Our people

Professor John Zhou, Centre Director
Research interests: environmental photocatalysis, combustion emission monitoring, energy from waste, biochar.

Professor Zhenguo Huang, Deputy Director, ARC Future Fellow
Research interests: hydrogen energy system, hydrogen production, hydrogen storage, electrolyte materials, boron nanomaterials.
Professor Zhenguo Huang leads the Hydrogen Energy Program at UTS.

Dr Nic Surawski, Senior Lecturer
Research interests: vehicle emissions, air quality, alternative fuels, environmental monitoring and modelling.

Dr Ali Altaee, Senior Lecturer
Research interests: desalination, membrane technologies, water and wastewater treatment, soil remediation, renewable energy, optimization and machine learning.

Dr Peter Irga, ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer
Research interests: air quality, atmospheric environment, biofiltration and sustainability.

Dr Yuhan Huang, ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer
Research interests: air quality, vehicle emissions, pollutant dispersion, renewable fuels, advanced combustion concepts, computational fluid dynamics

Dr Limei Yang, Lecturer
Research interests: energy conversion and storage, batteries, hydrogen, solar energy, thermal energy

Dr Minghong Huang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research interests: electrochemical catalysis, MOF-derived electrocatalysts, hydrogen generation, electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction, small organic molecules oxidation