Ziqi Sun

Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Prof. Ziqi Sun, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society, is currently a full professor, ARC Future Fellow, and ARC Industry Mid-Career Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. His research interests include the rational design of multiscale-ordered metal oxide nanomaterials and bio-inspired inorganic smart nanomaterials for sustainable energy and environmental technologies, such as rechargeable batteries, oil-water separation, and catalysis.

Prof. Sun received his PhD in advanced structural ceramics from the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2009. After a year as a NIMS Postdoctoral Fellow in Japan, working on solid oxide fuel cells, he joined the University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia, in 2010, and then moved to QUT as a faculty member in 2015. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Advanced Materials.

Prof. Sun serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Sustainable Materials and Technologies (Impact Factor 9.6), Principal Editor of the Journal of Materials Research (MRS), and Handling Editor of Physics Open.