Rate My Professor David Goodfield

David Goodfield is an Adjunct Associate Lecturer at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, where he has been actively involved in research and teaching related to sustainable energy technologies and environmental engineering. He holds a BSc with First Class Honours and a PhD. His honours thesis, completed at Murdoch University in 2008, focused on improving the energy efficiency of manufactured lightweight housing through the integration of phase-change materials with passive solar design. As a PhD candidate around 2014, Goodfield examined carbon emissions from mine site villages in Western Australia's Mid West, advocating for green strategies to reduce environmental impact. His career at Murdoch includes contributions to significant projects such as the university's innovative solar greenhouse, where he co-authored a two-year study demonstrating that transparent solar photovoltaic glazing panels offset nearly 40 per cent of the building's energy consumption while maintaining consistent energy generation and high light transmission for plant growth.

Goodfield's research specializations encompass renewable energy systems, agrivoltaics, sustainable buildings, carbon neutral settlements, and biomass co-firing in coal power plants. Key publications include 'High-transparency clear window-based agrivoltaics' (2023), which details performance characteristics of a research greenhouse installation at Murdoch University; 'Field Performance Monitoring of Energy-Generating High-Transparency Solar Windows in a Greenhouse' (2023); 'Biomass Co-firing in Coal Power Plants: Analyzing Combustion Characteristics and Emission Reductions' (2024); and 'Carbon neutral mine site accommodation village: Developing the model'. He has also contributed to works on carbon neutral villages and solar energy's role in settlements. In addition to his research, Goodfield serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sustainable Buildings since 2022 and has organized international conferences such as the World Renewable Energy Congress 2017 hosted at Murdoch University, as well as co-managing water and wastewater management conferences. His work has influenced advancements in solar energy utilization and emission reductions in energy-intensive sectors.