Huan Liu

Hua Kun Liu is a Chief Scientist and in charge of the research at the Institute of Energy Materials Science (IEMS), the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) from September 2022. She was a distinguished Professor (2014- 2018 and 2019-2023) at Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM), University of Wollongong (UOW). She was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering (ATSE) in 2013 and awarded the Doctor of Science (DSc) by UOW in 2017. She was awarded the highly competitive Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Professorial Fellowships in 1994-1998, 1999-2003, 2003-2005, and 2006-2010. She received the University of Wollongong Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence Senior Researcher in 2013 and Life Achievement Award by ASTS in 2018. She has completed 52 research grants and 80% from ARC. She is one of the Chief Investigators for Auto CRC 2020 programs on energy storage (2012-2017) and for Smart Sodium Storage System project supported by Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA, 2016-2020). She has been named as ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 by Thompson Reuters in Materials Science with 75455 citations and h-index = 137 (Scopus). She has supervised and co-supervised ~100 PhD students to completion and more than 40 postdoctoral and visiting fellow who have been widely spread within five continents. Professor Liu is the founder of the internationally renowned energy materials program within the ISEM at the University of Wollongong. Under her leadership, the energy materials research group has grown to 60 postgraduate students and 10 full time staff in 2019. Her group has made great contributions to Australia and the world in the energy storage materials area in all the world ranking schemes. She was awarded the order of Australia in 2022.