Converting Hydrogen to Humans: An astrophysicist's guide to the world's energy & resources crisis

Speaker:  Dr Martin Stringer, W.H. Bryan Mining & Geology Research Centre, Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ

Abstract:  It took the Universe over 10 billion years to create the resources that we, the Earth and the Sun are made of.

Bio:  Dr Martin Stringer holds a PhD in Astrophysics from Oxford University. Martin is a theoretical physicist whose research career originally focused on cosmology and galaxy evolution, until his mounting concern for our own planet bought him back down to Earth to work on terrestrial problems. Since then, he has been applying the various mathematical modelling techniques developed over a ten-year career studying the formation of galaxies to a variety of other systems, from models of island reforestation and interacting wildlife populations, to future systems of power generation, resource supply chains, and energy markets.