Professor Doug MacFarlane is a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor and was recently an Australian Laureate Fellow at Monash University’s School of Chemistry. His interests cover a broad range of materials chemistry and electrochemistry for renewable energy generation and storage. He has published more than 800 papers and 30 patents and these have been cited more than 70,000 times (h-index 126). He is one of the Clarivate Highly Cited authors 2020 and 2021. He was the Australian Academy of Science’s Craig Medalist 2018 and winner of the Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation 2018. Professor MacFarlane was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2007 and the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2009. He recently founded a spin out company Jupiter Ionics to scale up the ammonia production technology his group has developed. Doug is a member of Editorial Advisory Boards of Chem Commun, Green Chem, ChemSusChem, and Sustainable Energy and Fuels.