Biography: Professor Gary Rosengarten is the 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, energy conversion, high flux cooling for electronics and biomedical systems, working closely with interdisciplinary teams from academia and industry. His current research projects include collaborating with industry to develop distributed thermal batteries coupled to heat pumps for domestic thermal loads, large-scale thermal storage for industrial heat, and understanding droplet/surface interactions for spray cooling and evaporation. He has attracted over 20 million dollars of research funding and published over 200 refereed journal articles and has 4 patents.