Professor Max Lu, FTSE
Director and Federation Fellow
ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials
AIBN
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, QLD, 4072
Australia
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Max Lu is a Federation Fellow and Professor of Nanotechnology in Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland. He is the Inaugural Director for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials. His research expertise is in nanoparticles and nanoporous materials for clean energy and water purification technologies. With over 270 journal publications to his credits, he is also co-inventor of 12 international patents. Prof Lu is a highly cited researcher in chemical engineering and materials science with over 3900 citations (with h-index of 33). He has received numerous prestigious awards nationally and internationally including the Orica Award, RK Murphy Medal, Le Fevre Prize, ExxonMobil Award, IUMRS Young Scientist Award, Top 100 Most Influential Engineers in Australia (2004). Top 50 Most Inspiring Chinese in the World (2006). He is elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and Fellow of IChemE. He served on the ARC’s College of Experts (2002-2004), and Expert Advisory Groups of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (2004, 2005). He also served as Chair for the Federal Government’s Research Quality Framework Panel on Engineering and Technology. Recently he was selected to participate in the Australia 2020 summit.
His current research interests include thermochemical conversion of biomass and syngas to ethanol, hydrogen production, purification and storage, photocatalysts for water splitting and organic pollutant degradation, nanoparticles for drug and gene delivery.
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