Dr Bruce Godfrey FTSE and Professor Amanda Ellis join us to explore the potential of battery technologies, emerging storage solutions, and their impact on renewable energy – the major factors in Australia’s transition to a decarbonised economy.
Join us to explore some of the latest research developments, their application and impacts on industry efficiency and economic benefits.
The event will commence with short presentations from both speakers, followed by a discussion of the most pressing issues.
Speakers
Dr Bruce Godfrey FTSE
Non-Executive Director, Future Battery Industries CRC Limited, Director for Wyld Group Pty Ltd, a member the Charles Sturt University Council and a Member of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s Advisory Panel
Bruce is an experienced, commercial executive with a proven ability in dealing with the issues and risks associated with commercialising new technology. Bruce is a Non-Executive Director of the Future Battery Industries CRC Limited, a Director for Wyld Group Pty Ltd, a member the Charles Sturt University Council and serves as a Member of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s Advisory Panel.
Bruce is a Fellow of the Academy of Technology & Engineering and was a Director and Vice-President Diversity (2016-21). He has chaired Expert Working Groups for the Australian Council of Learned Academies on Delivering Sustainable Urban Mobility (2015) and on Energy Storage (2017).
Professor Amanda Ellis
Head of the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Melbourne
Amanda is Head of the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. She is an expert on surface science and fundamentals of electrical and molecular interactions for application in DNA/RNA nanotechnology (DNA-polymer hybrids, non-enzymatic synthesis and reconfigurable electronic systems), energy storage (battery anodes) and energy harvesting (wearable devices). She is currently working on research projects such as Electrochemical Testing of Li-Ion Battery Materials in Standard Cell Formats, the Super anode, and with the National Battery Testing Centre. Amanda is a Board member and President Elect (2022-2024) of the Royal Australia Chemical Institute (RACI).
Discussion Panel Chair
Professor Doug MacFarlane FTSE FAA
Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor, Monash University
Professor Doug MacFarlane is a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor at Monash University. He was a BSc(Hons) graduate from Victoria University of Wellington and then undertook his PhD at Purdue University before taking up a position at Monash. His interests include electrochemistry applications in renewable energy, including generation of hydrogen and ammonia. He has published more than 800 papers, cited > 80,000 times (h-index 134). He has been a Clarivate “highly cited author” since 2019. He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2007 and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2009. His group has recently spun-out a company, Jupiter Ionics P/L, to scale up their ammonia production technology and was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2023 Horizon Prize.