Associate Professor Yansong Shen

• Career total of over 100 peer-reviewed papers published in book chapters, journals, and conference proceedings (h-index 25, as of 2019). ResearcherID: A-9037-2010; Scopus Author ID: 25028505200
• >AUD 7 million research grants, including
  • ARC research grants (9 ARC grants to date; 6 ARC grants active at present), including FT190100361 (sole CI, 2019-2023, A$878k), DP180101232 (lead CI, 2018-2022, A$342k), LP150100112 (lead CI, 2015-2019, A$1.1M), LP160101100 (lead CI, 2016-2020, A$0.7M), IC200100023 (CI, $5M), LP120200469, IH140100035, LP150100911, DP160103433, and
  • several grants from other sources as lead CI/co-CI, for example, sole CI in ACARP e.g. C26041, Lead CI and CI in ARENA projects e.g. RND2020/015 (PV recycling), RND2017/011 (Tandem solar cell), RND2018/014 (PVE for H2 generation, 2019-2022), RND2018/015  (Biomass for H2 generation, 2019-2022) and BAJC e.g. BA14026 and BA19007 etc.  
• Long-term industry engagements established with leading Australian/overseas industries, including Baosteel, Rio Tinto, BlueScope Steel, Coal Energy Australia, ACARP, BHP, Peabody Energy, Jellinbah Resources, CCTEG etc, as evidenced by joint ARC grants and industry projects, and employment potential of PhD graduates.
• Several research-related competitive awards and ARC fellowship, for example, ARC Future Fellowship; ARC APDI Fellowship and ATSE Emerging Future Leaders in Low Emission Coal Technology Fellowship. 
• Leadership/Member of several professional associations/societies, for example,
  • President, Australian Particle Technology Society;
  • Chartered IChemE Fellow and TMS, AIST, AIE members. 
• Active in synergistic activities, for example, 
  • Manager of Australia-China Joint Centre on Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials; 
  • Guest editor of a special issue of Steel Research International; 
  • Organiser/contacts of several international conferences/symposiums/meetings.  

Referee for scholarly journals:

• Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B (Board of Review; Key Reader)
• Advanced Powder Technology (Editor)
• Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
• Chemical Engineering Science
• Chemical Engineering Journal
• Powder Technology
• AIChE Journal
• Applied Energy
• Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
• Minerals Engineering
• Fuel
• ISIJ International
• etc.

Scholarship/RA/TA opportunities

• UNSW Scientia PhD scholarship, Tuition fee+50k pa, Please contact A/Prof. Shen for details.  Update: We received two Scientia PhD Scholarships in 2017 (Ms S Song and Mr ZZ Xie). Apply here. (update: suspended in 2021)
• UNSW Scholarship to international/domestic students, Tuition fee+26k pa. Click here. For the key date, click here. 
• Project Scholarship available in A/Prof. Shen's Lab, Tuition fee+26k pa. Please contact A/Prof. Shen for details. 
• China Scholarship Council (CSC) Joint Scholarship program (中国国家公派出国留学奖学金). For more details, click here. To apply CSC, click here. Extra top-up scholarships will be provided to CSC awardees. It may increase yearly with performance. 
• UNSW English requirements can be found at UNSW website (click here)

• Research Assistant positions are available. Please contact A/Prof. Shen for details. 
• Teaching Assistant positions are available.  
• Postdoc fellow positions are available. 

Potential employment opportunities

Iron ore and coal are the two largest exports in Australia. sProMO group has a high reputation for collaboration with industries in iron ore and coal sectors including Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, ACARP, Coal Energy Australia, Baosteel.  PhD graduates will readily be exposed to these industries for potential employment. The same applies to our research in the fields of photovoltaics, water, biomass, etc.