OUR PEOPLE
Hub Director
Professor Z.Y. (Joe) Dong is a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW, and a member of the ARC College of Experts.
Theme Leader
A/Prof. Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou is leading the Material Energy Research Laboratory in nanoscale (MERLin). His research is focused on the physical-chemistry of light metals and their hydrides at the nano-scale.
Theme Leader
Scientia Professor Rose Amal is an ARC Laureate Fellow with over 25 years’ experiences in the field of fine particle technology, photo-catalysis, and functional materials.
Theme Leader
Professor Jie Bao is a Process Control expert, particularly in dissipativity/ passivity based process control. He leads the Process Control Research Group, School of Chemical Engineering.
Theme Leader
Professor Guoxiu Wang is the Director of the Centre for Clean Energy Technology and a Distinguished Professor at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia.
Chief Investigator
Dr Anna Bruce is a lecturer in the school of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering at UNSW, with research and teaching interests in energy policy, markets and regulation, renewable and distributed energy integration and energy system performance analysis and modelling.
Chief Investigator
Professor Vicki Chen is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology at UQ. With seven ARC Discovery grants as first CI since 2005 and a multitude of national and international industry linked research grants.
Chief Investigator
Prof Liming Dai is a part-time Professor in School of Chemical Engineering at University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is recognised as a pioneer and leading scientist in the research and development of carbon-based metal-free catalysts for renewable energy technologies.
Chief Investigator
Associate Professor Iain MacGill is a Senior Research Academic in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales, and Joint Director (Engineering) for the University’s Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM).
Chief Investigator
Associate Professor Patrick Howlett is a Senior Research Academic within the Institute of Frontier Materials at Deakin University. His research seeks to apply novel materials science principles, design and methodology to the development of new electromaterials.
Chief Investigator
Dr Ke Meng joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW, as a senior lecturer in energy system in 2018. He also held research positions in Intelligent Electricity Networks at the University of Newcastle, University of Sydney, China and Hong Kong SAR.
Chief Investigator
Dr. Chris Menictas is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW. He is also a member of AIRAH (Australian Institute of Refrigeration Air Conditioning and Heating) and Electrochemical Society of USA. His research interests includes Air conditioning and refrigeration, thermal morphing and wearable thermo-modulating comfort systems.
Chief Investigator
A/Prof Jason Scott is a Deputy Leader and a Senior Research Fellow in the Particle and Catalysis Research Group. He joined the PartCat group in 2002 and has gained extensive experience in particle fabrication, photocatalysis and heterogeneous catalysis.
Chief Investigator
Dr Alistair Sproul is an Associate Professor within the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at UNSW. He has worked in the area of photovoltaic and energy efficiency research and R&D since 1985 in a range of positions with various companies (BP Solar, Pacific Solar) and research institutions (UNSW, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg, Germany).
Chief Investigator
Professor Wang is the Head of the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. Previously he held the appointments as the Head of Advanced Composites Technologies at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation between 1995 and 2009, and the Director of the Sir Lawrence Wackett Aerospace Research Centre at RMIT University between 2009 and 2016.
Chief Investigator
Dr Wang is a Lecturer in the School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW. Dr Wang's research interest includes synthesis and electrochemistry of electrode materials (carbons, metal compounds and polymers) and advanced energy storage/conversion nanotechnology.