Prof. Douglas Macfarlane

Monash University, Australia

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 of ionic liquids and 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.