Sustainability, Circularity and the Just Transition Researchers
 
  ISER researchers are working to create a better future in a broad range of projects in sustainability, circularity and the just transition to net zero emissions.
| Researchers | keywords | 
|---|---|
| Prof Zaiping Guo | battery recycling | 
| A/Prof Jianfeng Mao | battery recycling | 
| A/Prof Philip van Eyk | battery recycling | 
| Dr Jingxiu Wang | battery recycling | 
| Dr Zhixiao Xu | battery recycling | 
| Dr Chao Ye | battery recycling | 
| Prof Shizhang Qiao | battery recycling; energy storage and catalysis | 
| Prof David Lewis | battery recycling; low carbon solutions; energy-water-environment nexus | 
| Dr Ali Pourmousavi Kani | battery storage | 
| Prof Simon Holford | carbon capture and storage | 
| A/Prof Rosalind King | carbon capture and storage | 
| Dr Mark Bunch | carbon capture and storage | 
| Dr Zizhou (Steve) Xiang | carbon capture and storage | 
| Prof Chris Sumby | carbon capture, utilisation and storage | 
| Dr Alfonso Chinnici | carbon capture, utilisation and storage; waste recovery | 
| Maria Gonzalez Perdomo | carbon emissions analytics; underground carbon and hydrogen storage simulation | 
| Prof Patrick O'Connor | carbon sequestration; biodiversity conservation | 
| Prof Shaobin Wang | catalysts for energy conversion; energy efficiency; environmental remediation | 
| Prof Jian Zuo | circular economy; solid waste recycling; renewable energy recycling | 
| Prof Kannan Govindan | circular economy; sustainable supply chain management | 
| Prof Peter Draper | circular trade; value chains | 
| A/Prof Douglas Bardsley | climate change | 
| Prof Peng Bi | climate change | 
| Dr Alice Jones | climate change | 
| Prof Ivan Nagelkerken | climate change | 
| Prof Seth Westra | climate change | 
| A/Prof Jonathan Tyler | climate change | 
| Douglas Radford | climate change adaptation; natural hazards | 
| Dr Thomas Wanner | climate change governance; socially just transitions | 
| Dr Tracey Dodd | climate change; sustainability and circularity; ESG, renewable energy policy | 
| Prof Peng Shi | cybersecurity theory and applications; robotic and autonomous systems; automation and control systems design; faulty detection, analysis and resilience | 
| James Hancock | economics of sustainable energy | 
| Anthony Kosturjak | economics of sustainable energy | 
| Dr Jonathan Baker | (eco)systemic perspectives of transition to circularity | 
| Dr Cristiana Ciobanu | energy storage and creation | 
| Prof Zonghan Xie | energy storage and creation | 
| Prof Yao Zheng | energy storage and creation | 
| Prof Yan Jiao | energy storage and creation | 
| Prof Dusan Losic | energy storage and creation | 
| Dr Jingrun Ran | energy storage and creation | 
| A/Prof Abel Santos | energy storage and creation | 
| A/Prof Philip Kwong | energy storage and creation; sustainability and circularity | 
| Dr Rachelle Kernen | geoethics; carbon capture and storage; just sustainable transition | 
| Prof Graham Heinson | geophysics for exploration; geothermal energy | 
| A/Prof Manouchehr Haghighi | geo-zero; carbon sequestration | 
| Dr Cristian Birzer | humanitarian technologies | 
| A/Prof Chaoshui Xu | innovative and sustainable mining technologies | 
| Prof Nigel Spooner | material-specific sensing; optical sensing; critical minerals sensor technology | 
| Dr Qazi Haque | pathway to low-cost large-scale net-zero hydrogen production | 
| Prof Firmin Doko Tchatoka | pathway to low-cost large-scale net-zero hydrogen production | 
| A/Prof Tony Hooker | radioactive waste | 
| Dr Alexandra Wawryk | renewable energy and law | 
| A/Prof Nesimi Ertugul | renewable energy systems | 
| Dr Alireza Salmachi | renewable energy systems | 
| Prof Michael Goodsite | sustainability | 
| Prof Melissa Nursey-Bray | sustainability | 
| Prof Volker Hessel | sustainability; circularity; ESG; e-waste recycling; recovery of critical minerals from e-waste | 
| Dr Ruidong Chang | sustainable buildings | 
| Prof Veronica Soebarto | sustainable buildings | 
| Dr Mohammad Boshir Ahmed | sustainable materials development for plant growth and metal recovery | 
| A/Prof Devika Kannan | sustainable supply chain management | 
| A/Prof Craig Johns | sustainable value chains | 
| A/Prof Adam Loch | sustainable water | 
| Prof Holger Maier | sustainable water and energy | 
| A/Prof Murat Karakus | underground waste management (e.g. paste backfill); sustainable mine design; monitoring and mitigation of geotechnical hazards; minimising ground failure resource loss | 
| A/Prof Charlie Hargroves | urban sustainability; net-zero strategies; decentralised energy; sustainable transport | 
| A/Prof Scott Hawken | urban sustainability; sustainable urban transitions | 
| A/Prof Mark Thyer | urban water management | 
| Dr Lei Chen | using autonomous precision technology for sustainable farming and defence applications | 
