Gary Rosengarten

Professor, Director of the Sustainable Technologies and Systems Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University, Australia

Professor Gary Rosengarten is Director of the Sustainable Technologies and Systems Enabling Impact Platform at RMIT University, and leader of the Laboratory for Innovative Fluid Thermal Systems in Mechanical Engineering. Before deciding on an academic career, he spent 3 years at Australia’s National research laboratory, CSIRO, and 2 years as an Engineering consultant in sustainable building design. He completed a double honours degree in Physics and Mechanical Engineering at Monash University and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of New South Wales. He applies his research expertise in thermofluids and energy systems, to help solve a wide variety of problems, particularly in energy storage, solar energy, thermal control, energy efficiency, and biosystems, working closely with interdisciplinary teams from academia and industry. He has developed solar absorbers using radiative selective surfaces and is one of the pioneers of solar spectral splitting using volumetric absorbers. His current research project focus includes collaborating with industry to develop distributed thermal batteries coupled to heat pumps for domestic thermal loads, large scale thermal storage for industrial heat, and droplet/surface interactions for high heat flux applications. He has attracted over 20 million dollars of research funding, published over 200 refereed journal articles, and has 6 patents.