Plenary Speakers
Prof. Liming Dai
University of New South Wales, Australia
Professor Liming Dai is a University of New South Wales (UNSW) Scientia Professor, an ARC Laureate Fellow and an Australian Academy of Science Fellow. He is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation. He is also Funding Director of the Centre for Advanced Carbon Materials at UNSW. Professor Dai’s expertise covers the synthesis, functionalization, and device fabrication of conjugated polymers and carbon nanomaterials for energy-related and biomedical applications.
Prof. Lei Jiang
Chinese Academy of Sciences (TIPC), University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Professor Lei Jiang is a Professor at Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (TIPC) and University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, National Academy of Engineering (USA), Australian Academy of Science and Academia Europaea. His scientific interests focus on bio-inspired, smart, multi-scale interfacial materials with superwettability.
Prof. Yuri S. Kivshar
Australian National University, Australia
Professor Yuri S. Kivshar received PhD degree in 1984 in Kharkov (Ukraine). He left the Soviet Union in 1989 and after several visiting positions in Europe, he settled in Australia in 1993. His research interests include nonlinear physics, metamaterials, and nanophotonics. He is Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science since 2002, and also Fellow of Optica, APS, SPIE, and IOP. He received many awards, more recently 2022 Max Born Award (Optica).
Prof. Sandra E.Kentish
University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor Sandra E. Kentish is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at The University of Melbourne. She is a Project Leader within the ARC Hub for Digital Bioprocess Development, the Dairy Innovation Research Hub and within the Future Fuels CRC. She was Head of the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (2017-2022), Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering (2012-17). Professor Kentish has broad interests in industrial separations, particularly the use of membrane technology for energy, food and water applications.
Prof. Lianzhou Wang
The University of Queensland, Australia
Professor Lianzhou Wang is Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Laureate Fellow in School of Chemical Engineering, Director of Nanomaterials Centre (Nanomac), and Senior Group Leader of Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland. Professor Wang's research focuses on the synthesis, characterisation and application of semiconductor nanomaterials for use in renewable energy conversion/storage systems.
Prof. Stefan Maier
Monash University, Australia
Professor Stefan Maier is Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University in Melbourne, the Lee-Lucas Chair in Experimental Physics at Imperial College London, fellow of Optica and the Institute of Physics, ISI Highly Cited Researcher since 2017, initial editorial team of ACS Photonics, and Editor-in-Chief of Nanophotonics. He graduated from Caltech in Applied Physics and works mainly in nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metasurfaces from the visible to the mid-infrared.
Prof. Hala Zreiqat AM
The University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Hala Zreiqat AM is Director of the ARC Training Centre for Innovative BioEngineering (2017-2022). She is a 2021-2022 Fulbright Senior Scholar; a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University (2016-2017); a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences; Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences; Australian Academy of Technology & Engineering; the International Orthopaedic Research Society; and the Royal Society of New South Wales. She is a trailblazer in the field of biomaterials and tissue engineering.
A/Prof. Xiaoguang Duan
University of Adelaide, Australia
Prof. Phoebe Chen
La Trobe University, Australia
Prof. Kishan Dholakia
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Haoran Ren
Monash University, Australia
Prof. David Moss
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Dr. Alex Y. Song
University of Sydney, Australia
Prof. Yuling Wang
Macquarie University, Australia
Prof. Haoyu Li
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Prof. Qican Zhang
Sichuan University, China
Dr. Zhenzhen Wu
Griffith University, Australia
Prof. Jason Dutton
La Trobe University, Australia
Prof. Cheng Yan
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Prof. Jan Seidel
University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Jue Hou
RMIT University, Australia
A/Prof. Huacheng Zhang
RMIT University, Australia
Dr. Liang Wang
RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Guoxiu Wang
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Dr. Lei Bao
RMIT University, Australia
Dr. Jianfeng Mao
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Munkhbayar Batmunkh
Griffith University, Australia
Dr. Qianqian Shi
University of Newcastle, Australia
Prof. Nir Eynon
Monash University, Australia
Dr. Shilin Zhang
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Shuaifei Zhao
Deakin University, Australia
Prof. Zhe Liu
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Prof. Dong Ruan
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Prof. Sumeet Walia
RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Bingjie Ni
University of New South Wales, Australia
Prof. Yalin Lu
University of Science and Technology of China, China
Prof. Feng Chen
Shandong University, China
Dr. Guochen Bao
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Prof. Michelle Spencer
RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Cyrille Boyer
University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Zong Li Xie
Monash University, Australia
Prof. Haolan Xu
University of South Australia, Australia
Prof. Zongyou Yin
Australian National University, Australia
Dr. Yunxia Yang
CSIRO, Australia
Prof. Tierui Zhang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Shaobin Wang
University of Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Murphy Tony
CSIRO, Australia
Prof. Andrey Sukhorukov
Australian National University, Australia
Prof. Weisong Zhao
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Dr. Ziyun Wang
University of Auckland, New Zealand
A/Prof. Porun Liu
Griffith University, Australia
A/Prof. Bolong Huang
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
A/Prof. Jingwei Hou
University of Queensland, Australia
Dr. Shirley Shen
Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia
Prof. Jun Ma
University of South Australia, Australia
Dr. Kaiwen Sun
University of New South Wales, Australia
Prof. Dawei Wang
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China
A/Prof. Jingliang Li
Deakin University, Australia
Prof. Ann Roberts
University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Xiaochun Gao
Ludong University, China
Dr. Kebin Shi
Peking University, China
Prof. Qilin Wang
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Dr. Bo Liu
Nature Publishing Group
Prof. Qunfeng Cheng
University of Science and Technology of China, China
A/Prof. Zi Gu
University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Hongjun Chen
University of Sydney, Australia
A/Prof. Jingun Ran
University of Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Ali Zavabeti
University of Melbourne, Australia
Prof. Dewei Chu
University of New South Wales, Australia
Prof. Zhuge Yan
University of South Australia, Australia
A/Prof. Lei Wei
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Ying Tan
University of Melbourne, Australia
Prof. Leslie Yeo
RMIT University, Australia
Dr. Jean-Philippe Tetienne
RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Hongqi Sun
The University of Western Australia, Australia
Prof. Alan Lau
Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
A/Prof. Wenxin Wang
Harbin Engineering University, China
Prof. Xiaotao Hao
Shandong University, China
A/Prof Ekaterina Pas
Monash University, Australia
Prof. Weiwei Lei
RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Dan Liu
RMIT University, Australia
A/Prof. Xiaorui Zheng
West Lake University, China
Prof. Colin Barrow
Deakin University, Australia
Prof. Yuerui Lu
Australian National University, Australia
Prof. Zhongfan Jia
Flinders University, Australia
Dr. Sajjad Seifi Mofarah
University of New South Wales, Australia
Prof. Xiaji Liu
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Dr. Zhe Li
Australian National University, Australia
A/Prof. Yulin Zhong
Griffith University, Australia
Dr. Dinushi Munasingha Mudiyanselage
University of Technology Sydney
A/Prof. Liangzhi Kou
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Dr. Karolina Matuszek
Monash University, Australia
Dr. Hongtao Wang
Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Prof. Zhigang Chen
Nankai University, China
Prof. Xiangping Li
Jinan University, China
Dr. Chaohao Chen
Australian National University, Australia
Dr. Hongyi Xu
Australian National University, Australia
Dr. Vitor Vieira Rielli
University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Long Hu
University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Yi Ju
RMIT University, Australia
Dr. Yun Liu
University of Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Zhe Yang
The University of Queensland, Australia
Prof. Dongping Zhong
Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Dr. Jinqiang Zhang
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Dr. David Broadway
RMIT University, Australia
Dr. Xin Wu
Xiamen University, China
A/Prof. Kang Liang
University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Benjamin Noble
RMIT University, Australia
A/Prof. Tong Ling
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr. Lei Zhang
Griffith University, Australia
A/Prof. Jiajia Zhou
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Dr. Chun-Ho Lin
University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Mega Kar
Deakin University, Australia
Dr. Peng Chen
University of Queensland, Australia
Dr. Meng Zhang
University of New South Wales, Australia
Prof. Longsheng Cao
University of Science and Technology of China, China
Dr. Rijia Lin
University of Queensland, Australia
Dr. Emma Lovell
University of New South Wales, Australia
Prof. Qiang Gao
University of Science and Technology of China, China
Prof. Fariba Dehghani
University of Sydney, Australia
Prof. Huanyu Jin
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Jiangang Feng
University of Science and Technology of China, China
A/Prof. Dongchen Qi
Queensland University of Technology, Australia