Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
1986 Kembla Coal & Coke (KCC) Scholar (86-89)
1990 CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (90-91)
1993 ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship Award (93-97)
2001 Anthony Mason Fellowship Award, UNSW
2002 Josef Kapitan Ironmaking Award, Iron and Steel Society (ISS)
2002 Outstanding Overseas Chinese Scholar Award, China (03)
2004 Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)
2005 ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship (APF) Award (05-09)
2006 Scientia Professor, University of New South Wales (07-)
2007 Doctor of Science (DSc), University of New South Wales
2008 ARC Federation Fellowship (FF) Award (08-13)
2009 Ian Wark Medal and Lecture 2010 (for outstanding research contributing to the prosperity of Australia, one recipient per two years), Australian Academy of Science
2010 ExxonMobile Award (for significant ongoing contributions to Chemical Engineering through a series of related publications over a number of years), Australian and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineers.
2010 NSW Scientist of the Year (in the category of engineering, mathematics and computer sciences), NSW State Government.
2011 Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Award, the Royal Academyof Engineering (UK)
2011 Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (AAS)
2011 Top 100 Most Influential Engineers in Australia, Institution of Engineers Australia
2012 Supervisor of the Year Award, UNSW Postdoctoral Academy
2014 Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales, (http://www.royalsoc.org.au/)
2014 Baosteel Professor, Baosteel, China
2014 Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow, Monash University
2016 Listed in Most Cited Researchers in Chemical Engineering, Elsevier
2017 Academician (Foreign Fellow), Chinese Academy of Engineering
2019 Alumni Award for Research and Scholarship, University of Wollongong
2019 Thomas Baron Award in Fluid-Particle Systems, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
2021 Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor, Monash University
Professional Activities:
(a) Membership of Professional Societies:
1996-1999 Vice-President, Chinese Australian Academic Society
2000-2003 Vice-President, Australian Chinese Society of Science and Technology
2003-2006 Secretary, Australasian Particle Technology Society
2004- Fellow, Institution of Chemical Engineers
2004- Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (http://www.atse.org.au/)
2006-2010 Honorary Secretary, NSW Division, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (also member of ATSE Assembly/Council in 2008-10)
2007- President (07-08), Chair of Advisory Board (09-10) and Honorary President (11- ), Federation of Chinese Scholars in Australia (http://www.focsa.org.au/)
2010- Elected Committee Member, Association pour l'Etude de la Micromécanique des Milieux Granu (AEMMG)
2011- Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (http://www.science.org.au/)
2013-2014 Chair, NSW Region, Australian Academy of Science (the position held until moving to Monash Univ.in Melbourne)
2013-2016 Member and then Chair from 2014, Sectional committee of physical and engineering sciences, Australian Academy of Science
2013- Australian representative, Chemical Reaction Engineering Committee
2014- Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales (http://www.royalsoc.org.au/)
2017- Foreign Fellow/Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering
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(b) Professional (Editing/Refereeing) Service:
Being active in refereeing papers for many international journals (e.g. Powder Technology, Chemical Engineering Science, Journal of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Langmuir, Physical Review (PRL & PRE), Nature, Computers and Chemical Engineering, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, and Minerals Engineering).
More importantly, involved in various editorial work as listed below:
1999 Engineering Editor, SCIENCE-ADVANCING INTO THE NEW MILLENNUM, People's Education Press (China), 1999 (ISBN 7-107-13208-3)
2002 Co-editor, Proc. Int. Blast Furnace Lower Zone Symposium, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2005 (ISBN 920806 30 X)
2003- Associate Editor, Chinese Science Bulletin, Springer (ISSN: 1001-6538)
2004 Guest Editor, Steel Research International (for a special issue on process metallurgy), Wiley InterScience (ISSN: 1611-3683)
2005- Member of Editorial Board and Thematic Editor (2009-), Particuology, Elsevier (ISSN: 1672-2515)
2005-08 Member of Editorial Board, Science in China – B: Chemistry, Springer (ISSN: 1006-9291)
2007- Member of Editorial Board, 4 journals published by Bentham Science Publisher: Recent Patents on Engineering (ISSN: 1872-2121), Recent Patents on Nanotechnology (ISSN: 1872-2105), Recent Patents on Chemical Engineering (ISSN: 1874-4788), and Recent Patents on Materials Science (ISSN: 1874-4648)
2007- Member of Editorial Board, Powder Technology, Elsevier (ISSN: 0032-5910)
2008- Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation (IJESMS), Interscience Publishers (ISSN: 1755-9758)
2008- Member of Editorial Board, Granular Matter, Springer (ISSN: 1434-5021)
2008 Guest Editor, Special issue on simulation and modeling of particulate systems, Particuology, Elsevier (ISSN: 1672-2515)
2009-11 Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, American Chemical Society Publications (ISSN: 0888-5885)
2009 Guest Editor, Minerals Engineering (special issue on computational mineral processing), Elsevier (ISSN: 0892-6875)
2010 Guest Editor (for a special issue on iron and steel making), Steel Research International, Wiley InterScience (ISSN: 1611-3683)
2011- Member of Editorial Board, Chinese Journal of Rare Metals, The Nonferrous Metals Society of China (ISSN: 0258-7076)
2011-14 Member of Advisory Board, ISIJ International, The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan (ISSN: 0915-1559)
2012- Member of Advisory Board, ISRN Chemical Engineering (ISSN: 2090-861X)
2012- Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Material Science and Engineering, OMICS Publishing Group (ISSN: 2169-0022)
2013- Member of Editorial Board, Rare Metals, Springer (ISSN: 1001-0521)
2013- Associate Editor, Journal of Energy Chemistry, Elsevier (ISSN: 2095-4956)
2013- Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Nano Studies & Technology, SciDoc Publisher (ISSN: 2167-8685)
2013- Member of Editorial Board, National Science Review (NSR), Oxford Journals (ISSN: 2095-5138)
2013- Editor, Powder Technology, Elsevier (ISSN: 0032-5910)
2014- Editor-in-Chief, Handbook (or Book Series) of Powder Science and Engineering, Springer
2014 Guest Editor, International Journal of Mineral Processing, Elsevier (ISSN: 0301-7516)
2016- Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Nanotechnology and Materials Science, Ommega Publishers (ISSN: 2377-1372)
2017- Editor, Granular Matter, Elsevier (ISSN: 1434-5021)