economics and Digital sociology and gaming behaviour in competitive Management among others. Expertise market. Expertise Expertise Cybercrime, critical infrastructure Forecasting, data science, machine Environmental governance, policy and Expertise protection, public-private Expertise learning, business analytics, supply planning, sustainability transitions, Environmental economics and policy, collaboration, regulation and Dispatch optimisation, strategic chain management experimentation and innovation social preferences governance of new technology bidding, intelligent systems, systems, evaluation and learning, and reinforcement learning, agent-based sustainable urban (water and energy) modelling, simulation, demand transformations forecasting, price forecasting

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Dr Mita Bhattacharya Professor Rob Raven Robert Neville Kelly Professor Robert Thomson Associate Professor Ruth Lane Professor Simon Wilkie

FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS MONASH SUSTAINABLE MONASH SUSTAINABLE FACULTY OF ARTS FACULTY OF ARTS FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN GEOGRAPHY CLIMATEWORKS AUSTRALIA RELATIONS E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Dr Mita Bhattacharya has published Professor Rob Raven is the Rob Kelly leads ClimateWorks’ Professor Robert Thomson’s research Associate Professor Ruth Lane’s Professor Simon Wilkie is the Dean of widely in peer-reviewed journals research director at the Monash Pathways and Investment program, focuses on international comparisons research focuses on the intersections the Faculty of Business & Economics including in energy Economics, Sustainable Development Institute, supporting better decision making of democratic representation, between social change, environmental at Monash and Head of Monash International Journal of Industrial and professor of institutions and regarding long-term decarbonisation and various forms of international degradation and environmental Business School. His research Organisation, International Journal societal transitions at the Copernicus policy and strategy for businesses, governance. In one area of ongoing governance. She has examined this has particularly focused on game of Production Economics, World Institute for Sustainable Development, governments and investors. Rob research, Robert and his colleagues through studies of the consumption of theory, its application to business Economy, Review of Industrial Utrecht University. His interest is in has led the development of climate are examining the conditions under goods and materials, and associated strategy, economic and regulatory Organisation and in Applied energy. sustainability transitions and socio- scenarios used for risk assessment which politicians keep and break issues of waste, reuse and materials policy design, and the economics She has received numerous internal technical innovation. His empirical for some of Australia’s largest the promises they make to voters recycling (Lane and Gorman-Murray of the communications industries. grants and external grants from work has covered energy and mobility companies and advising government’s when they enter government office. 2011), and of the social and cultural He has had a career in roles that the Australian Research Council, transition processes in both Europe on appropriate long term energy In another area, Robert and his aspects of land use change in extend beyond the higher education Tyre Australia and National Science and Asia. He has published over and emissions targets. Rob was colleagues are seeking to understand rural and regional Australia and its sphere and include appointments Council (Taiwan). Bhattacharya is 50 scientific articles on these topics a co-author and senior analyst for negotiations in the European biodiversity consequences. Lane has as Chief Economic Policy Strategist the recipient of the annual award and recently was co-editor of ‘The ClimateWorks’ ‘Pathways to Deep Union and how the EU operates developed an interest in the interface at Microsoft Corporation and Chief in 2017 from the Applied Energy Experimental City’ (2016). His current Decarbonisation in 2050’ report. on the international stage. He is between social science research on Economist with the US Federal Society for her research on renewable research agenda is focussed on Prior to ClimateWorks, he worked author of Resolving Controversy in consumption and socio-technical Communications Commission. Simon energy sources. She has held visiting analysis of transformative change in at Bloomberg New Energy Finance the European Union (Cambridge transitions and industrial ecology is widely published on the subjects positions in the Australian National urban context such as eco-cities and and KPMG. He holds an MBA, a University Press), and a series assessments of material flows and of spectrum auctions, game theory University, Curtin University, Doshisha smart cities. Master of Environment and a Bachelor of articles and book chapters on environmental footprints. and telecommunications regulation in University, University of East Anglia of Commerce/Bachelor of Science national, EU, and international politics. leading scholarly journals. and in the OECD. Expertise (Hons). Expertise Sustainability transitions, socio- Expertise Intersections between social Expertise Expertise technical innovation, energy and Expertise International comparisons of change, environmental degradation, Energy markets, game theory, Applied industrial organisation, mobility transition Long-term decarbonisation policy and democratic representation, various environmental governance business strategy, economic and international trade and energy strategy for businesses, governments forms of international governance regulatory policy design economics and investors

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Associate Professor Associate Professor Vinod Mishra Dr Wendy Stubbs Dr Yuan-Fang Li Srinivas Sridharan FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS FACULTY OF ARTS FACULTY OF FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ECONOMICS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MARKETING DATA SCIENCE AND AI E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Associate Professor Srinivas Associate Professor Vinod Mishra Dr Wendy Stubbs’ research seeks to Dr Yuan-Fang Li’s research interests Sridharan has a global academic is an Applied Economist with a understand how business can more include knowledge graphs, experience across India, USA, research focus on the resources and holistically address its environmental, ontology reasoning and knowledge Canada and Australia. He conducts energy economics-related issues social and economic responsibilities. representation, natural language research on the impact of markets in developing countries. His past Her PhD in corporate sustainability processing, representation learning on quality of life and has published in research has looked at energy policy developed a ‘sustainability business (embedding) of networks/graphs. international journals of high quality and energy security in pacific island model’ that integrates sustainability Some of the research problems in marketing and interdisciplinary nations, the impact of environmental into the core business model. This he works on include structural areas. He has taught using the conditions on subjective well being of research is recognised as pioneering and temporal learning for hospital case method and dialogic inquiry people in China, sectoral convergence in the field of business models for readmission risk prediction, question across undergraduate, masters, and in Australia’s Energy Consumption, sustainability, and her research generation from text and knowledge PhD programs, and uses systems long-run relation between carbon continues to explore business models graphs, complex question answering thinking concepts and statistical, emission and income inequality that are grounded in the principles of over knowledge graphs, learning to ethnographic, and participatory and predictability of energy prices. sustainability. improve ontology reasoning efficiency, action research methods. In a recent His current research looks at the and intuitive and scalable visualisation project, he studied how subsistence role played by electricity access in Expertise of non-hierarchy associations in large entrepreneurs in India break out achieving the development goals Corporate sustainability and ontologies. of poverty and transform their of health, education and poverty responsibility, sustainability reporting, businesses and their communities. alleviation in developing and integrated reporting, purpose Expertise underdeveloped countries. ecosystems Knowlege graphs, natural language Expertise processing, software engineering Marketing systems, entrepreneurship, Expertise emerging markets, marketing strategy, Development economics, financial sanitation, energy transitions, energy- economics, energy and ecology- food-water nexus analysis (industrial related issues for emerging ecology) economies

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Professor Chris Davies Professor Chris Hutchinson Professor Chris McNeill Dr Gaveshana Sepalage Professor Gil Garnier Professor Jacek Jasieniak

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE MATERIALS SCIENCE AND MATERIALS SCIENCE AND SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ENGINEERING ENGINEERING ENGINEERING E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Professor Chris Davies is the Head Professor Christopher Hutchinson’s Professor Chris McNeill’s interests Dr Gaveshana Spelage is a researcher Professor Gil Garnier is the Director of Professor Jacek Jasieniak is the of the Department of Mechanical research covers all aspects of the include organic electronic devices in low-cost solar cell fabrication and the Australian Pulp and Paper Institute Director of the Monash Energy and Aerospace Engineering, and metallurgy of engineering alloys. such as polymer solar cells and their material/device characterisation. (APPI). His current research interests Institute. His research interests a Chief Investigator in the ARC Christopher’s emphasis is on organic field-effect transistors, as He is working on developing are focused on the application of include the development of nanoscale Centre of Excellence for Design manipulation of the chemistry and well as structural characterisation of alternative electrodes and hole colloids and polymers to surfaces, materials and their application to in Light Metals. His research processing of engineering alloys to organic semiconductor films using transport materials for perovskite adhesion, composites, and the various next-generation energy focuses on understanding the role create new alloy structures that exhibit synchrotron-based techniques. He solar cells, which is a new class of process of paper making. At APPI technologies that enable lower cost of crystallographic texture in the improved combinations of mechanical has been awarded a number of high- solar cells involving cheaper materials he is head of a multidisciplinary team and a greater supply of renewable deformation of light metals and alloys, properties such as strength, profile fellowships including an EPSRC to compete with the dominant which uses nanotechnology for energy across the world. and modelling the effects of texture elongation, impact, wear and fatigue Advanced Research Fellowship to Silicon solar cells in the market. surface engineering, bioprinting and and microstructure on mechanical etc. Professor Hutchinson was a support his work in Cambridge, an He completed a PhD scholarship the development of novel specialty Expertise behaviour. He has received several recipient of an ARC Future Fellowship ARC Future Fellowship and a veski at Monash, and gained industry papers. Functional materials, colloids, awards for commercialisation of in the inaugural round of 2009, was a innovation fellowship to enable him experience as a Chemist. He is now interfaces, thin films, microstructure, magnesium alloys. Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre to establish his research activities in a Post-Doctoral fellow at School of Expertise printing, photophysics, conduction, of Excellence for Design in Light Australia. Chemistry at Monash and affiliated Biorefinery, cellulose composites, sensors, electrodes, solar cells Expertise Metals (2005-2013) and is currently a to the ARC centre of excellence in sustainable processes Computational materials engineering, Chief Investigator in the ARC Industry Expertise exciton science. deformation of light metals and Transformation Training Centre in Alloy Organic field-effect transistors, alloys, modelling the effects of texture Innovation for Mining Efficiency (2016- organic semiconductors, polymer Expertise and microstructure on mechanical 2021). solar cells, synchrotron radiation, Solar cell fabrication, material behaviour X-ray microscopy synthesis and charcterisation Expertise Physical metallurgy, mechanical metallurgy, modelling and simulation of materials, steel, aluminium alloys, 3D metal printing

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Dr Jesper Levinsen Professor Jianfeng Nie Dr Julie Karel Associate Professor Kei Saito Dr Kevin Rietwyk Professor Kiyonori Suzuki

FACULTY OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING SCHOOL OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY MATERIALS SCIENCE AND MATERIALS SCIENCE AND SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ENGINEERING ENGINEERING E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Dr Jesper Fredenslund Levinsen’s Professor Jianfeng Nie’s research Dr Julie Karel’s research focuses Associate Professor Kei Saitoi’s Dr Kevin Rietwyk is an expert in the Professor Kiyonori Suzuki’s research research focuses on strongly interests include design and on utilising either thin film growth research areas of interests include characterisation of semiconducting is primarily directed towards interacting quantum systems on the development of light alloys, techniques or application of developing new synthesis and materials and thin film electronic the magnetic properties of non- interface between condensed matter crystallography of phase external electric fields to control the production methods for novel devices, particularly photovoltaics. equilibrium and metastable materials, physics and the physics of ultracold transformations and applications of magnetic or electronic properties sustainable/environment benign His interests lie in the optical and with particular emphasis placed atomic gases. He works on aspects of transmission electron microscopy. of advanced functional materials. materials and alternative energy electronic properties of perovskite on nanostructured materials for superfluidity, impurities in degenerate He has published over 100 papers She is particularly interested in the materials based on the principles of solar cells and developing advanced electromagnetic device applications. quantum gases, few-body physics, in international journals. He has held electronic modifications in materials Green Chemistry. Green chemistry characterisation tools for routine high- Key elements involved in this area and low-dimensional systems. A roles including being a member of the resulting from application of very is an academic field in chemistry throughput analysis. Dr Rietwyk joined of research are nanostructure- particular subject which fascinates Board of Review, Metallurgical and large electric fields during liquid that is concerned with the design of the Bach group at Monash University magnetic properties relationships, him is the interplay between few – Materials Transactions, former Chair of electrolyte gating and how to utilise safe processes and products, and after completing a Marie Curie nanostructural formation mechanisms and many – body physics in strongly Phase Transformations Committee of these changes to make novel when used in material production, individual fellowship in the Zaban and magnetism in nanostructured correlated systems. TMS, and Chair of the National Events computing devices. Formerly, Dr Karel the new material should not only be laboratory in Israel, investigating metal systems (e.g. random anisotropy Committee of Materials Australia. worked as a Materials Engineer for more environmentally benign but oxide photovoltaics. and exchange-spring effects). Suzuki Expertise Intel Corporation in the USA. She also perform as well and be more is also interested in other functional Superfluidity, low-dimensional Expertise obtained her PhD (2012) in MSE from economical than alternative materials. Expertise materials in the area of sustainable systems, impurities in degenerate Physical metallurgy of light alloys, the University of California Berkeley Thin film device and semiconductor energy technologies such as quantum gases structure/property relationships in and carried out her postdoctoral Expertise characterisation, metal oxides, hydrogen storage and permeation metallic alloys, crystallography of research at the Max Planck Institute Alternative energy materials surface/interface science alloys. phase transformation in solids for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany. Expertise Non-equilibrium and metastable Expertise materials, with particular emphasis Thin film growth, nanostructuring and placed on nanostructured materials device fabrication, magnetic materials, for electromagnetic device liquid electrolyte gating applications

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Dr Laszlo Frazer Professor Lei Jiang Dr Mahdokht Shaibani Professor Mainak Majumder Dr Mark Edmonds Associate Professor Meera Parish

FACULTY OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF SCIENCE SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE SCHOOL OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY SCHOOL OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY ENGINEERING ENGINEERING E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Dr Laszlo Frazer is discovering new Professor Lei Jiang has interests in Dr Mahdokht Shaibani is an energy Professor Mainak Majumder applies Dr Mark Edmonds is a lecturer and Associate Professor Meera Marjorie scattering processes that work bio-inspired Multi-scale Interface storage solution provider. She has fundamentals of materials science, a former recipient of an Australian Parish’s research is broadly focused around fundamental limitations on the Materials (Special Wettability). He expertise in materials synthesis, notably carbon, to emerging and Research Council Discovery Early on the theory of strongly correlated efficiency of classical photovoltaics. invented a variety of new methods to engineering, and scale-up for next- multidisciplinary areas of separation Career Research Award. He is an phenomena in ultracold atomic The current roll-out of photovoltaics is reveal the mechanism of super-hydro- generation energy storage systems engineering and energy storage associate investigator in ARC Centre gases and electron systems. transforming our energy infrastructure, phobicity on the surface of organisms; including lithium-sulphur batteries, and in doing so, creates scientific for Excellence Future Low Energy She’s particularly interested in but classical photovoltaics have bionic multi-scale interface materials, silicon anodes, flow batteries, and business opportunities. He has Electronic Technologies (FLEET). His superconductivity and superfluidity, fundamental limitations on their nano-channels Construction supercapacitors, and lithium-ion developed an international reputation research group studies topological low-dimensional systems and efficiency. and application; bionic intelligent capacitors. Mahdokht has conducted for inventing innovative fabrication insulators and topological dirac dimensional crossovers, and nano-channel construction and its research in developing expansion- and processing methods, grounded semimetals, and interfaces them magnetotransport. Expertise application in the field of energy tolerant architectures for high capacity on strong fundamentals, with impact with ferromagnetic insulators. They Optical properties of materials conversion. electrodes such as sulphur and in a wide gamut of engineering study the electronic properties Expertise silicon, fabrication of separators, applications for e.g. membrane- with angle-resolved photoelectron Ultracold atomic gases, Expertise synthesis of graphene and carbon based separations, supercapacitors, spectroscopy (ARPES), scanning magnetotransport, superconductivity Demand-side mangement materials for supercapacitors, batteries, strain sensors, micro-/nano- tunnelling microscopy (STM) and low- and superfluidity recovery of silicon from PV scraps, fluidics and anti-corrosion coatings. temperature magnetotransport. and exploring the use of lithium- He is a nationally recognised leader in sulphur batteries for more sustainable industry engagement and translational Expertise and clean transportation and grid research on graphene. His track Topological materials, angle resolved storage. She has a PhD in Mechanical record and standing in this topical photoelectron spectroscopy, Engineering, with a focus on energy area is such that he has continually synchrotron, 2D materials storage from Monash University. received ARC funding.

Expertise Expertise Emerging energy storage Graphene-based materials, technologies, lithium-sulphur battery, electrochemical energy storage, silicon electrodes, supercapacitors nanofluidics, carbon nanotubes and lithium-ion capacitors, recycling and repurposing of solar panel wastes

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Dr Meysam Mirshekarloo Professor Michael Fuhrer Dr Narendra Pai Dr Naresh Chandrasekaran Associate Professor Dr Nirmal Peiris Nikhil Medhekar FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE SCHOOL OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MATERIALS SCIENCE AND FACULTY OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ENGINEERING MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING E: [email protected] E: [email protected] ENGINEERING E: meysam.sharifzadehmirshekarloo@ E: naresh.chandrasekaran@monash. E: [email protected] monash.edu edu E: [email protected]

Dr Meysam Sharifzadeh Mirshekarloo Professor Michael Fuhrer is an Dr Narendra Pai concluded his PhD Dr Naresh Chandrasekaran joined the Associate Professor Nikhil Medhekar’s Dr Nirmal Peiris graduated from is an engineer with many years ARC Laurete Fellow and directs research on developing solution Materials Science and Engineering research interests lie in a broad area Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, Sri of experience in the design and the ARC Centre of Excellence for processible lead-free solar cells department on August 2015 as a joint of computational mechanics and Lanka with a first-class honours implementation of various devices Future Low-Energy Electronics at Monash University in July 2019 PhD student between Indian Institute materials science and his research degree in Chemistry in 2010. In and prototypes. This includes energy Technologies (FLEET) and co-directs under the guidance of Dr Alexandr of Technology Bombay and Monash group is particularly interested 2014, he obtained his PhD from storage devices (supercapacitors and the Monash Centre for Atromically Simonov and Late Professor Leone University. He completed his PhD from in understanding the structure, Loughborough University, UK. In batteries), sensors, actuators, fluid jet Thin Materials. Before coming to Spiccia. Adjunctive to his PhD Physics and Materials Science and properties and processing of the same year, he was awarded dispensers, and transparent speakers. Monash, he directed the Center for research, he was awarded post- Engineering departments in October materials at nano- and micro-scale the best graduate student prize of He focuses on design and fabrication Nanophysics and Advanced Materials graduate publication scholarship 2018. He is one among the youngest using computer simulations. The the University for his achievements of new devices and products from at the University of Maryland. by the School of Chemistry. Prior graduates from the collaborative computational tools that he employs gained during his PhD. He then new materials. He has worked closely Fuhrer is a Fellow of the American to his PhD research, he has spent program to have graduate at the are multi-disciplinary – ranging from conducted his post-doctoral research with industry partners on projects Association for the Advancement of time on developing photoanodes age of 25. He has received several the quantum mechanical electronic at the Loughborough University with high TRL level (~7), some of the Science and the American Physical for dye-sensitised solar cells as part awards including Nationals Photonics structure simulations, to large-scale and the University of Tokyo, Japan outcomes being pushed for scale up Society. His research explores of graduate research back in India. Fellowship and Monash Energy molecular dynamics, phase-field successively. In 2017, he joined and commercialisation. novel two-dimensional materials Currently, Narendra is enthusiastic Materials and System Institute and finite element simulations. AkzoNobel UK as a Scientist before such as graphene, the two- about developing novel lead-free grant award during his research Current research interests are joining Monash University. His current Expertise dimensional surface state of three- perovskite materials as part of his carrier. He currently has more than focused on material systems crucial research focuses on developing Energy storage devices dimensional topological insulators Australian Centre for Advanced seven years of research experience for optoelectronics and energy charge-transporting inks for printable (supercapacitors and batteries), (e.g. Bi2Se3), other two dimensional Photovoltaics (ACAP) fellowship at in developing and characterising applications. perovskite solar modules by scalable sensors, actuators semiconductors, metals, and Bach group. novel organic and inorganic printing techniques. superconductors. semiconducting optoelectronic Expertise Expertise devices. Naresh’s current research Structure, properties and procesing Expertise Expertise Metal oxides, sulfides and iodides involves developing novel solution- of materials at nano and micro-scale Charge-transporting inks, perovskite 2D materials such as graphene, synthesis, novel lead-free perovskite processed optoelectronic devices using computer simulations solar modules, scalable printing 2D surface state of 3D topological materials, device fabrication and and understanding the charge carrier techniques insulators, 2D semiconductors, characterisation dynamics inside these devices. metals, superconductors Expertise Solar cells, device physics, optoelectronics, charge carrier dynamics, microstructural characterisation, flexible electronics 60 MONASH ENERGY PROFILE MONASH ENERGY PROFILE 61 MATERIALS AND DEVICES

Dr Parama Banerjee Professor Raman Singh Dr Robbie Napper Dr Sebastian Furer Dr Sebastian Thomas Associate Professor Selby Coxon

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ART, FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ART, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MATERIALS SCIENCE AND DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE DESIGN ENGINEERING DESIGN E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Dr Parama Banerjee has always been Professor Raman Singh’s Dr Robbie Napper is the Deputy Dr Sebastian Furer’s research Dr Sebastian Thomas’ research Associate Professor Selby Coxon is fascinated by the electrochemical primary research interests are Director of the Mobility Design is focused on the synthesis and covers all aspects related to the the Director of the Mobility Design processes, particularly in the areas in the relationship of nano-/ Lab. Since joining Monash, he has development of new materials for materials durability. This includes Lab hosted by the Department of of energy storage, conversion and microstructure and environment- developed expertise in the design next generation renewable energy work investigating the macro/ Design at MADA. His professional corrosion. This fascination led her assisted degradation and fracture and manufacture of public transport technologies. His current research micro-structural scale corrosion career spans over thirty years working Monash University to pursue a PhD of metallic and composite materials, vehicles. He led the design and involves copper electrolytes mechanisms prevalent in additively for both the corporate sector; Philips examining the effect of various surface and nanotechnology for advanced development of Australia’s most for sensitised solar cells, hole- manufactured alloys, magnesium Electronics and Schlumberger and modifications on the electrochemical mitigation of such degradations. He widely adopted route bus, the transporting materials for perovskite alloys, galvanised steels, stainless private consultancy; IDC and Anglo kinetics of a degrading metal surface. has also worked extensively on use VolgrenOptimus. Robbie is an active solar cells, interface and surface steels, aluminium alloys and also Nordic Design in Europe, Scandinavia After her PhD, she integrated her of advanced materials (e.g. graphene) member of the US National Academy engineering through self-assembled nickel alloys. It also includes work on and Australia. His research interests knowledge in electrochemistry with for corrosion mitigation, and stress of Science’s Transportation Research monolayers and lead-free perovskite the development of industry-scale concern improvements and far carbon-based nanomaterials and corrosion cracking, and corrosion and Board, in the fields of Bus Transit materials. corrosion sensing, monitoring and reaching ambitious interventions in the ventured into the field of energy corrosion-mitigation of magnesium Systems, and Transit Capacity and protection methods (such as cathodic design of mobility, particularly public storage and conversion. Her alloys. He has been engaged in Quality of Service, and an Associate of Expertise protection and coatings). He also transport. He has also undertaken current research interest includes, many consulting activities including Monash University’s Public Transport Chemical synthesis, perovskite solar has specific expertise in fundamental research projects for organisations electrochemistry of various interfaces, corrosion of coated steels (Orica Research Group. cells, dye-sensitised solar cells electrochemistry and electroanalytical including; Metro Trains Melbourne, energy storage materials and Ltd, Australia), caustic hardening of chemistry, which led him to develop Yarra Trams, Volgren, Transdev, systems, advanced carbon based polymer components used for alumina Expertise several state-of-the-art techniques General Motors and SNCF (the French materials, corrosion, functional processing (BHP Billiton), and ex- Styling, aesthetics, and user to unravel the structure-property National Railway). coatings and nanotechnology and service steel components in caustic experience of public transport (electric relationships of materials in the nanomaterials. environments in alumina processing vehicle and buses) context of corrosion. Expertise (Queensland Alumina Ltd). Automation and driverless vehicles, Expertise Expertise user experience, passenger transport, Electrochemistry, energy, batteries, Expertise Corrosion, electrochemistry, zinc, new energy systems supercapacitors, 2D materials, Corrosion, corrosion mitigation, stress modelling carbon, coatings, corrosion, corroision-cracking, nanocrystalline nanomaterials, nanotechnology alloys, graphene coatings

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Associate Professor Dr Tian Zhang Dr Toby Bell Professor Udo Bach Dr Wenchao Huang Dr Wenping Yin Sudha Mokkapati FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY MATERIALS SCIENCE AND MATERIALS SCIENCE AND MATERIALS SCIENCE AND MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ENGINEERING ENGINEERING ENGINEERING E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Associate Professor Sudha Dr Tian Zhang’s research focuses on Dr Toby Bell is interested in Professor Udo Bach is the Deputy Wenchao Huang received his B.E. Dr Wenping Yin joined the department Mokkapati’s did her PhD on the fabrication and characterisation of discovering the fundamental Director of ARC Centre of Excellence (Hons) and PhD from Monash of Materials Science and Engineering monolithic integration of compound thin film semiconductor materials for photophysical properties of new in Exciton Science and an ANFF-VIC University. After his postdoctoral at Monash University, and the ARC semiconductor quantum dot based photovoltaic applications. At Monash, materials at the single molecule Technology Fellow at the Melbourne fellow training at University of Centre of Excellence in Exciton optoelectronic devices at the he is investigating the vacuum-based level, understanding how energy Centre of Nanofabrication. He California Los Angeles and University Science (ACEx) in 2018 as a research Australian National University, then thin film perovskite materials and is transported around in multi- received his PhD from the Swiss of Tokyo, he held an appointment fellow. Her research interests include joined the Centre for Sustainable the electron/hole transport layers to chromophoric dye molecules, polymer Federal Institute of Technology as a research fellow at Monash photoluminescent chemical sensors Energy Systems at the Australian realise the high efficiency tandem chains and nanoparticles, and using (EPFL, Switzerland) and worked University, funded by an ACAP and metal halide perovskite base National University as a post-doctoral solar cells in perovskite/Si and SM techniques to address biophysical in a technology start-up company fellowship. His current research optoelectronics. Prior to the position researcher. There she developed perovskite/perovskite structures. problems such as protein folding, in Dublin, Ireland. Prof Bach has a interests include organic flexible in Australia, she was a visiting photon management strategies aggregation and conformational strong background in the area of electronics such as photovoltaics, researcher in the Institute of Physics, for thin film solar cells based on Expertise change. photovoltaics and nanofabrication. He photodetectors and thin-film Chinese Academy of Science (China) amorphous Si, crystalline Si and III-V Thin film semiconductor materials for is involved in fundamental and applied transistors and characterisation and Chemical Physics Department, quantum-dot absorbers. She then photovoltaic applications Expertise research in the area of perovskite of thin films by using synchrotron- Lund University (Sweden) for worked as a Super Science Fellow Single molecule spectroscopy, time and dye-sensitised solar cells. He based techniques. He has a strong systematic training on progressive and a Research Fellow, developing resolved fluorescence, energy transfer, has additional research activities in background on the manipulation of temporal spectra. Dr Wenping Yin has nanowire optoelectronic devices photons the area of nanofabrication, DNA- the chemistry and microstructure completed a masters and PhD course at the Research School of Physics directed self-assembly, nanoprinting, to enhance the optoelectronic and in Engineering, from the department and Engineering, Australian National plasmonics for sensing, and mechanical properties of flexible of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University. Her current research combinatorial photovoltaic materials organic electronics. Recognitions University (SKKU), S. Korea. interests include semiconductor discovery. for his research include Australian nano-photonics, nano-lasers and Synchrotron Stephen Wilkins Medal. Expertise nanostructured solar cells. Expertise Photoluminescent chemical sensors; Dye-sensitised tandem solar cells, Expertise photovoltaics (PVs), light-emitting Expertise back-contact dye-sensitised solar Organic and organic-inorganic diodes (LEDs) Semiconductor nano-photonics, cells, novel electrolytes for dye- hybrid optoelectronic devices such nano-lasers and nanostructured solar sensitised tandem solar cells, new as photovoltaic, thin-film transistors cells infrared sensitisers for dye-sensitised and photodetectors, flexible and solar cells stretchable electronics, device physics, thin film microstructural characterisation, synchrotron radiation

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Dr Wenxin Mao Professor Xinhua Wu Dr Xiongfeng Lin Dr Yinlong Zhu

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF ENGINEERING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MATERIALS SCIENCE AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ENGINEERING E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Dr Wenxin Mao’s research topic is Professor Xinhua Wu is the Pro-Vice Dr Xiongfeng Lin is currently a Dr Yinlong Zhu is currently a controlling the growth of lead halide Chancellor (Precinct Partnerships) postdoctoral research fellow in the DECRA Research Fellow. He perovskite single crystals and studying at Monash University and Director Department of Chemical Engineering, received PhD degree in Materials the photo-electric properties of of Monash International Advanced Monash University. He completed his and Chemical Engineering from trihalide and mixed halide perovskites. Manufacturing Hub. Xinhua has Bachelor degree (Hons) at Central Nanjing Tech University in July at He is a researcher within the Centre pioneered systematic fundamental South University (China) and Monash 2017. His research interests focus of Excellence in Exciton Science and materials research to transform University (Australia). He received his on “Developing advanced functional explores the potentials of lead haldie the 3D printing technique from PhD from Monash, working in the materials for electrochemical energy perovskites in solar concentrators. producing artefacts to manufacturing research group of Prof Udo Bach in applications”. components for aerospace 2019. His research interests focus Expertise applications and by designing on interfacial modification and back- Expertise Excitonic systems for solar energy microstructurally enhanced non- contact perovskite photovoltaic Perovskite oxides, structure conversion equilibrium light alloys. She conducted devices. tunning, electrocatalysis, fuel cells, ground breaking research to use 3D water splitting, energy storage and printing to print the world’s first full Expertise transformation size jet engine in 2014 and achieved Interfacial modification and back- international aerospace qualification contact perovskite photovoltaic for 3D printed Ti components for devices civil aircraft applications in 2017. Collectively Xinhua has brought in more than $100m of research funding.

Expertise Advanced materials engineering, alloys, light metals, hybrid materials, materials design, physical metal, direct laser deposition, laser additive manufacturing, net shape hipping, powder processing, lasers

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Dr Adel N Toosi Dr Aldeida Aleti Associate Professor Professor Andreas Ernst Professor Ann Nicholson Dr Arnaud Prouzeau Anastasios Panagiotelis FACULTY OF FACULTY OF FACULTY OF SCIENCE FACULTY OF FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND ECONOMETRICS AND BUSINESS DATA SCIENCE AND AI HUMAN CENTRED COMPUTING (HCC) CYBERSECURITY CYBERSECURITY STATISTICS E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: anastasios.panagiotelis@monash. edu

Dr Adel Nadjaran Toosi has joined Dr Aldeida Aleti’s research interests Associate Professor Anastasios Professor Andreas Ernst has over 20 Professor Ann Nicholson is the Dr Arnaud Prouzeau is a postdoc Faculty of Information Technology at are in the area of Automated Software Panagiotelis received his PhD from years experience in the development Deputy Dean Research in the Faculty researcher in Human-Computer Monash University in May 2018. Adel Engineering, which aims at creating the University of Sydney, and prior of optimisation and simulation models of Information Technology. Other Interaction and Visualisation at has made significant contributions to machines that write software, from to joining Monash in 2011, he to assist businesses with strategic recent leadership roles including Monash. He is a member of the the areas of resource management requirements elicitation, to design, was an Alexander von Humboldt and operational decision making. (Acting) Deputy Dean 2016-2017, and Immersive Analytics team which and software systems for cloud code generation, testing, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair He is the director of MAXIMA, the Associate Dean (Education) 2014- investigates how immersive computing. His research interests finally code repair. This involves the of Mathematical Statistics at the Monash Academy for Cross and 2016. Prof Nicholson specialises in technologies can be used to support include Distributed Systems, Cloud application and advancement of novel Technical University of Munich. His Interdisciplinary Mathematical the broad area of Artificial Intelligence. analytical reasoning and decision Computing, Software-Defined Artificial Intelligence and optimisation research interests include statistical Applications. His research interests She is a leading international making. His post doctorate focus is Networking (SDN), Green Computing, techniques. modelling and forecasting of electricity focus on scheduling and optimisation researcher in the specialised area of on building management domain and and Soft Computing. He is currently load, prices and generation. for large scale industrial applications, Bayesian networks, now the dominant exploring how immersive platforms working on resource management Expertise including high performance technology for probabilistic causal (Virtual and Augmented Reality) can for Software-Defined Networking Automated software engineering, Expertise combinatorial optimisation algorithms, modelling in intelligent systems. She be beneficial in this context. Arnaud (SDN)-enabled cloud computing fitness landscape characterisation, Hierarchical forecasting, Bayesian parallel matheuristics and network has published more than 100 peer also explores how Building Information environments. optimisation, search based software methodology, copula models optimisation. He has a record of reviewed papers, co-authored the Modelling can be adapted for such engineering applying these methods in practice in well-received book “Bayesian Artificial platforms and used to improve energy Expertise a variety of areas including the mining Intelligence”, and attracted more than efficiency of buildings. Distributed systems, cloud computing, industry, transport and logistics and $8M in research funding. She has Software-Defined Networking (SDN), energy. applied Bayesian Network technology Expertise green computing, soft computing to problem-solving in many domains Immersive visualisation, human Expertise including meteorology, epidemiology, computer interaction, immersive Operations research, optimisation, medicine, education, energy and analytics, command and control integer programming environmental science. systems

Expertise Artificial Intelligence and Bayesian reasoning

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Dr Barrett Ens Dr Behrooz Bahrani Buser Say Associate Professor Dr Chao Chen Dr Christoph Bergmeir Carsten Rudolph FACULTY OF FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HUMAN CENTRED COMPUTING (HCC) ENGINEERING DATA SCIENCE AND AI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING DATA SCIENCE AND AI CYBER SECURITY AND SYSTEMS (CSS) E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Dr Barrett Ens is currently a member Dr Behrooz Bahrani’s research Buser Say earned his PhD (2020) Associate Professor Carsten Rudolph Dr Chao Chen’s 15 years experience Dr Christoph Bergmeir’s research of the Immersive Analytics research interests include control of power under the supervision of Professor is an expert in the cybersecurity in the energy industry provides him focus is time series forecasting. He group. His research interests include electronics systems, applications Scott Sanner on the topic of optimal issues that accompany peer-to-peer with a deep understanding of the received a MSc degree in Computer novel input methods for augmented of power electronics in power and planning with deep neural networks, trading schemes like those being industry’s strategic, commercial and Science from the University of Ulm, reality, immersive analytics, and traction systems, and grid integration a MASc (2016) on the topic of least- considered for “smart grid” based regulatory drivers which are essential Germany, in 2008, and a PhD degree situated data visualisation. During of renewable energy resources. He is commitment partial-order planning future energy delivery systems. in assessing the immediate and long from the University of Granada, Spain, his PhD work at the University of a Co-Director of the Grid Innovation under the supervision of Professor He is also Director of the Oceania term growth opportunities for network in 2013. Manitoba, he completed two research Hub. He received the Swiss National J Christopher Beck and Professor Cyber Security Centre, a collaboration businesses. In his previous role, he led internships with the User Interface Science Foundation Early Postdoc Andre Augusto Cire and a BASc in of eight Victorian Universities with a range of strategic transformational Expertise Research Group at Autodesk Mobility Fellowship in 2013, and the Industrial Engineering (2014) from the broad aim of engaging with initiatives including implementing a Machine learning, time series Research. He later worked as an Swiss National Science Foundation University of Toronto. He was also a industry to develop research and company-wide enterprise planning forecasting, R programming NSERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow Advanced Postdoc Mobility Fellowship Postgraduate Affiliate with the Vector training opportunities for dealing with system, process improvements and at UniSA’s Empathic Computing Lab. in 2014. He was a Postdoctoral Institute and a visiting researcher at cybersecurity issues. Formerly, he was acquisitions – the most notable being Fellow at several institutions including the Australian National University. head of the research department Trust the Mortlake Terminal Station. Before Expertise EPFL, Purdue University, West and Compliance at the Fraunhofer moving into the energy industry, he Immersive analytics, situated Lafayette, IN, USA, Georgia Institute Expertise Institute for Secure Information started his career as an accountant analytics, augmented reality, virtual of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, Automated planning, operations Technology SIT, Drmstadt, Germany. with Arthur Anderson and Motorola reality, spatial user interfaces and Technical University of Munich, research, neural networks Australia and New Zealand. Munich, Germany. Expertise Trusted computing, security Expertise Expertise (infrastructure, networks), digital Human-robot interaction, hybrid Power electroncis, power conversion, forensics, digital evidence electric vehicles power transmission, energy storage, microgrids, control dynamics of running machine

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Dr Christopher Rudiger Associate Professor David Dowe Professor David Green Professor Dinh Phung Dr Edward Lam Dr Frits de Nijs

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF FACULTY OF FACULTY OF FACULTY OF FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DATA SCIENCE AND AI DATA SCIENCE AND AI DATA SCIENCE AND AI DATA SCIENCE AND AI DATA SCIENCE AND AI E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Dr Christopher Rudiger’s research Associate Professor David Dowe Professor David Green is one Professor Dinh Phung is a Professor Dr Edward Lam studies operations Dr Frits de Nijs’ research interests focuses on the use of remotely works primarily in Minimum Message of Australia’s leading experts on of Machine Learning and Data research and combinatorial are in the optimisation of decisions in sensed data in environmental Length (MML) – a unifying tool in complexity theory. His proof of Science in the Faculty of Information optimisation at Monash University sequential decision-making problems, hazard and risk applications, as machine learning (computer science, universality showed that networks Technology, Monash. He is a and CSIRO Data61. His research on a necessary component of artificial well as agriculture. He is particularly artificial intelligence), statistics, underlie the structure and behaviour leading researcher at the forefront autonomous and intelligent decision- intelligence agents operating in interested in the use of land surface econometrics, inductive inference of all complex systems. Recently, of theoretical and applied machine making spans the energy, medicine dynamic systems. In particular, his parameters and their interactions (philosophy of science), data mining his theory of dual phase evolution learning with a current focus on and transportation sectors. Within the research focuses on establishing for the prediction of extreme events, and data science. explains how order emerges in generative deep learning, Bayesian energy theme, he works on optimal cooperation in situations where such as a droughts and wildfires. many natural and artificial systems. nonparametrics and graphical control, demand response and multiple such agents interact. For At Monash, he is coordinating the Expertise His research on complexity and models, optimal transport and point investment planning. example, the coordination of home “Sensors Technologies” research Human and artificial intelligence, evolutionary computing has provided process theory for machine learning. energy management systems to group that is currently developing minimum message length inference new insights in many diverse fields. He publishes regularly in the areas Expertise track renewable generation while low-cost microsensor networks for He is the author of 9 books, including of machine learning, AI and data Prescriptive analytics, intelligent maximising the home owner’s environmental monitoring, looking into Of Ants and Men (2014), Dual-Phase science. He is also a technical decision-making, optimisation, comfort. Before joining Monash in applications such as human thermal Evolution (2014), and Complexity in consultant as Director of AI Research reinforcement learning, artificial 2018, he worked on these problems wellbeing and bushfire risk monitoring. Landscape Ecology (2006). He is for Trusting Social - an AI Fintech intelligence, discrete mathematics towards a PhD degree from the also written more than 200 research company whose aim is to advance Delft University of Technology, the Expertise articles on complexity theory, data science and AI to provide Netherlands. Remote sensing, hydrology, evolutionary computing, and multi- financial access for all. climate change agent systems. Expertise Expertise Stochastic optimisation, sequential Expertise Machine learning, artificial intelligence, decision-making, reinforcement Artificial life, bioinformatics, complex deep learning, representation learning, multi-agent systems systems, distributed information learning, Bayesian statistics, graphical systems, ecology, environmental models, learning from non-stationary informatics, network theory, distributions, deep generative models, optimization, simulation, social data science, autism networks, graph theory

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Professor Geoff Webb Associate Professor Dr Guido Tack Professor Hai Vu Dr Hao Wang Dr James Saunderson Gholamreza Haffari FACULTY OF FACULTY OF FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF FACULTY OF ENGINEERING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CIVIL ENGINEERING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS DATA SCIENCE AND AI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DATA SCIENCE AND AI DATA SCIENCE AND AI ENGINEERING DATA SCIENCE AND AI E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Professor Geoff Webb is Research Associate Professor Gholamreza Dr Guido Tack is a member of the Professor Hai L Vu is an Australian Dr Hao Wang is interested in Dr James Saunderson received the Director of the Monash Data Futures (Reza) Haffari’s work is focused on Data61 Decision Sciences Group. His Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow optimisation of power and energy Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) and Insitute. He is a leading data scientist Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly research focuses on combinatorial in the area of Intelligent Transport systems, mechanism design in Bachelor of Science (Hons) degrees and the only Australian to have been in low-level perception and high- optimisation, in particular architecture Systems (ITS). He joined Monash electricity markets, applied machine from the University of Melbourne Program Committee Chair of the two level reasoning under uncertainty, and implementation techniques University in 2016 to lead the ITS learning and big data analytics in 2008. He then completed MS leading Data Mining conferences, mainly from text and potentially from for constraint solvers, translation research. Prior to that, he spent 5 for energy system planning and and PhD degrees in Electrical ACM SIGKDD and IEEE ICDM. He other data modalities such as vision of constraint modelling languages, years at the University of Melbourne operation. He was a Postdoctoral Engineering and Computer Science at was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2015 and speech. His research tackles and industrial applications. Guido’s and 11 years at Swinburne University Research Fellow at Stanford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his numerous awards include the problems such as understanding broader research interests include of Technology where he established and a Washington Research (MIT) in 2011 and 2015 respectively. inaugural Eureka Prize for Excellence and generating natural language programming languages and and led the Intelligent Transport Foundation (WRF) Innovation Fellow. Before joining Monash, he spent a in Data Science (2017). He has text, effective training of deep comstuckputational logic. He leads Systems Lab in a joint partnership He has been awarded the best paper year as a Postdoctoral scholar jointly developed many useful machine neural networks with minimal the development of the MiniZinc with VicRoads. Prof Vu is a leading award at IEEE PECON 2016 and in Electrical Engineering at Caltech learning algorithms that are widely human supervision as this powerful constraint modelling language and recognised expert with 20 years the best paper run-up at IEEE ICC and the University of Washington. deployed, has published more than technology is data hungry, and toolchain and is one of the main experience who has authored or 2017. He serves as an organisation 200 scientific papers, and has been explaining the outcome of black- developers of Gecode, a state-of-the- coauthored over 180 scientific committee member of ACM e-Energy Expertise a chief investigator on competitive box computational models in order art constraint programming library. journals and conference papers in 2019, a program committee member Convex optimisation, semidefinite grants totalling more than $24 million. to make them trustable in critical the ITS field. He is currently leading of multiple conferences, and a referee programming, signal processing, decision making scenarios such as Expertise the Smart Cities initiatives at Monash of leading journals. machine learning, mathematics, Expertise digital health. Combinatorial optimisation, constraint working on developing innovative applied mathematics – operations Bioinformatics, computational biology, solvers, translation of constraint infrastructure and platforms for smart Expertise research, applied mathematics, data analytics, data science, data Expertise modelling languages, industrial cities applications in collaboration with Optimisation, machine learning, data computational, mathematics mining, knowledge acquisition, Natural language processing, deep applications the university, Monash City Council analytics, power systems, smart grid, optimisation machine learning, user modelling learning, artificial intelligence, machine and other stakeholders. energy management, distributed learning energy resources, renewable energy, Expertise demand response Intelligent transport systems and smart cities: traffic monitoring, control and management, network modelling, travel demand modeling, shared mobility and connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs)

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Dr Jenny Zhou Professor Jianfei Cai Dr Jiangshan Yu Dr John Betts Associate Professor Joseph Liu Professor Kimbal Marriott

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF FACULTY OF FACULTY OF FACULTY OF FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DATA SCIENCE AND AI SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND DATA SCIENCE AND AI CYBER SECURITY AND SYSTEMS (CSS) HUMAN CENTRED COMPUTING (HCC) E: [email protected] CYBERSECURITY E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Dr Jenny Zhou pursues research Professor Jianfei Cai currently serves Dr Jiangshan Yu is an Associate Dr John Betts is a senior lecturer and Associate Professor Joseph Liu’s Professor Kim Marriott leads the through a combination of laboratory as the Head for the Data Science and Director (Research) at Monash an award-winning university educator research areas include cyber security, Human Centred Computing (HCC) experiment, field monitoring, AI Department. Before that, he was a Blockchain Technology Centre. His with more than 20 years’ experience blockchain, IoT security, applied discipline group. His main interests are data analysis and modelling. Her full professor, a cluster deputy director research provides breakthroughs on teaching mathematical modelling, cryptography and privacy enhanced in information visualisation, immersive contribution to life cycle assessment of Data Science and AI Research the underlying blockchain system statistics and data science. His technology. He is currently the analytics, digital publishing as well as and sustainable built environment center (DSAIR), Head of Visual and design, and challenges the soundness research has applied computational lead of the Monash Cyber Security assistive technologies for people with has been acknowledged by many Interactive Computing Division and of the foundational security models modelling, optimisation, simulation Discipline Group. He has established vision impairment. After obtaining his international awards and invitations. Head of Computer Communications and design principles of existing and data analysis of systems under the Monash Blockchain Technology PhD in 1989 he worked at the IBM TJ Some highlights include Green Talents Division in Nanyang Technological blockchain systems, where the uncertainty to investigate important Centre in 2019 and serves as the Watson Research Center until joining awarded by The German Federal University (NTU). He has published blockchain ecosystem of over societal problems across a diverse founding director. He has received Monash in 1993. Ministry of Education and Research, more than 200 technical papers in hundreds of billion US dollars is based range of fields, usually in multi- more than 7000 citations and with research exchange fellowship international conferences and journals. upon. He has obtained several awards disciplinary teams. Research into more than 200 publications in top Expertise provided by the Lloyd’s Register He is a co-recipient of multiple paper to recognise his research outcomes renewable energy production and venues such as CRYPTO, ACM CCS. Information visualisation, immersive Foundation, and forum invitations awards, has served as an Associate and his works have achieved global storage has led to the development He has been given the Dean’s Award analytics from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation Editor, Area Chair and leading Chair coverage in hundreds of news of fast, simulation-based models to for Excellence in Research Impact and Universitas 21 network. for multiple journals and conferences. media. He has served as a program evaluate the reliability of supply from in 2018, and the prestigious ICT committee member of numerous these systems, and allocate resources Researcher of the Year 2018 Award Expertise Expertise reputed conferences and as referee and investment optimally. by the Australian Computer Society Environmental quality exposure Computer vision, 3D imaging and for more than 20 reputed journals. (ACS), the largest professional body in assessment, life cycle analysis, health analysis, vision and language, deep Expertise Australia representing the ICT sector, risk assessment, built environment, air learning, multimedia processing Expertise Computational modelling, optimisation for his contribution to the blockchain pollutant dynamics Blockchain, cybersecurity and and simulation and cyber security community. cryptography, system security and user privacy, cryptographic key Expertise management Cybersecurity, applied cryptography, blockchain

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Dr Mahsa Salehi Professor Maria Garcia Professor Mark Wallace Associate Professor Mehmet Yuce Associate Professor Dr Pari Delir Haghighi De La Banda Nemai Karmakar FACULTY OF FACULTY OF FACULTY OF ENGINEERING FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS FACULTY OF ENGINEERING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DATA SCIENCE AND AI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DATA SCIENCE AND AI ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS DATA SCIENCE AND AI DATA SCIENCE AND AI ENGINEERING E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: maria.garciadelabanda@monash. E: [email protected] edu Dr Pari Haghighi’s research interests Dr Mahsa Saleh was a postdoctoral Professor Maria Garcia has extensive Professor Wallace graduated from Associate Professor Mehmet R Yuce’s Associate Professor Nemai Chandra include mobile and ubiquitous researcher at IBM Research Australia research experience in the modelling Oxford University in Mathematics research interests include low-power Karmakar’s research interests computing, context-aware computing, before joining Monash. She received and solving of combinatorial and Philosophy. He worked for the electronics design, IoT sensor, cover areas such as RFID, smart e-health and mobile health monitoring, her PhD in Computer Science from problems, with particular emphasis UK computer company ICL for 21 implantable and wearable medical antennas for mobile and satellite Internet of Things (IoT), real-time and the Department of Computing and on the (semi-) automatic analysis years while completing a Masters devices, telemedicine, wireless body communications, electromagnetic mobile decision support systems, and Information Systems at the University and transformation of constraint degree in Artificial Intelligence at area network (WBAN), bio-sensors, bandgap structure (EBG) assisted social media content analysis. of Melbourne in collaboration with the programming models, and has the University of London and a PhD MEMs sensors and actuators, RF devices, planar phased array Machine Learning research group in been involved in different real-world sponsored by ICL at Southampton integrated circuit technology, radio antennas, broadband microstrip NICTA. problems, including the optimisation University. He was a co-founder of frequency circuit design and energy antennas and arrays, beam-forming Expertise of the layout of LNG plants, and the hybrid algorithms research area harvesting. He is an author of three networks, near-field/far-field antenna Mobile and ubiquitous computing, Expertise the optimisation of Melbourne’s and is a leader in the research areas books in the area of wearable medical measurements, microwave device situation/context modelling and reasoning, internet of things, dss for Multi-dimensional time series analysis, water flow system. In 2005 she was of Constraint Programming (CP) and devices. He is an associate Editor for modeling, monostatic and bistatic emergency management, big data online learning, learning from non- elected as a member of the Executive hybrid techniques (CPAIOR). His Institute of Electrical and Electronics radars. He has published more than stationary distributions, deep learning, Committee for the Association of focus both in industry and University Engineers (IEEE) Sensors Journal 200 referred journal and conference anomaly detection with applications in Logic Programming. Maria and Peter has been on application-driven and is a senior member. Yuce has papers, three books and 24 book cybersecurity Stuckey were the 2005 winners of research and development. He is received many awards including from chapters and he is a member of the International Constraint Modelling currently involved in the Alertness NASA, IEEE Microwave Theory and the editorial board of a number of Challenge. CRC, plant design for Woodside Techniques Society (MTTS), and the journals. planning, optimisation for Melbourne University of Newcastle. Expertise Water, and work allocation for the Expertise Program analysis and transformation, Alfred hospital. Expertise RFID, sensor tehnology constraint programming, Bioelectronics, biosensors, integrated combinatorial optimisation, problem Expertise circuits, rf electronics, wireless body modelling and solving, bioinformatics Modelling and optimisation, area network techniques and algorithms for optimisation and their integration and application to solving complex resource planning and scheduling problems

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Professor Patrick Olivier Professor Peter Stuckey Dr Pierre Le Bodic Dr Reza Razzaghi Professor Rob J Hyndman Dr Ross Gawler

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Professor Patrick Oliver is an expert Professor Peter J Stuckey is a Dr Pierre Le Bodic is primarily Dr Reza Razzaghi’s research aims Professor Rob J Hyndman, Head of Dr Ross Gawler’s professional in human-computer interaction pioneer in constrain programming, interested in Discrete Optimisation to develop smart grid solutions the Department of Econometrics and experience has spanned the with particular research interests and leads the Optimisation Group and Computational Complexity. He to efficiently deliver sustainable, Business Statistics, has researched technical and economic factors including the application of social in the Data Science and Artificial was previously a postdoc in Industrial economic and secure electricity and consulted with a wide range of in the development and operation and ubiquitous computing, the Intelligence Department. He received and Systems Engineering at Georgia supply. His research group is business, industry and government of electricity generation and development of new approaches a BSc and PhD both in Computer Institute of Technology, and obtained particularly interested in integration of clients. His most recent work transmission. He has worked to interaction, and human-centred Science from Monash in 1985 and his PhD in Computer Science from distributed energy resources (DERs) in includes demand forecasting for under both centrally planned and design methods. Patrick coined the 1988 respectively. In 2009 he was Université Paris 11. power networks, real-time monitoring the electricity industry, forecasting competitive industry structures. term Digital Civics, now a central recognised as an ACM Distinguished and situational awareness, and Australian tourist numbers, and His professional goals have mainly focus of his research. Digital Civics is Scientist. He was awarded the Expertise powerline-related bushfire mitigation estimating life expectancy for the centred on conducting realistic a cross-disciplinary area of research 2010 Google Australia Eureka Discrete optimisation, computational techniques. His extensive research Australian indigenous population. He economic and risk analysis which that explores ways technology can Prize for Innovation in Computer complexity on advanced fault location methods has received several awards for his leads to effective investments in promote new forms of participation Science for his work on lazy clause has resulted in a commercialised research including the 2007 Moran generation and transmission assets. in the design and delivery of local generation, and the 2010 University of patent. He has been the recipient of Medal from the Australian Academy services including education, public Melbourne Woodward Medal for most multiple prestigious awards including of Science. He is an elected member Expertise health and social care and town outstanding publication in Science the 2019 Best Paper Award of the of the International Statistical Institute Forecasting development planning. Another key element of and Technology across the university. IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic and a member of the International requirements in the Australian Oliver’s work is the creation of open In 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of Compatibility and the 2013 Basil Institute of Forecasters, International electricity markets, transmission source software and hardware. the Association for the Advancement Papadias Best Paper Award from the Association for Statistical Computing planning of Artificial Intelligence. IEEE PowerTech Conference. and Institute of Mathematical Expertise Statistics. Application of social and ubiquitous Expertise Expertise computing exploring ways to promote Discrete optimisation, decision Smart grids, distributed energy Expertise delivery of public services making under uncertainty, declarative resources, power system stability, Forecasting, time series analysis, programming languages, constraint powerline-related bushfire mitigation anomaly detection, statistical solving algorithms, bioinformatics, computing, machine learning constraint-based graphics

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Dr Sarah Goodwin Scott Ferraro Semini Wijekoon Professor Tim Dwyer Associate Professor Professor Wray Buntine Vincent Cheng-Siong Lee FACULTY OF NET ZERO INITIATIVE FACULTY OF FACULTY OF FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HUMAN CENTRED COMPUTING (HCC) DATA SCIENCE AND AI HUMAN CENTRED COMPUTING (HCC) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DATA SCIENCE AND AI E: [email protected] DATA SCIENCE AND AI E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

Dr Sarah Goodwin is interested in Scott Ferraro is a leader in net Semini Wijekoon’s research interests Professor Tim Dwyer is a co-author Associate Professor Vincent Lee’s Professor Wray Buntine enjoys exploring creative visual analytic zero-emission strategy development include large-scale optimisation of ‘Immersive Analytics’, which was (PhD, SMIEEE) current research playing with web/text data and solutions for complex, multi- and implementation, with a deep particularly generation and published in 2018 and has had interests are multidisciplinary spanning writing code, and supports some of dimensional and geospatial data understanding of the opportunities to transmission investment planning, over 16,500 downloads to date. He adaptive signal processing (adptive his work on Github (wbuntine). His sets. She has an academic and reduce emissions across the energy, mixed-integer programming and received his PhD on ‘Two and a Half antenna array), secure autonomous research interests include theoretical professional background in geospatial transport and buildings sectors. decomposition techniques. During her Dimensional Visualisation of Relational robotic system, renewable and applied work in document and analysis and information visualisation, Currently, as Program Director of PhD, Semini developed algorithms Networks’ from the University of decentralised electrical energy smart text analysis, machine learning, having worked for over 15 years as Monash University’s Net Zero Initiative, to improve computational efficiency Sydney in 2005. A postdoctoral grid, artificial intelligence in financial and probabilistic methods including a GIS technician, geo-data analyst, Scott and his team are focused on in generation and transmission Research Fellow at Monash University engineering, and explainable and discrete non-parametric Bayesian consultant and a researcher for some transitioning Monash’s Australian investment planning problems. Her from 2005 to 2008, Tim was also interpretable graph-based fraud statistics, latent variables in semi- of the leading research centres for operations to net zero emissions current work is on the Data 61 CRP a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft detection and anomaly pattern structured and text analysis, topic spatial analysis and visualisation by 2030. The program aims to find project with A/Prof Ariel Liebman. Research USA until 2009. From 2009 recognition. He has published 200+ models for semi-structured data, around the world, including the translatable solutions to enable Semini’s research project focuses on to 2012, Tim was a Senior Software papers in high impact Q1 journal applications in medical and health giCentre at City University in London, the broader transition to net-zero applying state-of-the-art optimisation Development Engineer with the Visual and A/A international conference infomatics. UK, the g2Lab at HafenCity University emissions required under the Paris techniques and algorithms to the Studio product group at Microsoft proceedings. Prior joining academia, in Hamburg, Germany and the Agreement. Australian NEM (National Electricity in the USA. He then returned to he has 15 years experience in Expertise Geospatial Science Department at Market). Monash as a Larkins Fellow where Singapore as a project leaders for the Artificial intelligence, Bayesian RMIT University. Expertise he now directs Monash’s Immersive design, install, test and commission non-parametrics, computational Carbon policy, emission reduction Expertise Analytics Lab. of six large scale avionic systems intelligence and neural networks, data Expertise strategies, electric vehicles, microgrids Energy system optimisation for (defence), Mechanic and Electrical analysis, data mining Novel geospatial visualisation planning and AI Expertise systems for hospitality bulidings/plants techniques, user-centred visualisation Information visualisation, visual for service/manufacturing industries design methodologies analytics, network diagrams, novel with industrial patents. representations of data, interaction design for data exploration, emerging Expertise display technologies Mixed reality big data anlytics skills, secure multiparty computation techniques for privacy preserving, computer vision skills for moving object identification and activity tracking, digital health modelling and monitoring

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Dr Xiaojun Chang Dr Xingliang Yuan

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Dr Xiaojun Chang is affiliated with Dr Xingliang Yuan focuses on Monash University Centre for Data designing new protocols, systems Science. He is an ARC Discovery to solve emerging data privacy and Early Career Researcher Award security challenges in cloud and (DECRA) Fellow between 2019-2021. networked environments. Recently, Before joining Monash, Dr Chang he works to build encrypted and was a Postdoc Research Associate searchable databases to defeat data in School of Computer Science, breaches, and design networked Carnegie Mellon University, working systems via hardware enclaves that with Prof Alex Hauptmann. He has can process large-scale data streams spent most of his time working on in a secure and scalable manner. He exploring multiple signals (visual, is also interested in cybersecurity acoustic, textual) for automatic assisted inter-disciplinary research content analysis in unconstrained with smart grid, digital health, and or surveillance videos. Dr Chang’s machine learning. His research system has achieved top performance has been supported by Australian in various international competitions, Research Council, CSIRO Data61, such as TRECVID MED, TRECVID Oceania Cyber Security Centre, SIN, and TRECVID AVS. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Expertise Monash Infrastructure. Computer vision, artificial intelligence, multimedia for social good, Expertise video analysis, medical image Data privacy, secure networked understanding systems, cloud security

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