Evan Gray is a Professor of Physics at Griffith University with more than 35 years of experience in research on hydrogen storage materials and technologies for managing hydrogen gas. His basic research focuses on the interaction of hydrogen with materials. He instigated and manages the National Hydrogen Materials Reference Facility, with capabilities for studying the uptake of hydrogen by materials in very wide ranges of temperature and pressure.
Professor Gray’s applied research encompasses DC hydrogen microgrids, hydrogen storage for off-grid electricity supply, metal-hydride compressors for hydrogen vehicle filling stations, hydrogen embrittlement of high-strength alloys such as pipeline steels, and computer modelling of all aspects of renewable energy systems from the device to the enterprise level.
Professor Gray is the Hydrogen Research Lead in the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre and is heavily involved in the CRC’s activities related to hydrogen microgrids, particularly the Hydrogen Production and Research Facility in Hobart, which supplies hydrogen to the Tasmanian Government’s fuel-cell bus trial and supports research into hydrogen-based energy systems.