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Peter Ralph
University of Technology Sydney
Professor Peter Ralph is the Executive Director of the Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster (C3) at the University of Technology Sydney, co-director of the CSIRO Marine and Coastal Carbon Biogeochemistry Cluster (Coastal Carbon Cluster) and member of the IOC-UNESCO Blue Carbon scientific working group. He is head of the Aquatic Processes Group in C3 and directs the Algal Biofuel research program.
Prof. Ralph has over 16 years experience in aquatic photosynthesis research and has made significant advances in the understanding of photosynthetic processes in seagrass, coral, plankton and algae growing at their environmental extremes. He was the first to establish methods to assess in situ physiological stress in seagrass using fluorometry. He has close collaborations with leading researchers in 13 countries and is a member of editorial boards of the premier marine science journals Marine Biology and Marine Ecology Progress Series.
The Algal Biofuel research program at UTS is paving the way for new energy fuel alternatives for the 21st century. Over the past 4 years, Prof. Ralph has led a multidisciplinary team to develop technologies to optimise the photosynthetic conditions of several strains of microalgae for biofuel production. Working together with biologists, engineers and physicists, his team has optimised a commercial photobioreactor to precisely simulate environmental conditions for optimum algal growth and productivity. He and his team are now able to use models of photosynthetic architecture and radiative transfer models of irradiance to predict energy partitioning when microalgae are exposed to sub-optimal conditions.
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03 Aug 2014