Dr Matthew Stocks is a Research Fellow in the Research School of Engineering. He has more than 25 years’ research and development experience in renewable energy technologies, including 10 years commercialising solar cell technologies.

His current research efforts focus on integrating high amounts of renewable energy in Australia’s electricity network, including the importance of the electric vehicles in this transition. He was part of the RE100 team which won the 2018 Eureka Prize for Environmental Science.

His other areas of research interest are renewable energy policy, pumped hydro energy storage and tandem solar cell energy yields.

Previously Matthew was Chief Technologist at Origin Energy Solar and then Transform Solar. His PhD studies formed the basis for deep understanding of silicon photovoltaic technology.