Members
Evan Gray has research interests focused on the physics of energy-related materials, including hydrogen storage materials and superconductors, and modelling energy systems. He has worked on materials for solid-state hydrogen storage for more than 30 years, using national and international neutron and synchrotron beam facilities to study structure-function relationships. Evan manages the National Hydrogen Materials Reference Facility at Griffith University, which provides authoritative measurements of the uptake of hydrogen from ppm levels in high-strength steels to quantities for energy storage, at temperatures from cryogenic to 1000 Celsius, and hydrogen pressures from ultra-high vacuum to thousands of atmospheres. Evan has a strong interest in the deployment of hydrogen-energy technologies in Australia. A focus on physics-based modelling of energy systems has developed around the pioneering Sir Samuel Griffith Centre, which incorporates hydrogen energy technology (electrolyser, metal-hydride hydrogen storage, fuel cell) to allow the building to operate off the electricity grid.
Junwei Lu (IEEE Senior Member and ICS Board Member) received the degree in electrical engineering from Xian Jiaotong University, China and the M.Eng. degree in electronic and computer engineering from the National Toyama University, Japan, the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National Kanazawa University, Japan, in 1991. From 1976 to 1984, he worked with the electrical power industry (now is called State Grid) in China, where he was involved in the various national research projects for electrical power industry. In 1985, his academic study and research was in the area of computational electromagnetics at the laboratory of electrical communication engineering at Toyama University, Japan. In 1988, he worked on the applied computational electromagnetics and was involved in the development of magnetics devices with the Laboratory of Electrical Energy Conversion, Kanazawa University. He joined the School of Microelectronic Engineering, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, in 1992, and moved to Gold Coast campus to establish Electrical and Electronic Engineering as a Foundation Professor since 2011. His fields of interest are computational electromagnetics, EMC computer modeling and simulation, and high-frequency magnetics for power electronics and renewable energy system. His current research interests include smart transformer and high frequency rotary transformers, WPT with magnetic flux concentrator for EV and AGV, V2G with built-in statcom and APF functions, smart hybrid AC/DC Microgrid and EMS. He has published over 300 journal and conference papers and three coauthored books in the area of harmonics balance methods, EMC and V2G, and holds over 10 international patents related smart antennas and high frequency transformers.
Md Alamgir Hossain is currently working to set up a bench-scale pure-DC microgrid at the few-kW scale using configurable electronic components to emulate any desired energy converter. The microgrid, established for research and industry-standard purposes, consists of emulators (solar, wind, electrolyzer, fuel cell, wave, EV, and programmable loads), a supervisory computer, commercial dc-dc converters, and battery banks. The microgrid is operated with 380 V dc and has a capacity of 12 kW. In this project, the challenges to building a hydrogen DC microgrid will be investigated and solved using smart (IoT) technologies and advanced algorithms. The project is funded by Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre.
He completed the PhD and Master of Engineering degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2020 and 2016, respectively. He received B.Sc. Engg. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) (with First Class (1st) Honors) from the Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology (DUET), Bangladesh, in 2012.
Neil Salam (AIE member) has interests in hydrogen energy systems, renewable energy and simulations. Neil has a background in energy and industry projects. His work has included engineering consultancy, solar PV/renewable energy design, chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, major EPC projects, industrial gases, energy efficiency, software modelling/simulations and hydrogen. He has lived abroad in multiple cultures and countries including Australia, Malaysia, Thailand and Qatar. Currently Neil is a PhD candidate at Griffith University researching DC microgrids and hydrogen.
Michael Negnevitsky is a Professor, Chair in Power Engineering and Computational Intelligence, and Director of the Centre for Renewable Energy and Power Systems at the University of Tasmania. He has been the key member of the research team that has generated a research income of over $4M. He has provided leadership in carrying out several externally funded research projects. During the last 10 years, he has conducted research as the Project Manager and Chief Investigator for several projects received from the Electricity Supply Association of Australia, Hydro Tasmania, Transend Networks, Aurora Energy, Tasmanian industry, and the Australian Research Council and US Office of Naval Research Global.
He has authored and co-authored more than 360 refereed research publications including 71 journal papers, more than 270 conference papers, 10 chapters in books, 2 books, 8 edited conference proceedings, and received 4 patents for inventions. His research interests include power system security, power quality, reliability, distributed and renewable power generation, demand response management, and smart grids. His research also involves the development and application of intelligent systems in power systems.
Professor Wang enjoys a strong record in research fields including thermodynamics, cooling engineering, desalination and utilization of renewable energy. He is a Fellow of Engineers Australia and member of the World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies. He won the DAAD visiting fellowship by DAAD Germany in 2003 and Ludwig Mond Prize 2005, by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) of United Kingdom. He won the Australian China Young Scientist Exchange Program award in 2009 and the Australian Japan Emerging Research Leader Program award in 2016 by the Australia Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). He received “Dean’s Award” for outstanding research performance in 2016. He was named as Field Leader in thermal science by the Australian Research Magazine in 2018. He is Associate Editor of IMechE Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering and Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Guest editor of Applied Sciences and editorial board member for five international journals.
In July 2012, he joined the School of Engineering, University of Tasmania. Xiaolin has extensive industrial experiences in thermodynamics of cooling and power systems, heat pump technologies, desalination, energy storage and conversion, and renewable energy applications. He is Deputy Director of the Centre for Renewable Energy and Power Systems in the School of Engineering.
