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Group director

Professor

Director of Process Modelling and Optimisation of Reacting Flows (ProMO) Laboratory

Senior advisors

Adjunct Professor

Advisor for Ironmaking and Steelmaking Research

(Former Manager, ironmaking/Steelmaking R&D, BlueScope)

Sharif Jahanshahi

Adjunct Professor

Advisor for Ironmaking and Steelmaking Research

(Former Theme Leader, Sustainable Metal Production, CSIRO)

Professional staff

Senior Administrative Officer

Work Room 519, E10 Hilmer Building
School of Material Sciences and Engineering, UNSW

Academic staff

Yuting Zhuo

Lecturer, ARC Early Career Industry Fellow

Work Room 220, E10 Hilmer Building
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Process modelling and optimisation

Xiaobing Yu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Modelling of innovative operations of ironmaking blast furnace

Shuang Song

Postdoctoral Fellow

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Modelling of fluid flow through packed beds and applications in water treatment processes

Zhouzun Xie

Postdoctoral Fellow

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Modelling of fluid flow through packed beds and applications

Dazhao Gou

Postdoctoral Fellow

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
GPU-based CFD-DEM modelling on solar panel pyrolysis
recycling

Qiyuan Li

Postdoctoral Fellow

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Solar panel recycling

Lixue Jiang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Electrochemistry

Ziguang Zhao

Research Associate

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Modelling of innovative operations of ironmaking blast furnace

Xinxin Tang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
CFD-DEM modelling of solar panel recycling processes

Ming Jiang Gan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Modelling of hydrogen and biomass injection in blast furnaces

Ehsan Farajzadehdevin

Research Assistant

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Data-driven modelling of ironmaking blast furnace

Guoyin Yu

Research Assistant

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Numerical simulation of chemical looping combustion

Jin Xie

Research Assistant

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Transient CFD modelling of blast furnaces

Postgraduate students

Hanan Mohamed Mohsin

PhD 2021 T2

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Electrolyser design for hydrogen production

PhD 2022 T3

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
TBA

Hemal Chowdhury

PhD 2023 T1

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
TBA

Mariye Jahannoush

PhD 2023 T1

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
TBA

PhD 2023 T2

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
TBA

PhD 2023 T2

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Modelling of decarbonisation Injection in blast furnaces

PhD 2023 T2

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
TBA

PhD 2023 T2

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
CFD-DEM modelling of dense particle-gas reacting flow in blast furnaces

PhD 2023 T3

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
CFD-DEM modelling of a reacting flow coupled with phase diagram

PhD 2023 T3

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Reduced-order estimator based on data assimilation

PhD 2023 T3

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Numerical study of gas-based direct reduction shaft furnace Process

PhD 2023 T3

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Simulation of gas-solid reacting flow and machine learning

PhD 2024 T1

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Electric smelting furnace

PhD 2024 T1

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Numerical simulation of fluidised bed ironmaking

PhD 2024 T1

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Electric smelting furnace

PhD 2024 T1

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Solar panel recycling

PhD 2024 T1

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Solar panel recycling

PhD 2024 T1

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Modelling and optimisation of flash ironmaking process

PhD 2024 T3

Work Room 413, E8 SEB
(Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
PINN modelling of multiphase flow

PhD 2025 T3

Work Room 413, E8 SEB
(Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
CFD-DEM modelling and FEA for blast furnaces

PhD 2025 T3

Work Room 413, E8 SEB
(Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Modeling and Simulation of Biomass Utilisation in Blast Furnaces

PhD 2025 T3

Work Room 413, E8 SEB
(Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
TBA

PhD 2025 T3

Work Room 413, E8 SEB
(Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Digital twin simulation and experimental study of leaching process in PV recycling

PhD 2025 T3

Work Room 204, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Process modeling of metal hydride hydrogen storage reactor

MPhil 2024 T3

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Solar panel recycling

MPhil 2024 T3

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Modelling of oxygen blast furnaces

MPhil 2025 T1

Work Room 413, E8 SEB (Science Engineering Building)
School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW

Research area:
Modeling of ironmaking blast furnace and machine learning

Collaborators

BlueScope Steel (AIS) Pty. Ltd.

Blast furnace innovations: sustainable, low-carbon ironmaking project

PV Industries

ARC Research Hub for PhotoVoltaic Solar Panel Recycling and Sustainability

University of Newcastle

Blast furnace innovations: sustainable, low-carbon ironmaking project

Rio Tinto

Blast furnace innovations: sustainable, low-carbon ironmaking project

University of Technology Sydney

Blast furnace innovations: sustainable, low-carbon ironmaking project

ARC Research Hub for PhotoVoltaic Solar Panel Recycling and Sustainability

University of Wollongong

ARC Research Hub for PhotoVoltaic Solar Panel Recycling and Sustainability

University of Western Australia

Blast furnace innovations: sustainable, low-carbon ironmaking project

University of Queensland

Blast furnace innovations: sustainable, low-carbon ironmaking project

University of Queensland

ARC Research Hub for PhotoVoltaic Solar Panel Recycling and Sustainability

Muhammad Akbar Rhamdhani

Swinburne University of Technology

ARC Research Hub for PhotoVoltaic Solar Panel Recycling and Sustainability

Rodolfo Paulo Santos Ferreira

ArcelorMittal Maizieres Research

Blast furnace innovations: sustainable, low-carbon ironmaking project

ArcelorMittal Maizieres Research

Blast furnace innovations: sustainable, low-carbon ironmaking project

Northeastern University

Blast furnace innovations: sustainable, low-carbon ironmaking project

Waseda University

ARC Research Hub for PhotoVoltaic Solar Panel Recycling and Sustainability

Sinosteel Anshan Research Institute of Thermo-Energy

Blast furnace innovations: sustainable, low-carbon ironmaking project

ARC Research Hub for PhotoVoltaic Solar Panel Recycling and Sustainability

Jinko Solar

ARC Research Hub for PhotoVoltaic Solar Panel Recycling and Sustainability

The University of Adelaide

ARC Research Hub for PhotoVoltaic Solar Panel Recycling and Sustainability