Professor Alan Guwy
Professor Alan Guwy heads up the Sustainable Environment Research Centre (SERC), at the University of Glamorgan. He also leads the research activities of The Hydrogen Research Centre based at the Baglan Energy Park. After completing his PhD in the field of anaerobic processes he continued as a postdoctoral fellow for a further six years on FP 4 and BBSRC programmes. In 1999 he was appointed as a senior lecturer in the School of Applied Science at the University of Glamorgan, gaining his readership in 2001 and his professorship in 2006. He is a Chartered Chemist with 20 years experience in optimisation of biological and chemical treatment processes with particular expertise in anaerobic process technology. He is the Western European representative of the IWA Specialist Group in Anaerobic Digestion and the UK representative on the IWA Anaerobic Task Group for Harmonization of Anaerobic Biodegradation, Activity and Inhibition. He also represents the UK on the International Energy Association’s (IEA) Biohydrogen Task Group Annex 21. He led the UK team in the British Council’s INDO-UK dialogue on Low Carbon Technologies and leads the Wales-India “Low Carbon Technologies programme” funded by the Welsh Assembly Government. Nationally he sits on the management boards of the Wales Waste Resource Research Centre and the Low Carbon Research Institute (LCRI), the Wales Energy Research Centre and has been a member of the Engineering Physical Sciences Research Council Peer Review College since 2002. He leads the “Hydrogen and Fuel Cell” themes of the recently formed LCRI and co-directed the EU funded Waste Treatment Technology Network (WTTN) and the European Social Funded Waste Treatment Technology training consortium for Wales and is a co-director of the AD Centre of Excellence funded by the Welsh Assembly Government. Currently his research is focussed on renewable generation of hydrogen, the optimisation of anaerobic fermentation to produce bioenergy in the form of hydrogen and methane gas and bioelectricity using microbial fuel cells and bio-electrocatalytic systems. He has played a key role in R&D projects totalling over £9 million including projects including those funded by EPSRC SUPERGEN’s, BBSRC, EU Marie Curie fellowships, EU FP4 and FP6, Carbon Trust and EU-ERDF.
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