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. He then held postdoctoral positions at the University of Adelaide and CSIRO, 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, mine waste, and critical minerals, with distinctive methodological capability in in-situ synchrotron and neutron studies. He has secured around AUD$13 million in research funding including nine ARC grants, and leads an ARC Linkage with BHP on mine-waste carbon capture and metals extraction.