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New paper! Lifecycle assessment of plastics

Congratulations to Adho Kim and Raski for getting this paper “Comparative life cycle assessment study of virgin polyethylene and bio-polyethylene, with recycled polyethylene from uncontaminated post-industrial film” in Green Chemistry.  https://doi.org/10.1039/D5GC02751A This article can...

Recent conference presentations

On the 12th to 14th of November, EcoDesign 2025 was held in Tokyo. 2 members of the lab presented at the conference. Takako presenting her ongoing work on Energy Poverty, while Zun presented collaborative...

Visit from “Dr Coffee”

Yesterday we had a visit from “Dr Coffee” Andik Irawan, our lab alumnus. He came to discuss some ongoing and potential collaborations with his colleague Prof. Kusmiyati.  They both presented at the recent Sustain...

New Paper: Risk dynamics in the PV industry

Congratulations to our collaborator and recent visiting PhD student Yujia, whose work was just published in Energy Policy, “Risk dynamics and strategies of China’s solar PV industry chain under trade frictions: A review”. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114942...

Japan, Australia, India Trilateral Collaboration

Trilateral Pathways to Resource Security: Japan-Australia-India Collaboration on Critical Minerals 25th – 26th of November (in-person in Kyoto, or online via Zoom) As part of the Japan-Australia-India collaboration week, we will hold two events...

Welcomes and Farewells

The Autumn semester starts on October 1, and we welcome two new students and a visitor to the lab: Alfred has arrived from Malaysia to do the second leg of his Double Degree between...

Farewell Siti

Dr Siti Marsili Mhd Ruslan, Senior Lecturer at University of Malaysia Terengganu has been in our group on a research fellowship, but is about to leave us. I believe it has been a productive...

New paper on Social Sustainability in Energy Policy!

Congratulations to Allen for his recent publication “Investigating social sustainability in Philippine electrification policies through qualitative content analysis” in Energy and Sustainable Development https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2025.101817  Free Open Access by this link until October 23, 2025 ...

Farewell Party

We`re sad to be saying goodbye to a few members of the lab – Raski has been with us for 3.5 years through his PhD and a short position as a researcher, and will...