Curtin appoints director for energy research centre

Curtin University has appointed Professor Chun-Zhu Li as the director of its new Curtin Centre for Advanced Energy Science and Engineering. He obtained his PhD in chemical engineering in 1993 from Imperial College London. After postdoctoral research in Imperial College London and CSIRO, he joined Monash University as a lecturer in 1996 where he was promoted to professor in 2006. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from Taiyuan Institute of Technology in China. He will commence his role at Curtin in January.