Day two: Session

Decarbonisation pathways: renewable energy systems

Reza Fazeli Research Fellow, Australian National University

Dynamics of the transition to renewable hydrogen Reza is a Research Fellow at Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific Grand Challenge. He joined the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science in January 2020. His main research interests are energy systems modelling, analysis of energy policies towards decarbonisation and multi-criteria decision analysis for energy planning. He received his PhD in Sustainable Energy systems from University of Porto, MIT-Portugal program. He has an MSc in Energy Systems Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.

Changlong Wang Research Fellow, Monash University

Dr Changlong Wang is a research fellow at Monash University. He is one of the key developers of the Hydrogen Economic Fairways Tool, a government-led project by Geoscience Australia in collaboration with Monash University to support Australia’s National Hydrogen Strategy. Changlong is also a Climate Future Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He is one of the two participants, who represent Australia in a new IEA, Hydrogen Implement Agreement, Task 41: “Analysis and Modelling of Hydrogen Technologies”.

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Huanyu Jin

Research Fellow, University of Adelaide

Green hydrogen from electrocatalytic seawater splitting: a sustainable route towards blue economy

Dr Huanyu Jin received PhD from The University of Adelaide (UoA) in 2020. He is currently a research fellow at UoA, and his research focuses on developing clean energy technologies for environmental sustainability. Huanyu has received multiple awards, including UoA Future Making Fellowship, Australian Synchrotron Stephen Wilkins Medal (1 per year), UoA Doctoral Research Medal, etc. As the Chief investigator and Associate Investigator, Huanyu has obtained internal and external funding of over 1 million AUD. His h-index is 27, and he has a total citation of over 6800. He was listed on Stanford University World’s Top 2% Scientists Most-Cited List.

Rui Tang

Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Sydney

Sustainable technology for greenhouse gas capture, storage, and utilisation

Rui Tang is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Sydney. His research mainly focuses on heterogeneous catalysis reactions for various solar-driven chemicals/fuel production applications.

Chris Briggs

Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney

Dr Chris Briggs has a combination of climate, energy and labour market expertise developed over 25 years’ of experience in policy, research and advocacy in Federal, State and City Governments, and university sector. Chris is a co-founder and technical director at the Business Renewables Centre – Australia. Key areas of specialisation include corporate renewable power purchase agreements, clean energy jobs and supply chains, demand flexibility and the integration of renewable energy.