Professor Jerry D. Murphy Director of MaREI Centre Environmental Research Institute Civil Engineering University College Cork Telephone: +353 21 490 2286  Email: jerry.murphy@ucc.ie

Professor Jerry D. Murphy’s topic will be “Innovation in Green Gas Technologies and Systems” at the 6^th International Conference on Biomass Energy (ICBE2018).

Professor Jerry D. Murphy is:

· Leader of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Bioenergy Task on Energy from Biogas, which includes for national delegates from 15 countries.

· Director of the MaREI Centre, which is the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) centre for Marine and Renewable Energy in Ireland. Research funding in this centre is of the order of €55M and includes for 6 Universities, 200 researchers and 50 industries.

· Vice Director of the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) which is the flagship institute in Environmental Research in UCC and includes for 300 academics.

· Chair of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering in University College Cork.

Prof. Murphy has a degree in Civil Engineering (1985 - 1989), a Master’s Degree in Anaerobic Digestion (1991 - 1992) and a PhD in energy production from waste (1999 – 2003). Prof. Murphy's bioenergy and biofuels research group at present consists of 4 post-doctorates and 5 PhD students; Prof. Murphy has supervised to completion abot 30 postgraduate students and has served as an external examiner to PhD candidates in Universities in Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK and Ireland.

Prof. Murphy has served with the IEA Bioenergy for over 12 years and in this role has edited the IEA Bioenergy commissioned “The Biogas Handbook: Science, Production and Applications” and is author and/or editor of several IEA Bioenergy publications on topics such as: algal biogas; crop digestion; the potential role of biogas in smart energy grids; Role of biogas in the circular economy; Green gas.

Prof. Murphy has delivered keynote/invited lectures at numerous international conferences. He has written ca. 120 peer review journal papers; according to Google Scholar this work has been cited ca. 6480 times in peer review press (H Factor 44). Prof. Murphy serves as a referee on numerous peer review journals and has served on the Editorial Board of Bioresource Technology and of Renewable Energy.

Since 2007 he has secured ca. €8 million funding to study: second and third generation gaseous transport fuels; production of biomethane and biohydrogen from macro- and micro-algae; power to gas concepts; upgrading of biogas with hydrogen; upgrading of biogas with micro-algae; design of digesters for high solid content feed stocks; life cycle analyses of various biofuel systems.