Affiliate of Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation
Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Honorary Fellow
School of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
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Dr Xiangkang Zeng is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the UQ Dow Centre, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Monash University in 2017. He subsequently undertook postdoctoral research at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Monash University before joining UQ as an ARC DECRA Research Fellow (2022-2025) and UQ Amplify Lecturer (2025-2026).
Dr Zeng’s research focuses on functional materials and redox catalysis for energy and environmental applications, particularly electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, peroxide synthesis, CO₂ conversion, and energy storage. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals, including Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Angewandte Chemie, ACS Catalysis, Applied Catalysis B, Water Research, and Green Chemistry. He also has extensive teaching experience in bioprocess engineering, process principles, thermodynamics, and research thesis supervision.
I am a lecturer at the School of Economics, University of Queensland. I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. I study information economics (especially mechanism design and strategic communication) and its applications to industrial organization.
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
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Dr Jihui (Aimee) Zhang is currently a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Queensland, Australia. She is also an honorary lecturer in the Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing (AASP) group, the Australian National University (ANU), Australia. From 2023 to 2024, she was a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton, the United Kingdom. From 2018 to 2022, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and a Research Fellow in the AASP group, ANU, Australia. From May 2018 to Aug.2018, she was a Research Engineer Intern in SONY, Japan.
Her research interest is mainly in Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing, especially Spatial Active Noise Control, Spatial Audio Solution for Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Microphone Arrays. Her other research interest is in Human-Robot/machine Audio Interactions, especially Audio Solution for Human-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Interactions. She has practical experience in Digital Design and Embedded Systems, especially Embedded Automatic Test & Control Systems and Embedded Audio Systems
She is currently a senior member of the IEEE and Signal Processing Society (SPS), a member of Audio Engineering Society (AES) and Acoustical Society of America (ASA). She serves as Student Activities Chair in the IEEE Queensland Section in 2025. She served as a chair of Women in Engineering Affinity Group in IEEE Australian Capital Territory Section in 2021 and 2022.
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
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My research aims to improve how we treat cancer and immune-related diseases by uncovering how cells control immune responses at a molecular level. I focus on how cancer cells evade immune attack by altering the localisation of key immune regulatory proteins on their surface.
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
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Jiale Zhang is a researcher in food science and nutrition at The University of Queensland, with expertise in functional foods, food processing, and bioactive compounds. My current work focuses on how food components change during processing, digestion, and fermentation, and how these changes influence nutrition, gut health, and product quality. I am also working on the product development.
My research brings together food chemistry, metabolomics, and microbiome science to better understand the relationship between food composition and health outcomes. I have worked extensively on Australian native fruits with a particular interest in developing value-added food products and sustainable food materials.
ARC Mid-Career Industry Fellow and AIBN Group Leader
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
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Dr Cheng Zhang is an innovative Research Fellow supported by both ARC and NHMRC. He has an outstanding track record in the fields of fluoropolymers, polymer chemistry and materials science. He has made significant contributions to these fields of research through innovative chemistry to build precise fluoropolymer structures and subsequent molecular-level characterisation to understand the structure-property relationship for specific applications including from energy materials e.g. solid electrolytes, sorbent materials for environmental PFAS remediation, to functional biomaterials e.g. imaging and therapeutic agents.
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
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Wenqiang is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Responsibility in Mining (CERM), Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland. His research focuses on the hydrogeochemistry and hydrogeology of mine waste, particularly acid and neutral metalliferous drainage (AMD/NMD). He has led projects for BHP/BMA on spoil and tailings management and contributed to projects with CRC TiME and RTCM Trailblazer on long-term monitoring of mine waste behaviour, mine closure and rehabilitation. He completed his PhD at The University of Queensland, focusing on desiccation of tailings and salt migration in cover systems. His expertise includes hydro-geochemical and geotechnical characterisation of mine waste, multi-scale kinetic test design, soil cover system monitoring and performance assessment, environmental risk assessment of mine waste, as well as numerical modelling of water, solute, and heat transport in unsaturated soil.
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
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Dr Chenming Zhang is a specialist in monitoring and modelling hydrological processes in coastal/terrestrial groundwater systems and tailings storage facilities, in particular the evaporation induced mass and heat transport in soil/tailings, hydrogeochemical dynamics in aquifer systems and wast rock dumps. He has been developing IoT-based geotechnical and environmental instruments to monitor continuously and in real-time the weather, soil and water conditions.
A/Prof Yao-Zhong Zhang's research interests are in: Algebraic structures, quantum (super)integrable systems, (quasi-)exactly solvable models, supersymmetry, and conformal field theory.
Yao-Zhong Zhang received his PhD from Northwest University, China, in 1988 under the supervision of Prof Bo-Yu Hou. He spent 12 years in Europe, Japan and Australia as Postdoctoral/Research Fellow, before becoming in 2001 a permament staff member as a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics of the University of Queensland. Since 2006, he has been Reader/Associate Professor in the School of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Queensland.
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
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I am currently working on a project investigating intensive hard-rock preconditioning for underground mining, specifically focusing on how hydraulic fracturing and confined blasting support the block caving method.
My research journey began with coal seam gas transport and expanded into proppant transport in hydraulic fractures, leading to my current focus on rock mass preconditioning. With an academic and research background spanning mining, geotechnical, and petroleum engineering, I am passionate about leveraging numerical modeling and emerging AI methods to tackle complex engineering challenges in reservoir simulation, multiphase and granular flow, and rock fragmentation.
Centre Director of Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transf
ARC COE for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Centre Director of Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation
Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Endowed Chair in Sustainable Engineering and Director, Dow Centre
School of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
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Prof. Xiwang Zhang is the Endowed Dow Chair in Sustainable Engineering Innovation at the University of Queensland, Director of UQ Dow Centre, and Director of ARC Centre of Excellence for Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide (GetCO2). He was the Founding Director of ARC Industry Transformation Research Hub for Energy-efficient Separation (EESep) and the Deputy Director of Monash Centre for Membrane Innovation (MCMI) at Monash University before he moved to UQ in early 2022. Prof. Zhang has more than 15 years of R&D experience in both academia and industry with demonstrated achievements in technology development and translation. His research focuses on membrane and advanced oxidation technologies for energy-efficient separation, resource recovery, green chemical synthesis, carbon dioxide conversion and renewable energy generation. Prof. Zhang was the recipient of the prestigious ARC Australian Research Fellowship, Future Fellowship and Monash Larkins Fellowship. In 2024, he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).
