Our People

Institute Team

Professor Joe Dong
Director
Sharon Swift
Institute Manager
Ziyuan Tong
Project Officer

Consultants

Trevor Ashton
Consultant
Christine Yip
Principal Consultant
Dr Aaron An
Consultant
Terry Lampard
Consultant

Advisory Board

Tim George
Managing Director, DIgSILENT
Ivan Lee
CEO, Iridium Capital Limited
Jeff Dimery
Board Chair & CEO, Alinta Energy
Lynn Morrison
Partner – Assurance, EY
Alice Lang
Head of Future Business Strategy, AGL
Glenn Platt
Research Director – Energy, CSIRO
Professor Nicholas Fisk
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), UNSW Sydney

Founding Investigators

Dr Jiangtao Jason Xu
School of Chemical Engineering
Professor Alison Lennon
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE)
Associate Professor Da-Wei Wang
School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Derrick Ng Kwan
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
Dr Ke Meng
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
A/Professor Ned Ekins-Daukes
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE)
Professor Rose Amal
UNSW Scientia Professor, School of Chemical Engineering
Professor S. Travis Waller
Advisian Chair of Transport Innovation, Executive Director of Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)
Dr Guo Chen
Scientia Fellow
Professor Martin Green
Scientia Professor & Director, Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
Professor Liming Dai
Director, UNSW-BUCT-CWRU International Joint Laboratory
Professor Jie Bao
School of Chemical Engineering
A/Prof Neeraj Sharma
School of Chemistry
Dr Paul Munro
Scientia Research Fellow, School of Humanities & Languages
Professor Lyria Bennett Moses
Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation
Professor Jacob Goeree
Scientia Professor, UNSW Business School

Investigators

A/Professor Peyman Mostaghimi
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering
A/Professor Ben Harris-Roxas
Director, South Eastern Sydney Research Collaboration Hub (SEaRCH)
Dr Binghao Li
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering
Dr Abnil Prasad
Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)
Professor Tommy Wiedmann
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Soo Huey Teh
School Of Civil And Environmental Engineering
Dr David Rey
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor Iain Macgill
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
A/Professor Taha Rashidi
Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)
Professor Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou
School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Zhaojun Han
Senior Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Ivan Perez-Wurfl
Lecturer, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE)
Dr Wei Liu
School of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr Dipan Kundu
School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Jeffrey Cheung
Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF)
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Dr Weicong Kong
Dr Jessica Yajie Jiang
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE)
Merlinde Key
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE)
Dr Xiang Zhang
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Dr Jiajia (James) Yang
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
A/Professor Xiaojing Hao
Scientia Fellow, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE)
Professor Gavin John Conibeer
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE)
A/Professor Ryan T. Armstrong
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering
Dr Anna Bruce
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE)
Dr Xuan Liu
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
Associate Professor Guozhen Liu
School of Biomedical Engineering
Professor John Fletcher
Head of Power and Energy Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
Dr Rahman Daiyan
School of Chemical Engineering,
Professor Eliathamby Ambikairajah (Ambi)
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
Professor Cyrille Boyer
Co-director of Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Xunyu (Rain) Lu
Scientia Fellow, School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Branislav Hredzak
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
Dr Jian Jeffery Pan
School of Chemical Engineering
A/Professor Amelia Thorpe
Faculty of Law
Professor Timothy Schmidt
ARC Future Fellow, School of Chemistry
Professor Margaret Morris
Head of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences
A/Professor Xiaoqi Feng
NHMRC Career Development Fellow in the UNSW School of Public Health and Community Medicine
A/Prof Lan Ding
Faculty of Built Environment
Dr Declan Liam Kuch
Faculty of Social Sciences
Dr Edgar Yue Lap Liu
Faculty of Built Environment
Professor Jeremy Moss
Faculty of Social Sciences
Dr Judy Hart
School of Materials Science & Engineering
Nofar Sheffi
Faculty of Law
Professor Matthew Kearnes
School of Humanities and Languages
Philip Oldfield
Faculty of Built Environment
A/Professor Yan Xu
Scientia Fellow, School of Taxation ＆ Business Law
Dr Ahmed WA Hammad
Faculty of Built Environment
Professor Veena Sahajwalla
Scientia Professor, Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology,(SMaRT)
Man Yu
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor Donna Green
Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)
Professor Sisi Zlatanova
Faculty of Built Environment
Professor Ken Butcher
Prince of Wales Clinical School
Dr Sarah Walker
School of Economics
Dr Claudio Cazorla Silva
School of Materials Science and Engineering
Dr Huiqiao (Fanfan) Tian
Prince of Wales Clinical School
Associate Professor Dewei Chu
School of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor Steven Sherwood
ARC Laureate Fellow, Deputy Director Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)
Dr Guoyin Li
ARC Future Fellow, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Professor Lisa Alexander
Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)
Professor Ben Newell
Deputy Head of the School of Psychology
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Dr Brian Lee
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
A/Professor Sammy Chan
School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Maria Balatbat
Centre For Energy And Environmental Markets (CEEM)
Professor John Kaldor
Scientia Professor, The Kirby Institute
Professor Richard Tilley
Director of Electron Microscope Unit
Professor Ilpo Koskinen
Director, Design Next
A/Professor Melissa Hart
Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)
Mathew Lipson
Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)
A/Prof Danyang Wang
School of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor David Hill
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
Dr Ghazaleh Bahman Rokh
School of Materials Science and Engineering
Dr Johnson Xuesong Shen
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr Pramod Koshy
School of Materials Science and Engineering
Dr Sophie Adams
Faculty of Social Sciences
Dr Laura Tuohilampi
Faculty of Social Sciences
Scientia Professor Deo Prasad
Faculty of Built Environment
Dr Kayleen Manwaring
UNSW Business School
Professor Renate Egan
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE)
Nathan Cooper
Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)
Dr Alamgir Hossain
Capability Systems Centre
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Dr Jiaojiao Jiang
School of Computer Science Engineering
Hung Yi Yu
Research Associate, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
Professor Chuan Zhao
School of Chemistry
Dr Nicholas Bedford
School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Yang Li
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE)