Gus is recognised globally for his research leadership in the renewable energy technologies for heavy industry. He is founding Director of University of Adelaide’s Centre for Energy Technology (CET), recipient of an ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award, Fellow of both Engineers Australia and the Combustion Institute, chartered professional engineer, and KL Southerland Medallist from Engineers Australia (IEAust). As CET Director, he leads an interdisciplinary team of over 150 researchers from Engineering, Sciences, Business and Economics to drive development of innovative clean energy technology with strong potential to lower cost of CO₂ mitigation.