Dr Michael Jack

Senior Scientist, Team Leader - Green Processing, and Theme Leader - Low Carbon Technologies

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Qualifications

PhD (Quantum Optics), Auckland University, New Zealand -1999
MSc (Physics), Auckland University, New Zealand -1995.
BSc (Hons) (Physics), University of Canterbury, New Zealand -1994

Research capabilities

  • Bioenergy system analysis and design;
  • Thermodynamic analysis;
  • Non-equilibrium thermodynamics;
  • Energy system modelling;
  • Energy policy;
  • Nonlinear dynamical systems;
  • Quantum atomic and optical systems.

Career highlights

  • Team Leader, Green Processing, Scion 2010-present
  • New Zealand Executive Committee member International Energy Agency Bioenergy, 2007- present
  • NZ-China Scientist Exchange Programme Fellow 2009
  • Research Associate Rice University, Houston, 2003-2005
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan, 1999-2001

Selected papers

Large-scale forests for bioenergy: land-use, economic, and environmental implications, Michael Jack and Peter Hall, Proceedings of the World Forestry Congress, Argentina, 2009.

Scaling laws and technology development strategies for biorefineries and bioenergy plants, Michael Jack Bioresource Technology 100, 6324-6330 (2009).

Thermodynamic optimisation of a stratified thermal storage device. Michael Jack and Jan Wrobel, Applied Thermal Engineering, 29 2344 (2009).

Bioenergy Options for New Zealand: Analysis of large-scale bioenergy from forestry, Peter Hall and Michael Jack, 2009

Bioenergy Options for New Zealand: A Bioenergy Research and Development Strategy for New Zealand, Michael Jack and Peter Hall, 2009

Bioenergy Options for New Zealand: Pathway Analysis, Peter Hall and Michael Jack 2008

Spin structures of spin-1 bosonic atoms trapped in an optical  lattice with harmonic confinement, Makoto Yamashita and Michael W. Jack, Phys. Rev. A 76, 023606 (2007).