Qilin Wang#
| Membership Number: | 7173 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | ENGINEERING |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRALIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Qilin.Wang |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Professor, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- 2018 - 2021 Associate Professor & Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- 2017 - 2018 Lecturer, Griffith University, Australia
- 2014 - 2017 Research Fellow & ARC DECRA Fellow, The University of Queensland, Australia
Fields of Scholarship
- Environmental engineering
- Waste management
- Microbial ecology
- Wastewater-based epidemiology
- Emerging contaminents
- Bacterial and microalgae fermentative bioconversions in aerobic and anaerobic systems
- Water and wastewater treatment
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Environmental Engineer Achievement Award
- 2024 Eureka Prize for Environmental Research Finalist
- 2023 Edgeworth David Medal
- 2021 Most Influential Asian-Australians Award — Science & Medicine Category, Winner
- 2020 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Leadership and Development
- 2020 Australia's Most Innovative Engineer (utilities category)
- 2020 Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher
- 2019 NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award
- 2018 MIT Technology Review Innovator
- 2014 German Huber Technology Prize
