He leads the Hydrogen Energy research at Curtin University and is recognised internationally for his work on hydrogen storage materials. Since 1994 he has held various research positions in the UK, USA and Australia prior to being awarded a continuing position at Curtin University. He is the Australian Executive Committee member on the International Energy Agency (IEA) Hydrogen Technology Collaboration Program (TCP) and is an Australian expert on the IEA Hydrogen TCP Task 40 Hydrogen Energy Storage and Conversion. Throughout his career he has been a lead/co-investigator on over $150 M of research funding. Professor Buckley is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics and has published over 250 scientific papers in peer reviewed journal, which have attracted over 10,000 citations. His research expertise is mainly focussed on hydrogen storage and structure determination of materials.