EcoGen 2010 is set to be the clean energy event of the year, bringing together the highest levels of the clean energy industry, locally and internationally.
Dr Andrew Dicks will be speaking between 10:30am–12:00pm in a session titled ‘Navigating Australia’s CE policy’ on Day One of EcoGen 2010, 6 September.
Dr Dicks is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Science at Queensland University of Technology, and the founding President of the Australian Association for Hydrogen Energy.
From 2006 to 2009 he was Director and Cluster Leader of the CSIRO National Hydrogen Materials Alliance, a three year collaboration between 12 university research groups investigating materials for hydrogen generation, storage and utilisation.
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Before moving to Australia in 2001 to take up a research post at the University of Queensland, Andrew spent a 30 year career in the UK gas industry being involved in R&D projects on gas production and utilization as well as economic planning and strategy development.
From 1986 he led the UK development of fuel cell systems within BG plc and collaborated with some of the leading fuel cell developers in Europe and North America. In 1991 he was awarded the H.E. Jones (London) medal of the Institution of Gas Engineers for his work on high temperature fuel cell systems. He became an advisor to the UK government on Fuel Cells and helped draft the European Strategy during the 5th Framework. Andrew Dicks is a member of the Claverton Energy Research Group, and continues to advise governments and corporate clients in energy systems. He was recently appointed a member of the international review panel for the 2010 UK EPSRC Energy Review.
Dr Dicks has written and presented extensively on hydrogen energy and fuel cell systems. His recent publications include contributions to the CSIRO “Transitions - Pathways Towards Sustainable Urban Development in Australia” and chapters in the Elsevier reference works – “Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources” and “Comprehensive Renewable Energy.”
He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Power Sources and the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.
He has given many keynote lectures, been involved in organizing several international conferences, and was the chairman of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference that was held in Brisbane in 2008.
Andrew Dicks is a Director of the Australian Institute of Energy and chairman of its Brisbane branch.
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