Professor Rose Amal
Centre Director
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials
School of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry
The University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW, 2052
Australia
Email: r.amal@unsw.edu.au
Ph : +61 2 9385 4361
Fax: +61 2 9385 5966
Prof Rose Amal is a UNSW Scientia Professor and an ARC Australian Professorial Fellow (APF). Prof Amal was appointed Director of the Centre for Particle and Catalyst Technologies at UNSW in 1997 and in 2004 became the NSW/ACT Node Director of the ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials. More recently (2009), this position was superseded where she is now the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials. She was also the Inaugural Director of Centre for Energy Research and Policy Analysis (CERPA), a UNSW Energy Research Institute.
Prof Amal’s research has spanned varying fields including particle aggregation during the early stages of her career through to photocatalysis and nanoparticle fabrication in more recent years. Applications include water pollution and air quality control, self cleaning surfaces, sustainable and clean alternate energy technologies and biotechnology. Her research has produced over 200 refereed publications.
Throughout her career, Prof Amal has procured over AUD$12 million from national competitive funding sources (ARC, CRC and industry grants). In 2007 she was elected as a member of the ARC College of Experts (Engineering and Environmental Sciences Panel) and in 2009 she was appointed the Chair of this panel. She was also the Chair of the 17th International Conference on Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy, held in Sydney, in 2008, and was the Conference Chair of CHEMECA 2011 in Sydney.
Prof Rose Amal has published 3 book chapters, 184 refereed journal papers and over 100 refereed conference papers, and she has an H-index of 32 with a total of 3444 citations (Scopus, Oct 2011). Prof Rose Amal has received numerous prestigious awards including: UNSW VC Award for Research Supervision Excellence (2003), Freehills Award (2008), Scientia Professor (2009), ARC Professorial Fellowship (2009) and the NSW Science and Engineering Award Emerging Research category (2011).
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