Dr. Wenxian Li

Biography

Wenxian Li is a Senior Lecturer and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He completed his undergraduate degree in Metallurgical Engineering at Northeastern University and earned his PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Wollongong (UOW). In 2011, he received the UOW Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, followed by an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Industrial) in 2012. He joined the University of Western Sydney as a Lecturer where he was awarded an Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 2015, he was appointed as a Professor with Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning, Shanghai University. He returned to UNSW in 2022, where he was awarded the ARC Future Fellowship in 2023. Li's research focuses on electrochemistry, thermodynamics, kinetics, and catalytic reactions, aiming to develop low-energy consumption catalysts with high mass exchange efficiency. He has published 10 book chapters and over 200 refereed papers on topics such as superconductors, solar energy, and catalysts.

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