Professor Zhiguo Yuan
Centre Director
Advanced Water Management Centre
The University of Queensland
Australia
Biography
Prof Yuan received his PhD degree in aeronautical engineering in 1992 from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. He shifted research direction to wastewater management in 1994, when he took up a postdoctoral research fellow position at Ghent University, Belgium. He joined the Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC) at The University of Queensland in 1998. He served as the AWMC Deputy Director 2001-2014, and is currently the Director. His research focuses on development of innovative solutions for urban water management through effective integration of fundamental science and applied engineering. He has won over $30M in competitive research funding since 2001 including 20 ARC Discovery and Linkage grants as a Chief Investigator. Prof Yuan is an Executive of the $117m Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities and Leader of the Future Technologies Program.
Research Interest
Wastewater treatment, Water treatment, Sewers, Corrosion - sewers, Odour - sewers, Wastewater management
