Xiaoguang Duan

Dr. Xiaoguang Duan is a full Professor and ARC Future Fellow (2024–2028) in the School of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Duan’s research spans environmental science, green catalysis, functional (nano)materials, advanced water purification technologies, C1 chemistry, solar fuels, waste management and upgrading, and theoretical computational sciences.

He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed research papers, including 80 ESI Highly Cited Papers (top 1%), in leading journals such as Nature Water (6), Nature Sustainability, Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews (2), Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Materials (5), Angewandte Chemie (9), PNAS, Matter, Nature Communications (7), Environmental Science & Technology (30). His publications have accrued over 50,000 citations with an h-index of 118 (Web of Science), and over 50,000 citations with an h-index of 124 (Google Scholar).

Dr. Duan is on the editorial board of Applied Catalysis B: Environment & Energy (Elsevier), Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier), Cleaner Chemical Engineering (Elsevier), npj Materials Sustainability (Nature Springer), AI Agent, and Biochar (Springer), as well as Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ACS ES&T Engineering, Environmental Science & Technology, Next Sustainability, Chemical Engineering Journal, Chinese Chemical Letters, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Materials Today Energy, EcoMat etc.

He has secured over AUD 3 million in research funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and other sources, including an ARC DECRA Fellowship (DE21), an ARC Future Fellowship (Level 2, FT23), Discovery Projects (DP21, DP23), ARC LIEF grant, Linkage Project(LP25), 17 merit beamline grants from the Australian Synchrotron, and four allocations from Australia's National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).

Dr. Duan’s contributions have been recognized by numerous accolades, including the ACS Catalysis ECR Award and the Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigator Award. He was named one of The Australian newspaper’s Top 40 Rising Stars (2018–2021), a MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 (Asia Pacific) in 2021, the ES&T James J. Morgan Award recipient in 2023, and an AIPS Young Tall Poppy Award recipient in 2024. Since 2020, he has been recognized as a Global Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in multiple categories (Environment/Ecology, Chemistry, and Cross-Field from 2019-2023).