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David Rankin

Group Manager, Green Futures

David Rankin

BE, PhD

Dave has a Bachelor of Engineering and PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury.

He has a passion for business; in 2004 he formed Indigo Systems, a successful start-up wireless communications company that produced various types of telemetry equipment. The company was acquired by CropLogic in 2014 and Dave became the Chief Technical Officer.

Dave joined Lincoln Agritech as a Senior Research Scientist, before becoming the leader of the newly formed GreenTech team, focusing on greenhouse gas mitigation. He is now leader of the Green Futures Group, which encompasses our GreenTech, Sensors, and Digital Ag teams. These teams include a mix of research scientists and engineers, whose skills range from electrochemistry and precision agriculture to microwave and optical sensors, robotics and AI.

He specialises in:

  • system modelling
  • science innovation
  • advanced product development.

Publications

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Electrochemical Oxidation of Low-Concentration Methane on Pt/Pt and Pt/CP under Ambient Conditions, ACS Omega, October 2024
Wu T, Rankin D M, Golovko V B
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c06665
Dispersion Errors in Time Domain Reflectometry, ISEMA Conference
Woodhead, I., Platt, I., Rankin, D., Tan, A., Eccleston, K
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEMA49699.2021.9508269