Dr Xiaoguang Duan is an Associate Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide. His research areas focus on catalytic engineering, functional materials, advanced water purification technologies. Dr Duan has published over 300 peer-reviewed research papers in Nature Water, Nature Communications, Chemical Review, Chemical Society Review, Advanced Materials, Angew Chem Int Ed, ACS Catalysis etc. His publications received >44,000 citations with h-index of 111. He is a highly cited researcher in ‘Environment/Ecology’ and ’Chemistry’, and received the ‘MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35’, ACS ‘James J. Morgan’ Awards, and Young Tall Poppy Award.

Saba got her bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan in 2018. She finished at the top of her class and was awarded with a gold medal for outstanding academic achievement. She completed her M.Sc. from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia, in 2022, where she developed activated porous carbon from rubber-seed shells for CO2 adsorption. She joined RMIT as a PhD candidate in 2022 and is working on synthesizing supported and unsupported liquid metal catalytic systems for ammonia synthesis. She has experience in material development and characterization using advanced techniques including TEM, TGA, and GC/MS.

Md Abdul Jalil is a PhD student at the University of Adelaide's School of Chemical Engineering working on developing 2D materials, and their composites, for sensing applications. He earned his M. Sc in Physics from BUET, Bangladesh. He then studied at CUET, Bangladesh, obtaining his M. Phil. Prior to beginning his PhD, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Physics at CUET. He has expertise in advanced materials synthesis and characterization techniques. His research aims to develop scalable, cost and energy effective sensors for safety monitoring in hydrogen energy sector.

Yiran Jiao is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Chemical Engineering, the University of Adelaide, under the supervision of Professor Yan Jiao. His research focuses on the rational design of materials for clean energy production, with particular emphasis on the integration of first-principles simulations and artificial intelligence.