Greg Metha

Prof. Greg Metha has been an academic at the University of Adelaide since 1997. He was Head of the Chemistry Department in 2010–2018 and is Deputy Director of the Centre for Energy Technology. He established and convenes the international Hydrogen Production Technology (HyPT) forum since 2019. He is also a sub-task leader for the IEA Hydrogen Technology Collaboration Programme Task 45: Renewable Hydrogen Technology, and Australian lead for the Mission Innovation Sunlight-to-X Innovation Platform. His research uses light sources from lasers to synchrotrons, across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, investigating a range of molecular phenomena to discover new molecules and explore their properties. He heads the Metal Cluster Laboratory which focuses on the physical and chemical properties of sub-nanometer metallic particles underpinned by advanced computational modelling, novel catalysts based on metal clusters, and building novel apparatus and instrumentation including pioneering work developing gas-phase photocatalysis reactors under concentrated radiation. His most recent work involves using sunlight to produce chemical fuels such as hydrogen from water-splitting, and hydrocarbons from CO2 reduction.