Dr Ali Abbas — Acting Head of School & Founding Director of Waste Transformation Research Hub at USYD
About Ali
Ali is Professor of Chemical Engineering and SOAR Fellow at the University of Sydney in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He is Acting Head of School, and is Founding Director of the Waste Transformation Research Hub, a national centre aimed at addressing the waste industry’s research and technological challenges. He is the founder and director of the Laboratory for Multiscale Systems.
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Ali received both his Bachelors and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia. He has held previous academic appointments at NTU (Singapore) and UNSW Asia (Singapore) and visiting professor positions at several institutions including Harvard.
Ali has 20 years’ experience in the field of Process Systems Engineering, with expertise in process intensification and design, techno-economic feasibility, process scale-up / optimal operation, with applications in low-emissions technologies, Eco-industrial parks, waste, clean energy, biotechnology and biomedical systems.
In recent years, Ali has been working on circular economy transitions, identifying ways to translate the circular economy principles into practice. Ali is a leading Australian figure in circular economy and Chairs the Australian Circular Economy Conference.
He conducts fundamental computational and applied research with emphasis on multi-scale systems resource optimisation and efficiency, and has published more than 130 papers in international scientific and engineering journals.
Ali is the recipient of multiple awards including the Australia-Harvard Fellowship 2011 as well as the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) Fellowship 2012 (Australia-China Future Leader in Clean Coal Technologies). In 2008, A/Prof. Abbas was awarded the PSE Model-based innovation prize (London, UK) recognising his work in model-based optimal process operations, and received the same award as runner-up in 2015. He received the inaugural Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) fellowship for University’s most talented researchers in recognition of research leadership.
Ali provides consultations to industry and Government, and is active in commercialization activities, developing breakthrough deep technologies across multiple industry sectors in his capacity as company Founder and Director.
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