About me
Prof. Fang Xia completed his Bachelor of Materials Engineering and Master of Materials Science at East China University of Science and Technology, and his PhD at the School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, where his doctoral work applied chemical engineering reactors to study mineral transformation reactions and their applications in functional materials syntheses. He then held postdoctoral positions at the University of Adelaide and CSIRO Process Science and Engineering, developing reactors for in-situ neutron and synchrotron studies of mineral and materials transformation at the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering and the Australian Synchrotron, before joining Murdoch University in 2015. His current research covers the science and engineering of minerals and materials for a sustainable future, spanning reaction engineering, carbon capture/storage, mine waste, and critical minerals/metals, with distinctive methodological capability in in-situ synchrotron and neutron studies, along with electron microscopic and spectroscopic techniques, and thermodynamic and kinetic modelling. He has extensive international and national collaborations with scientists, industry partners, and government agencies, and has secured ~AUD$13 million in research funding from over 80 competitive grants, including 9 highly competitive ARC grants, leading Discovery Project and Linkage Project.