Liming Dai joined University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2019 as an Australian Laureate Fellow (ARC), Scientia Professor and SHARP Professor at UNSW. He is also Director of the Australian Carbon Materials Centre (A-CMC) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation. His expertise covers the synthesis, functionalization, and device fabrication of conjugated polymers and carbon nanomaterials for energy-related and biomedical applications. Among his many pioneering scientific achievements, he is widely recognised as a pioneer and leading scientist in the research and development of carbon-based metal-free electrocatalysts for renewable energy technologies.
Prof. Dai has published more than 600 refereed papers with citations over 120,000 and an H-index of 172, and holds about 20 issued patents. He has also published a research monograph on intelligent macromolecules and 5 edited/co-edited books on carbon nanomaterials for advanced energy systems, environmental and biomedical applications, including a recent 2-volume edited book on Carbon-based Metal-free Catalysts by Wiley-VCH. He is a "Highly Cited Researchers" (Materials Science, Chemistry). Among his many awards and recognitions, he received the IUMRS-Somiya Award from the International Union of Materials Research Societies (2019), NASA-Langley Henry J.E. Reid Award (2018), Advanced Materials Hall of Fame (2018). He serves as an Associate Editor of Nano Energy, the Special Chief Editor for Energy Materials of Frontiers in Materials, and Advisory Committee Member of the American Carbon Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (USA), Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, and Member of the Academia Europaea.