Gang Li

Gang (Kevin) Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. He earned his Bachelor's Degree with Honours and Master's degree by research from Tianjin University, followed by a PhD in pressure swing adsorption technologies from Monash University. As an ARC Future Fellow (Level 3), he serves as the principal investigator of the Clean Energy Laboratory and research theme leader of the Australian Centre for LNG Futures. He co-chaired the FOA13 conference in Cairns, Australia, in 2019, and holds memberships in the International Zeolite Association, International Adsorption Society, and American Chemical Society.

Li's research focuses on CO2 capture and reduction, hydrogen production, coal bed methane enrichment, and natural gas processing, with expertise in adsorption and pressure swing adsorption, zeolites, and carbon capture and utilization. He has published over 200 journal articles in leading venues including Nature, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and AIChE Journal, alongside more than 30 patents. Key publications include 'Nitrogen Rejection from Methane via a “Trapdoor” K-ZSM-25 Zeolite' (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021), 'Temperature-regulated Guest Admission and Release in the Metal–Organic Framework Co(CPO-27-NH2)' (2017), and 'Binary Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor on Amine-Modified Zeolite Y' (Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2024). His work, cited over 8,900 times according to Google Scholar, advances clean energy technologies and supports Australia's net-zero transition. Awards include the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2013), Western Australia Innovator of the Year (2015), ExxonMobil Award of Excellence in Chemical Engineering (2019), ATSE David and Valerie Solomon Prize (2020), and FEIT Research Excellence Award (2023).

Professional Email: li.g@unimelb.edu.au