Professor Zhenguo Huang, Director, ARC Future Fellow
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (FEIT)
Research interests: hydrogen energy system, hydrogen production, hydrogen storage, electrolyte materials, boron nanomaterials.
Zhenguo Huang, a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at UTS, is Director of Centre for Green Technology, which aims to develop novel technology for future clean fuels, emission measurement, and environmental decontamination.
Professor Zhenguo Huang leads the Hydrogen Energy Program at UTS.
Prof Eric Kennedy, Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (FEIT)
In the context of process safety, environment protection and energy-related projects, the research activities of Professor Kennedy have made significant fundamental and practical contribution
Prof Michael Stockenhuber, Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (FEIT)
Michael Stockenhuber did his Ph.D. at the Institute of Physical Chemistry TU Vienna which he was awarded with distinction in 1994 (Dr.Techn.) He joined Nottingham Trent University in 1995 as postdoctoral researcher and was later appointed lecturer and promoted to Reader in 2007.
Dr Nic Surawski, Associate Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (FEIT)
Research interests: vehicle emissions, air quality, alternative fuels, environmental monitoring and modelling.
Nic Surawski is an Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering with expertise in alternative transportation fuels and their emissions.
Dr Ali Altaee, Senior Lecturer
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (FEIT)
Research interests: desalination, membrane technologies, water and wastewater treatment, soil remediation, renewable energy, optimization and machine learning.
Dr Ali Altaee is working at the forefront of renewable energy, water engineering, and soil remediation, developing innovative technologies in alternative water sources.
Dr Peter Irga, ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (FEIT)
Research interests: air quality, atmospheric environment, biofiltration and sustainability.
Dr Peter Irga is a Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow who is a leader in the growing field of innovative nature-based biological air treatment technologies to counter the growing challenges of high levels of air pollution in our cities.
Dr Yuhan Huang, ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (FEIT)
Research interests: air quality, vehicle emissions, pollutant dispersion, renewable fuels, advanced combustion concepts, computational fluid dynamics
Yuhan’s research interests include renewable energies, carbon capture and utilisation, green infrastructure, air pollution, urban planning, urban heat island, and computational fluid dynamics.
Dr Limei Yang, Lecturer
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (FEIT)
Research interests: energy conversion and storage, batteries, hydrogen, solar energy, thermal energy
Dr Limei Yang currently focuses on materials for energy conversion and storage, in the fields of batteries, hydrogen, solar energy, and thermal energy. In particular, she has strong expertise in metal-based hydrogen storage materials. She has worked on various types of materials including metals, alloys, oxides, nitrides, and carbides, which exist in different forms such as nanoparticles, nanowires, thin films, and bulk.
Dr Minghong Huang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (FEIT)
Research interests: electrochemical catalysis, MOF-derived electrocatalysts, hydrogen generation, electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction, small organic molecules oxidation
Dr Scott Dwyer, Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF)
Research interests: Transport electrification, business models, policy and regulations, social research, market analysis.
Dr Scott Dwyer is an Associate Professor and Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney. He is an industry-focussed leader in sustainability research and engagement with 20 years of experience across multiple jurisdictions.
Dr Nick Florin, Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF)
Associate Professor Nick Florin is a Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF), University of Technology Sydney. He is also a Director of the Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence.
Nick leads and undertakes collaborative research projects with industry and government partners advancing resource and product stewardship, circular economy transitions and supply chain sustainability.
Prof Jahangir Hossain, Professor and ARC Future Fellow
School of Electrical and Data Engineering (FEIT)
Research Interest: Renewable energy Integrations, Microgrids, Hybrid Energy Storage systems including battery and hydrogen, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency and Optimisation.
Dr Jahangir Hossain received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. Eng. degrees from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET), Bangladesh, in 2001 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of New South Wales in 2010, Australia, all in electrical and electronic engineering. He also completed Graduate Certificate in Higher Education degree from Griffith University in 2014.
He is currently an Professor with the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Prof Roc Shi, Research Principal
Australia-China Relations Institute
Research interests: energy transition, critical minerals, climate change, energy security, regional cooperation, and energy governance, from economics and policy perspectives.
Xunpeng (Roc) Shi is a Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and Sustainability and a Research Principal at the Australia-China Relations Institute, UTS. He is also the President of the International Society for Energy Transition Studies (ISETS) and a Council Member (President, 2016-2018) of the Chinese Economics Society Australia (CESA).