



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. Jingrun 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
A/Prof. Noushin Nasiri

Macquarie University, 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
Prof. Arnan Mitchell

RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Ewan Blanch

RMIT University, Australia
Dr. Mu Xiao

University of Queensland, Australia
Dr. Mengran Li

University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Bita Bayatsarmadi

CSIRO, Australia
Dr. Miaoqiang Lyu

The University of Queensland, Australia
Prof. Hanfei Gao

University of Science and Technology of China, China
Prof. Chuxin Li

University of Science and Technology of China, China
Dr. Vitor Vieira Rielli

University of New South Wales, Australia
Prof. Zhongpeng Zhu

University of Science and Technology of China, China
Prof. Yali Yao

University of South Africa, South Africa
Dr. Xiangkang Zeng

University of Queensland, Australia
Dr. Shuying Wu

University of Sydney, Australia
A/Prof. Xin Yuan

Westlake University, China
Prof. Gary Rosengarten

RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Yanglansen Cui

University of Science and Technology of China, China
Prof. Deepak Dubal

Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Prof. Ziqi Sun

Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Prof. Qian Ma

RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Zhen Zhang

University of Science and Technology of China, China
Prof. Chuangqi Zhao

University of Science and Technology of China, China
Dr. Srikanth Mateti

Deakin University, Australia