| Advisory Board Member | Title and Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Professor Deborah Terry AO (Chair) | Vice-Chancellor and President, UQ |
| Ms Karen Dobson | Managing Director, Dow Australia and New Zealand, Dow |
| Dr Weiguang Yao | Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific R&D; Global Director, New Ventures for Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, Dow |
| Mr Noel Williams | Specialist Manufacturing Advisor, UQ Alumni Representative |
| Professor Vicki Chen | Executive Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology, UQ |
| Professor Alan Rowan | Director, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ |
| Professor Justin Cooper-White | Head of School, School of Chemical Engineering, UQ |
| Team Member | Position |
|---|---|
| Associate Professor Simon Smart | Centre Director |
| Professor Lianzhou Wang | Professor |
| Professor Stephen Wilson | Professor |
| Professor Peter Halley | Professor |
| Associate Professor Bronwyn Laycock | Associate Professor |
| Dr Muxina Konarova | Affiliate Academic |
| Dr Mahshid Firouzi | Affiliate Academic |
| Dr Jingwei Hou | Affiliate Academic |
| Ms Kirsty Fraser | Centre Manager |
| Dr Belinda Wade | Lecturer |
| Dr Jake Whitehead | Tritium Fellow in Electro-Mobility |
| Dr Jannie Grove | Research Project Manager |
| Mr Lachlan Webb | Research Assistant |
| Mr Liam Darby | Research Assistant |
| Dr Luigi Vandi | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Ms Meagan Wheeler | Program Coordinator (Transform Program, Fight Food Waste CRC) |
| Dr Miaoqiang Lyu | Advance Queensland Fellow |
| Ms Mojgan Tabatabaei Zavareh | Techno-economic Analyst |
| Dr Paul Luckman | Transform Program Manager |
| Dr Saphira Rekker | Lecturer |
| Dr Sicong Tian | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Dr Torsten Witt | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Dr Yuxiang Hu | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Student | Project Name |
|---|---|
| Mr Alister Sheil | Production of near-zero CO₂ hydrogen and fuels from natural gas through methane pyrolysis |
| Mr Benoit Clement | Development of future generation rechargeable flexible energy storage |
| Mr Mark Hodgson | A global transition to low carbon economy - limits of possibility? |
| Dr Tongen Lin | Nano-materials for electrochemical energy storage |
| Ms Romy Listo | Power to empower? Exploring the role of energy in women’s organising and empowerment in rural India |
| Mrs Sara Zeinal Zadeh | Taking Solar Power to Commercial Competitiveness in Australia: Optimum Strategy to Minimise Public Subsidy |
| Mr Gabriel Rioseco | Electricity Modelling in Computational General Equilibrium Models under high Variable Renewable Energy Scenarios |
| Student | Project Name |
|---|---|
| Mr Clement Chan | Development of bio-derived and biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanaote (PHA)-based wood plastic composites (PhD) |
| Mr Yuxiang Hu | Development of Novel Electrode Materials for Next Generation Rechargeable Batteries (PhD) |
| Ms Franziska Curran | Informing energy projects in developing countries by leveraging lessons learnt from the water sector (PhD) |
| Ms Pawarisa Luangthongkam | Biosynthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) in Methane-utilizing Mixed Cultures (PhD) |
| Mr Amir Nemati Hayati | Renewable textiles and foams reinforced with nanocellulose (PhD) |
| Mr Jingwen Zhu | The Study of 2D MXene Anode Materials for High Performance Sodium Ion Batteries (PhD) |
| Ms Gloria Bravo | Engineering models of permeation in mixed-matrix membranes (PhD) |
| Ms Piyali Chakraborty | Mechanistic insights into the texture/mouthfeel perceptions of model beverages (PhD) |
| Mr Dongxu He | Compositional Engineering for Efficient and Stable All-perovskite Tandem Solar Cells (MPhil) |
| Mr Nghia Khang Tran | Extraction, Characterisation and Properties of protein from by-product of rice milling (PhD) |
| Mr Manh Tuan Vu | Mixed matrix membranes for H₂/CO₂ separation (PhD) |
| Ms Lourdes Urban Alandete | Lipid degradation during grain storage: markers, mechanisms and shelf-life extension treatments (PhD) |
| Mr Songcan Wang | Facet and defect engineering of metal oxide photoanodes for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting (PhD) |
| Mr Johannes Grove | Energy transitions in developing countries and the role of alternative liquid fuels in reducing energy poverty (PhD) |
| Mr Matthew Herington | Positive Deviance: understanding the generative mechanisms for social change and the alleviation of energy poverty (PhD) |
| Mr Anthony Heynen | Private sector electrification in base of the pyramid marketplaces in India:opportunities for energy and business to create shared value (PhD) |
| Mr Andrew Pascale | The links between energy and human welfare (PhD) |
| Ms Beatriz Reutter Susaeta | The environmental opportunities and consequences of reducing food waste (PhD) |
| Mr Yuwan Malakar | Social constructs of energy poverty and the resulting capability deprivations in rural India (PhD) |
Vacancies for the UQ Dow Centre will be advertised through the UQ Jobs website. If interested in undertaking a graduate course or honours project with a researcher from the UQ Dow Centre, please contact the relevant researcher by email.
Enquiries
Email: dowcentre@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 3346 3883
