Shizhang Qiao FAA is an Australian researcher, material scientist, and chair professor at the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, University of Adelaide. He specialises in nanostructured materials for electrocatalysis, batteries, and photocatalysis. [1]
He was the 2021 recipient of the SA Scientist of the Year for energy conversion and storage technologies. [2] He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2023, [3] alongside Professor Zaiping Guo and Tim Brodribb. [4]
Shizhang was educated at Tianjin University of Science and Technology, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science and a Master's Degree. He holds a doctorate degree (Ph.D.) from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is an Australian Laureate Fellow and the Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry's EES Catalysis Journal, the Journal of Energy and Environmental Catalysis. [5] He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher. [6]
Shizhang is one of the most cited Australian researcher. His research has been cited 119,289 times, with an h-index of 117 and an i10-index of 481. His work on the "design of electrocatalysts for oxygen-and hydrogen-involving energy conversion reactions" and "Anatase TiO2 single crystals with a large percentage of reactive facets" are his most cited works with a citation of 4392 and 4242 respectively. [7]
Sir John Meurig Thomas, also known as JMT, was a Welsh scientist, educator, university administrator, and historian of science primarily known for his work on heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemistry, and surface and materials science.
Tobin Jay Marks is an inorganic chemistry Professor, the Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry, Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Professor of Applied Physics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Among the themes of his research are synthetic organo-f-element and early-transition metal organometallic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials chemistry, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, molecule-based photonic materials, superconductivity, metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, and biological aspects of transition metal chemistry.
Martina Heide Stenzel is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She is also a Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) University Ambassador. She became editor for the Australian Journal of Chemistry in 2008 and has served as Scientific Editor and as of 2021, as Editorial Board Chair of RSC Materials Horizons.
Jinlong Gong is a Chinese chemist and professor of chemical engineering at Tianjin University. He is best known for his work in the areas of heterogeneous catalysis, surface science, and hydrogen energy.
Rose Amal is an Australian chemical engineer, currently serving as Scientia Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where she is the director of the Particles and Catalysis Research Group. Previously she was Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials (2010–2013). From 2012 to 2015 she was named in the Engineers Australia list of Australia's Top 100 Most Influential Engineers. In 2014 she became the first female engineer elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav is an Indian chemical engineer, inventor and academic, known for his research on nanomaterials, gas absorption with chemical reaction and phase transfer catalysis. He served as the vice chancellor of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai from 2009 until November 2019. He is currently the Emeritus Professor of Eminence at ICT Mumbai.
Ajayan Vinu is a material scientist. He is currently the Global Innovation Chair Professor for Advanced Nanomaterials and the director of Global Innovative Centre for Advanced Nanomaterials (GICAN), The University of Newcastle since October 2017 which houses more than 60 researchers including PhD students and staff. Before moving to the University of Newcastle, he was a professor of Nanomaterials at the University of South Australia from 2015-2017. and also worked at the University of Queensland as a Professor and ARC Future Fellow from 2011-2015. He is well known in the field of mesoporous carbon nitride and was the first one to introduce porosity in carbon nitride materials which find applications in different areas of research including catalysis, energy storage and conversion and carbon dioxide capture, and photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen generation.
Balasubramanian Viswanathan also known as BV, is a highly accomplished Indian material scientist, an emeritus professor at IIT Madras and husband of late Vijayalakshmi Viswanathan, the first woman financial commissioner of Indian Railways. He is well known in the field of catalysis and material science and has been instrumental in setting up and running the first National Centre for Catalysis Research at IIT Madras. He has authored more than 30 books with top publishers including Springer Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier, covering various aspects of material science, catalysis, nanotechnology, Energy, Fuel cells, CO2 reduction and has published more than 600 scientific journals. He is considered to be an authority on catalysis and material science in the scientific world and has an H-index of 61 resulting from more than 14,000 citations.
T. Don Tilley is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.
Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh is an Australian scientist involved in research in the fields of materials sciences, electronics, and transducers. He is best known for his works on two-dimensional semiconductors, ingestible sensors and liquid metals. He led his group to the invention of an ingestible chemical sensor: human gas sensing capsule.
Judy Hirst is a British scientist specialising in mitochondrial biology. She is Director of the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit at the University of Cambridge.
Jingguang Chen is a Chinese-American chemical engineer. He is the Thayer Lindsley Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University, with a joint appointment as Senior Chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory. Over the course of his career Chen has made significant contributions to the fundamental understanding and use of novel materials for catalytic and electrocatalytic applications, including research into the development of bimetallic and transition metal carbide catalysts.
The SA Scientist of the Year is awarded by the South Australian State Government for eminence in science as part of the annual SA Science Excellence and Innovation Awards.
Sybren Otto is Professor of Systems chemistry at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen.
Sudhhasatwa Basu is an Indian chemical engineer. He is director of Council of Scientific Industrial Research - Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT) in Bhubaneswar, India, and is Professor of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai and Professor of AcSIR. His research interests include electrokinetic and electrochemical phenomena in fuel cells.
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Vivek Vijayrao Polshettiwar is an Indian chemist who is a professor of chemistry at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He was awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry prize for Green Chemistry in 2022. He was the winner of the prestigious Falling Walls Prize in the Physical Sciences category. In 2024, he was elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (FASc).