Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor Doug MacFarlane FAA FTSE is an Australian Laureate Fellow at Monash University’s School of Chemistry and leader of the Energy Program in the Australian Centre for Electromaterials Science. He was the Australian Academy of Science’s Craig Medalist 2018 and also winner of the Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation 2018. His interests cover a broad range of materials for renewable energy generation and storage. He has published more than 700 papers and 30 patents, including papers in Science and Nature.