Team

  • Professor Richard Brown

    Director

    Professor Richard Brown is an internationally-recognised leading researcher in biofuels testing. He is director of the Biofuel Engine Research Facility (BERF), where thermodynamics and fluid mechanics play a key role in generating energy in engines and boilers. Richard leads QUT’s engineering capability in biofuel testing and runs a large research...

  • Professor Zoran Ristovski

    Co-director

    Professor Zoran Ristovski is co-director of the Biofuel Engine Research Facility (BERF) and a founding senior member of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (ILAQH). Zoran has 20 years of experience in the area of environmental sciences focusing mainly on air pollution studies and has conducted a large...

  • Dr Thomas Rainey

    Waste-to-energy research leader

    Dr Tom Rainey is a chemical process engineer with 15 years of industrial and research experience in biomass processing via thermal and chemical routes. He applies his experience from the paper industry to biofuels development, leading the QUT Energy and Process Engineering discipline research program in waste-to-energy. Tom coordinates the...

  • Associate Professor Branka Miljevic

    Dr Branka Miljevic an Associate Professor and Academic Lead for HDR in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Branka completed her BSc Hon (Chemistry) in 2006 at University of Zagreb (Croatia) and holds PhD degree from Queensland University of Technology (2010) where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher until...