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Dr Rory Monaghan is the Senior Lecturer of Energy Engineering in the School of Engineering at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway). He is a Funded Investigator in MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine, and the Director of the NUI Galway Energy Engineering Programme. Rory has won over 2.5 million of industrial, national and EU funding, and leads a team of 15 researchers who study hydrogen, power to gas, bioenergy, CCUS, combustion, pyrolysis and gasification of renewable fuels, supply chain optimisation and lifecycle assessment. He has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed Public - No restrictionations, 6 documents for SEAI, the EPA and the Northern Ireland Government, and is a past winner of the Tony Ryan Award for Research Innovation at NUI Galway. Rory is the Ireland National Team Co-Lead in IEA Bioenergy Task 45 on Sustainability of Bioenergy within the Bioeconomy, in which he conducts supply chain sustainability studies for biohubs and renewable gaseous fuels and hydrogen. He obtained Bachelors, Masters and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from NUI Galway in 2002, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2010, respectively.