Robert Holt

• Electronic system design
• Project Manager R&D
• Renewable energy, including hydrogen as an energy vector for the future
• IoT communication technology
• LabView developer
• Building multidisciplinary teams

• MSc Physics, Victoria University Wellington 2005
• BSc ARCS (Hons) Imperial College of Science and Technology 1980

• Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology
• Chartered Engineer

Robert started his career in the UK electricity supply industry, working in specialised radio systems and then developing high value pre-press equipment to process and print coloured images.

After migrating to New Zealand in 1996, he worked for a telecommunications system developer before moving back to research, including carbon capture, hydrogen-based energy storage and recently IoT wireless technologies.

• Investigation of the friability of Ca looping sorbents during and after hydration based reactivation, Vlatko Materic, Margaret Hyland, Mark Ian Jones, Robert Holt, Fuel, Volume 127, 1 July 2014, Pages 70-77 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016236113009046
• An internally circulating fluid bed for attrition testing of Ca looping sorbents, Vlatko Materic, Robert Holt, Margaret Hyland, Mark I. Jones, Fuel, Volume 127, 1 July 2014, Pages 116-123,  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001623611301020X
• Measurement of polymer shear modulus using thickness shear acoustic waves, Robert C. Holt, Gideon J. Gouws, John. Z. Zhen, Current Applied Physics, Volume 6, Issue 3, June 2006, Pages 334-339,  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567173905002531