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Dr Jacob Martin
Jacob (Jake) is a materials scientist and nanotechnologist working on green technologies. Jacob has run the gamut of renewables, including biomass-to-power, algae biofuels, solar photovoltaics, carbon capture, soot pollution reduction, hydrogen storage, water filtration and batteries.
Jacob is a trained chemist, physicist and chemical engineer and completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2020. In 2020 he became a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Carbon Reduction in Chemical Technology in Singapore, working with the government and businesses to decarbonise chemical industries. In 2021 he took up a Forrest Fellowship in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Curtin University in Perth, working on advanced carbon materials for better batteries and hydrogen storage.
Jacob has a passion for communicating science and has presented at the 2019 Pint of Science festival, CREATE Climate Change Conference in Singapore, nanoart exhibitions and national news. He was selected for the ABC TOP5 Science Media Residency in 2022.