Peter Osman is an electrical engineer and biophysicist with fifty-two years’ experience as an engineer, scientist, and manager. His work includes the design and implementation of large-scale or nanoscale control and data acquisition systems, analysis of the data they produce and technical reviews. His work has often been governed by stringent legal and safety requirements and usually involves managing or working in multi-disciplinary teams.

While coordinating projects for developing countries, Peter realised how seriously climate change would impact the developing world and the urgent need to cope with its impacts.

Over the last twenty years, the focus of his work has shifted from medical device and aerospace instrumentation to projects assessing building energy efficiency, carbon mitigation or the feasibility of ocean renewable energy in an Australian context.

In his spare time, Peter keenly promotes the need for energy conservation and greenhouse gas avoidance in talks and articles for schools and the public.