Prof. Jun Huang
"Tailoring acid catalysts for sustainable bio-refining"
Faculty of Engineering, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney
Professor Jun Huang received his PhD from University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2008 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and ETH Zürich, Switzerland, respectively. He was appointed as a permanent faculty at the University of Sydney in 2010 and ranked up to Professor. His research is to develop emerging catalytic technologies for more attractive, practical, and cleaner processes using in situ spectroscopic and microscopic techniques, coupled with new catalyst design and innovative reaction engineering. Jun has published over 160 journal publications in high-rank Catalysis Journals as well as in Chem/Science Journals. He has been awarded many prestigious awards including ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award (2021), Australia’s Most Innovative Engineer (2020), and The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence Outstanding Research (2017). Jun is the Editor-in-Chief of Materials Today Sustainability and the editor board members of other international journals.