Professor Alan Guwy is the Head of the Sustainable Environment Research Centre (SERC). He has carried out research in the areas of sustainable energy and environment science and engineering for more than 30 years. Currently his research interests are on the renewable hydrogen production, hydrogen energy systems and the optimization of biological and bioelectrochemical systems for the recovery of energy and high value products from industrial syngases, waste and biomass.

Professor Guwy is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and a Chartered Member of both the Institute of Water and Environment, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He sits on a number of executive boards including Sêr Cymru, and the National Research Network for Low Carbon, Energy and Environment, and is a scientific advisory committee member for MaREI, the world-leading Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine, coordinated by the Environmental Research Institute.