Peter is Deputy Dean (Performance and Infrastructure) of the Faculty of Engineering Computer and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Adelaide. As a senior member of the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Energy Technology (CET), his current research interests are in the fields of biomass utilisation, bioenergy and solar thermal energy. He works on the development of new processes and technologies in the field of solar gasification. Earlier in his career, he co-led a program in the CRC for Clean Power from Lignite, focussing on the fluidised-bed gasification of Victorian and South Australian low-rank coals for the high-efficiency generation of electricity via Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC).