Distinguished Professor Peter Ralph is an internationally-respected academic and research leader in the fields of algae bio-systems and biotechnology, seagrasses, and the adaption of aquatic plants to warming and acidifying oceans. He has authored more than 280 publications, including research articles, books and book chapters, and has attracted over $15 million in research funding. Recognising his outstanding contribution to research, Prof Ralph was awarded the 2012 UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence (Research Leadership), and the 2018 UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence (Researcher Development, including Supervision).
Professor Long D. Nghiem is the Director of the Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater and a Professor in Environmental Engineering at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UTS. He received research training and experience from the University of New South Wales, Yale University, University of Melbourne, and University of Wollongong. In 2009, he was a visiting professor at Colorado School of Mines and in 2016, an August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich. To date, Prof Nghiem has supervised to completion 20 PhD and 8 MPhil students, and overseen the delivery of numerous research projects with over $3 million in funding.
Dr Qiang Fu is an ARC Future Fellow and a senior lecturer at UTS, who leads a research group focusing on membrane nanotechnology and polymer materials for energy and environmental applications. He was the recipient of an ARC Super Science Fellowship (2011-2014) and an ARC Future Fellowship. He has published a total of 122 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters, and a granted international patent.
Dr Luong Ngoc Nguyen is an environmental engineer with expertise in wastewater treatment processes. He was a UTS Chancellor’s Research Fellow, and is now a Process Engineer at Veolia Australia and New Zealand.
Dr Andrei Herdean is a Research Associate at UTS, with a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He develops energy efficient ways to grow microalgae for food and feed, as well as a pathway to deep environmental decarbonisation. Using cutting edge laboratory automation and directed evolution he develops the next generation of microalgae that will produce future foods, biofuels, bioplastics and dyes
Dr Leen Labeeuw is a visiting scholar at the Climate Change Cluster at UTS with a background in biochemical engineering and environmental technology from UCL and Imperial College. Her research focuses on looking at the design needs for upscaling a photobioreactor for the large-scale axenic growth of microalgae.
Bernardo Campos Diocaretz is a Research Assistant at UTS. His career began as a programmer, while his passion for innovation led him to work in R&D. He oversaw system automation on the “AYA” project, a winner in the "beyond bauhaus - prototyping the future" competition. He has combined his programming and automation experience to develop the flickering technology used in the Green Genie.
