About Us

The Australian Carbon Materials Centre (A-CMC) has brought together a global leadership team comprising internationally well-known full professors, associate professors, mid and early career university researchers, postdoctoral research fellows, and research students with complementary multidisciplinary expertise and specialised knowledge to accelerate new integrated paradigm of carbon science and technology transformation for solving current and emerging energy, environment, and biomedical challenges.

Director, Liming Dai is the 2019 Australian Laureate Fellow, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, UNSW Scientia Professor, and SHARP Professor. Prof. Dai also serves as an Advisory Committee Member of the American Carbon Society and an Associate Editor of Nano Energy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors, and Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences. He has published >500 peer-reviewed journal papers, which have cumulatively received 122,577 citations and an H-index of 173 (Google Scholar, Sep 2023). He has also published a research monograph on intelligent macromolecules for smart devices and 6 edited/co-edited books on carbon materials for advanced energy systems and biomedical applications, along with more than 20 issued/applied patents. Prof. Dai has been a ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ (Clarivate/Web of Science) in both Materials Science and Chemistry every year since 2015 and recently received the 2019 IUMRS-Somiya Award from the International Union of Materials Research Societies, and the 2019 Australian Laureate Fellowship.

Deputy Director, Professor Zhenhai Xia is a Deputy Director of the Australian Carbon Materials Centre at UNSW. Before joining UNSW, he was a Full Professor jointly appointed at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Department of Chemistry at the University of North Texas, USA. His current research interests include multiscale and multi-physics modelling of clean energy conversion and storage, biological and bioinspired materials and surfaces, and mechanics of nanostructured materials/composites. He has authored one book, 7 book chapters and over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including Science and Nature series. His work has been cited over 23,000 citations with an h-index 53 (Google Scholar) and over 15 highly-cited papers/hot papers selected by Web of Science. He was the recipient of 1997 Humboldt Scholarship award from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany; 2015 Nanoscience Research Leader Award from Science Letters, USA; 2019 Somiya Award from the International Union of Materials Research Societies; and 2020 Scientist Award from the International Association of Advanced Materials, He is the associate editor of Frontiers in Energy Materials.

Deputy Director, Da-Wei Wang is currently an ARC Future Fellow and a UNSW Scientia Associate Professor. Da-Wei has contributed 2 book chapters, >100 journal publications, 8 patents and over 20 keynote/invited presentations, which received 23,564 citations with an H-index of 59 (Google Scholar, July 2021). He has attracted numerous competitive external grants and won some prestigious awards, including the 2020 Young Scientist Award (under 40) by the The International Coalition for Energy Storage and Innovation; the 2018-2020 Highly Cited Researcher Award by Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics; the Finalist of 2018 AMP Tomorrow Maker; and the 2013 Scopus Young Researcher Award in Engineering and Technology by Elsevier & Australasia Research Management Society.