Rate My Professor Yijiao Jiang

Professor Yijiao Jiang is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the School of Engineering at Macquarie University, serving as Co-Director of the Macquarie Research Centre for Transforming Energy Markets. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), she has been a member of the ARC College of Experts since 2021. Her career at Macquarie includes Associate Professor from 2020 to 2023 and Senior Lecturer from 2014 to 2019. Previously, she was an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award holder at the University of New South Wales and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2012 to 2014, Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow at UNSW from 2010 to 2011, and postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich from 2008 to 2010. She obtained her PhD in Chemical Technology from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and BEng and MEng in Environmental Engineering from Kunming University of Science and Technology, China.

Jiang's research focuses on heterogeneous catalysis, photo/electrocatalysis, CO2 conversion, solid waste resource utilization, and in-situ characterization. She has led multiple ARC grants as Chief Investigator, including Discovery Projects for 2025-2027, 2024-2026, 2023-2025, and 2019-2021, Linkage Projects, and contributions to ARC Research Hubs. Awards include the 2023 Outstanding HDR Supervision Award, 2017 Monash Engineering Women Leadership Award, and 2013 Young Scientist Award from the Asia-Pacific Congress on Catalysis. She serves as Associate Editor of ACS Energy & Fuels, with editorial board roles at ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering and Carbon Capture Science and Technology. As guest editor, she has overseen special issues in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, and Catalysis Today. From 2019 to 2024, she chaired Macquarie University Women in Engineering and organized symposia such as the International Symposium on Catalysis for Transformation of Carbon Dioxide at the 256th ACS National Meeting in 2018. Key publications encompass 'Acidity enhancement through synergy of penta- and tetra-coordinated aluminum sites' (Nature Communications, 2020), 'Sensitization of Pt/TiO2 using plasmonic Au nanoparticles for hydrogen evolution using solar energy' (Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2017), 'Analysis of the Promoted Activity and Molecular Mechanism of Unsupported Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts for CO Oxidation' (ACS Catalysis, 2015), 'Boosting the Formation of Brønsted Acids on Flame-made WO3/ZrO2 Catalysts for Glucose Conversion' (ChemSusChem, 2025), and 'Reactive CO2 capture electrolysis at low voltage and high selectivity' (2026). Her scholarship exceeds 7,800 citations.