Hongwei Wu
University of Hertfordshire
UK
Prof Hongwei Wu received his Bachelor and Master of Engineering in Thermal Power Engineering, from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China. He then pursued his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia. After a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Monash University, Australia, Prof Wu was appointed as a junior lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Curtin University, Australia, in August 2002. He was then promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006 and Associate Professor in 2008. Since Jan 2010, he has been made as a full professor of chemical engineering at Curtin University. He has won the 2010 Curtin Commercial Innovation Award and 2011 Western Australia Innovator of the Year Woodside Encouragement Award. He was also the recipient of the inaugural 2018 Curtin Awards for Excellence in Higher Degree by Research Supervision. He is a fellow of the Combustion Institute (2019). After served as Associate Editor (2008-2019), Prof Wu has then been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of Energy & Fuels by the American Chemical Society since Jan 2020.
