About me
I am an internationally recognised academic, researcher, educator and consultant. For more than 25 years I have worked with a wide range of entities in the public and private sector including: mining & minerals processing; chemical & industrial processing; energy; infrastructure; local government and land development.
My translational, cross-disciplinary research and teaching areas include:
- Decarbonisation technologies, strategies and pathways in a range of sectors.
- Circular economy and industrial ecology (symbiosis) including the re-use and recycling of renewable energy generation and storage systems.
- Climate change impact and risk assessment and adaptation planning and implementation in many sectors.
- Energy and process efficiency.
- Just energy transition, including the role of skills development for the existing workforce.
- Lifecycle assessment of energy systems, buildings and infrastructure.
- Renewable energy rich, smart micro-grid reliability and optimisation.
- Renewable energy technologies, systems and reliable integration into large and micro-grids.
- Smart, low carbon and resilient cities.
- Sustainability management practise.
- Sustainable energy and decarbonisation skills mapping and curriculum development.
As the Associate Dean of Research and Innovation for the School of Engineering and Energy I provide research leadership for the school. I have a special focus on promoting and developing early career researchers and cross-disciplinary research.
In my role as the Program Chair Engineering and Energy Micro Credentials I lead the development and delivery of micro credentials and professional development short courses within the school. I offer a leading edge micro credential in Strategic Decarbonisation Management.
I believe that the multiplying effect of training and empowering others can achieves more than one individual can alone. To extend the well known proverb: If you give a person a fish they will feed themselves for a day. If you teach them to fish they will feed themselves for a lifetime. If you develop and teach a person more sustainable ways to fish they will feed their whole village for many generations to come.