Leadership Team


Director: Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh	Associate Director (theme materials): Prof. Michael Ferry	Associate Director (theme bioresearch): A/Prof. Rona Chandrawati

Steering Committee

Chair: Prof. Stephen Foster, Acting Dean, UNSW Engineering
Co-chair (possible): Prof. Robert Burford, Former head of School of Chemical Eng at UNSW, Retired
Member: Prof. Xiaolin Wang, Director of the Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials (ISEM), University of Wollongong
Member: Prof. Guangzhao Mao, Current head of the School of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, UNSW
Member: Prof. Paul Munro, Deputy Dean - Research, Faculty of Science, UNSW
Member: Prof. Francecsca Iacopi, School of Electrial and Computer Enineering, Former ARC Future Fellow, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust) University Technology Sydney
Member: Prof. Cordelia Selomulya, Research & Commercialisation Director of the Future Food Systems CRC, also Prof of Chemical Eng. Former ARC Future Fellow, UNSW

Chair: Prof. Julie Cairney, The University of Sydney
Deputy Chair: Prof. Nick Birbilis, Australian National University
Member (Australian): Prof. Zaiping Guo, University of Wollongong, ARC Future Fellow
Member (Australian - Junior academic representative): Dr. Torben Daeneke, School of Chemical Engineering, RMIT
Member (Australian): Prof. Anthony O'Mullane, Queensland University of Technology, ARC Future Fellow
Member (overseas): Prof. Richard Kaner, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Member (overseas): Prof. Michael Dickey, North Carolina State University (NCSU), USA

Chair: Dr. Shane Meaney, Commercial and Industry Engagement Advisory Committee; Knowledge Exchange, UNSW – Dr Meaney will organise the monthly meeting and help in attracting more commecial partners to official join the centre of excellence bid in the next two years
Member: Ms Susmita Thomson, Chevron, Australia
Member: Mr. Paul Butler, UniSeed