Professor G.Q. Max Lu
FTSE FIChemE Federation Fellow, Chair of Nanotechnology

Dr Lu holds the Chair of Chemical Engineering in Nanotechnology, and is Director of the ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, at the University of Queensland, Australia. Professor Lu is elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He is also awarded the prestigious Australian Professorial Fellowship under the Australian Research Council’s fellowship program. In 2003, he was awarded the Australian Federation Fellowship – the highest honor in Australia for academics and researchers. Since 2003, he has served on two Expert Advisory Working Groups of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council.

Dr Lu is recognized as an international expert on nanoparticles, nanoporous materials and membranes for clean energy and environmental applications. He's co-authored more than 180 international refereed journals papers and over 140 conference publications, edited 4 books and holds 5 international patents. His publications have been widely cited (>1800 citations according to ISI index). He has supervised 3 Masters, and 12 PhD students all successfully graduated. Currently he supervises 10 PhD students. He has attracted and managed $10.8 millions research funding from both industries & governmental agencies. In 1997, Dr Lu received the Young Researcher Award conferred by the IUMRS. He won the University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award in 1999. He received the Queensland Sustainable Energy Innovation Foundation Award in 2000 for his work on new catalyst for conversion of biogas to methanol. For his continuing and distinguished contribution to Chemical Engineering, he was awarded the Prestigious Orica Award in 2001 by IEAust, IChemE, and RACI. He won the 2002 Le Fevre Prize by Australian Academy of Science for outstanding contribution in physical chemistry. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious RK Murphy Medal for distinguished contribution to industrial chemistry by RACI. In 2004, he was named in the top 100 most influential engineers in Australia by Institution of Engineers Australia. He was member of delegation (2001) and leader of the Australian delegation (2003) to visit leading research institutions in Japan and Korea, sponsored by the Department of Education, Science and Training.

He has been invited as keynote and plenary speaker to many conferences and meetings (>23) and invited speaker to many universities & companies around the world. He serves on editorial boards of 7 international journals including Carbon, Int. Journal Nanoscience, J. Porous Materials, J. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Key Engineering Materials, Chinese Science Bulletin and as guest editors for Gas Separation and Purification, Energy and Fuels, Colloid and Surfaces, and Catalysis Today. In 2002, he was appointed by the Australia Research Council as an expert advisory committee member for Engineering and Environmental Sciences. He was technical chairman for 2 international conferences on energy & environmental technologies & Co-chairman for 2 symposia on porous materials. He has been invited to be on national advisory boards for several national conferences on catalysis and energy, and session chair in many workshops and meetings. He co-chaired the Materials Research Society's Symposium on Nanophase & Nanocomposite Materials, held in Boston late Nov, 2001. He has served as session chairs in numerous conferences & on international advisory boards for several international conferences. He is a Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute since 1999. He is an elected Fellow of IChemE, UK. He is Honorary Professor /Visiting Professor to Princeton University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Petroleum China, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Nanyang Technological University.