Rate My Professor Guohua Jia

Professor Guohua Jia is a Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the School of Molecular and Life Sciences at Curtin University. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from City University of Hong Kong in 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Peter A. Tanner, followed by a research associate position in the Department of Biology and Chemistry there from 2009 to 2010. From 2010 to 2014, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Prof. Uri Banin’s group at the Institute of Chemistry and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2015, Jia joined Curtin University as a Curtin Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry, advancing to ARC DECRA Fellow from 2016 to 2019, Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow from 2020 to 2021, and Associate Professor from 2021 to present. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI).

Jia’s research focuses on the chemistry and physics of colloidal nanocrystals, particularly their shape-dependent properties and applications in lighting and displays, catalysis, solar energy harvesting, and storage. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals including Nature Materials, ACS Catalysis, Nano Research, and Chemical Society Reviews, accumulating over 7,473 citations with an h-index of 44. Notable publications include “Recent advances in noncontact external-field-assisted photocatalysis: from fundamentals to applications” (ACS Catalysis, 2021), “Graphitic carbon nitride with different dimensionalities for energy and environmental applications” (Nano Research, 2020), “Couples of colloidal semiconductor nanorods formed by self-limited assembly” (Nature Materials, 2014), “Catalytic reduction of nitrogen to produce ammonia by bismuth-based catalysts: state of the art and future prospects” (Materials Horizons, 2020), and “Stable, strongly emitting cesium lead bromide perovskite nanorods with high optical gain enabled by an intermediate monomer reservoir synthetic strategy” (Nano Letters, 2019). His accolades include the ARC Future Fellowship (2021), ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2016), J G Russell Award from the Australian Academy of Science (2016), Curtinnovation Awards (2018), Lady Davis Fellowship (2011), and Curtin Early Career Research Fellowship (2015). Jia holds editorial positions such as Associate Editor of Frontiers in Chemistry, Young Associate Editor of SmartMat, and Editorial Board Member of General Chemistry. He serves on the Standards Australia committee for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and assesses ARC grant proposals.