Professor Jose A. Alarco leads both fundamental and applied research into new battery materials and technologies and superconductors through the Centre for Materials Science and Centre for Clean Energy Technologies and Practices at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Jose has an undergraduate degree in Physics from National University of Engineering in Peru and a PhD in Materials Science from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. He has been involved in R&D of batteries and other nanotechnology materials for over two decades, both within academic and commercial organizations. He is a co-Investigator in the ARENA H2Export Project on Cost-Effective Renewable Hydrogen through Materials, Modelling, and Process Innovation, led by Professor Ian Mackinnon. He is also a chief investigator in the Future Battery Industry (FBI) Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) project for the establishment of a National Battery Testing Facility and the project leader in the FBI CRC project ‘Electrochemical Testing of Li-ion Battery Materials in Standard Cell Formats’.