Professor Aibing Yu specialises in process metallurgy, obtaining BEng in 1982 and MEng in 1985 from Northeastern University, PhD in 1990 from the University of Wollongong, and DSc in 2007 from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). After two years as Postdoc Fellow with CSIRO Division of Mineral and Process Engineering (90-91), he was with UNSW as Lecturer (92-95), Senior Lecturer (95-97), Associate Professor (98-01), Professor (01-14) and Scientia Professor (07-14). In May 2014, he joined Monash University as Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow, Pro Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash-Southeast University Joint Research Institute (later changed to Monash Suzhou). He has been Inaugural Director of UNSW Centre for Simulation and Modelling of Particulate Systems (01-07), Deputy Director of ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials (08-10), Founding Director of Australia-China Joint Research Centre for Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials (13-15), and ARC Research Hub for Computational Particle Technology (16-). He has received numerous prestigious awards including UNSW Scientia Professorship, ARC Federation Fellowship, NSW Scientist of the Year, and AAS Ian Wark Medal and Lecture. He is a Fellow of Australian Academy of Science (AAS), Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), Royal Society of New South Wales (RSNSW), and Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE).

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Professor Yu is a world-leading scientist in particle/powder technology and process engineering. He has authored/co-authored >900 publications, organised numerous international conferences, attracted ~$75M external funds mainly via various competitive grant schemes (>50 ARC DP/LP/LIEF grants), graduated >30 postdoc fellows, >70 PhD and >20 MEng students, and delivered many plenary/keynote presentations at different international conferences. He is Editor-in-Chief, Handbook of Powder Science and Engineering (2014-), Executive Editor, Powder Technology (2013-) and Particuology (2008-2013), while guest-editing for several journals and on the editorial/advisory boards of about 20 learned journals.

Professor Yu was the Inaugural Director of the UNSW multidisciplinary research centre for simulation and modelling of particulate systems (2000-07), Deputy Director of ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials (2008-10), Founding Director of Australia-China Joint Research Centre for Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials (2013-15) and ARC Industrial Transformation Hub for Computational Particle Technology (2016-). He has also been on the management committee or advisory board of various multidisciplinary research centres at national and university levels, currently chairing the Technical Advisory Committee of Baosteel-Australian Universities Joint R&D Centre (2011-). While working in Suzhou, he has also established the Specialised Research Institute for Process Modelling and Optimisation, sponsored by Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (2016-).

He is a recipient of various prestigious fellowships and awards, including ARC Queen Elizabeth II (1993-97), Australian Professorial (2005-2009) and Federation (2008-12) Fellowships, the Josef Kapitan Ironmaking Award from the Iron and Steel Society, USA (2002), Outstanding Overseas Chinese Scholar Award, China (2003), Ian Wark Medal and Lecture from Australian Academy of Science (2010), ExxonMobil Award from Australian and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineers (2010), NSW Scientist of the Year in the category of engineering, mathematics and computer sciences (2010), Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering (2011), Top 100 Most Influential Engineers in Australia (2011), Postdoctoral Supervisor of the Year Award from UNSW (2012), and listed in Elsevier Most Cited Researchers in Chemical Engineering (2016). He is a Fellow of Australian Academy of Science (AAS), Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), Royal Society of New South Wales (RSNSW), and Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE).

In addition to various roles for different industries, he has served for a number of governmental organisations, e.g. being a Member of the ARC College of Experts (Engineering and Environmental Sciences, 2006-08) and DEST Research Quality Framework (Engineering and Technology, 2007), Panel Member for DIISR International Science Linkage and Endeaviour Scholarships/Fellowships Schemes (2009-2012), and Member, DIISR Research Workforce Strategy - Chemical Sciences Analysis Team (2010). He acted as Honorary Secretary, ATSE NSW Division (2006-2010), and a member of ATSE Assembly/Council in 2008-10; Chair, AAS NSW Region (2013-2014) and Member (and Chair, 2014-15), Sectional Committee – Physical and Engineering Sciences (2013-16). He is President (07-08), Chair of Advisory Board (09-10) and Honorary President (11-), Federation of Chinese Scholars in Australia; a Member, Overseas Expert Advisory Board – Science and Technology, Chinese Government; and a Scientific Advisor to Guanzhou and Beijing Cities.

Major professional involvement

Professor Yu has developed research collaboration with various industrial organisations including Bluescope Steel, BHP-Billiton, Alcoa, Xstrata, BMA, ACARP, Johnsons and Johnsons, Minco Technologies, Cement Australia, Rio Tinto, Weir Minerals and many overseas R&D organizations such as Kawasaki Steel (Japan), China Steel (Taiwan), POSCO (South Korea), Tata Steel (India), BaoSteel, Longking and JITRI (China).

Research areas:

Particle science and technology, process engineering, process metallurgy, chemical engineering, material engineering, modelling and simulation

Research interest:

• Powder/particle technology

• Particle characterisation and data interpretation

• Particle packing characteristics and porosity prediction

• Particle-structure-property relations

• Nanoparticles and application

• Solids flow and segregation

• Fluid flow, heat and mass transfer in packed and fluidised beds

• Processing and handling of bulk/particulate materials

• Simulation of particulate systems

• Interfacial engineering in multiphase processes

• Physical and mathematical modelling of particulate and multiphase processes

• Industrial application