Professor Alan Guwy has led the Sustainable Environment Research Centre (SERC) at the University of South Wales since 2004. Previously he was the Director of the Energy and Environment Research Institute at USW and led Task 34 of the IEA’s Hydrogen Implementing Agreement. 

He has led the SERC team on a number of large RCUK and EU FP consortiums and been part of funded research worth more than £50M to the university. He jointly led the creation and development of the Hydrogen Research Centre which was opened in 2008. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and a member of the Royal Society’s Hydrogen Steering Group. 

His current work is focused on the sustainable hydrogen energy systems, urban biorefining, the conversion of syngas to carboxylates, biohydrogen and optimisation of anaerobic digestion. 

He has published 120 peer reviewed papers and leads the hydrogen energy systems research in FLEXIS and is the USW lead on the FLEXISAPP and RICE projects. In collaboration with TATA and Welsh Water he is the lead on an industrial biorefinery concept “The VFA Factory for Decarbonisation” for making carboxylic acids from biowastes and syngases funded through UKRI’s IDRIC and SER Cymru’s Accelerator programmes.