Current as of 1/06/2023

Yi-Bing Cheng was a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University until March 2018 and is now an Emeritus Professor of the university. He is currently a research scientist at the Foshan Xianhu Laboratory, Guangdong Province and a part-time Professor of Wuhan University of Technology, China. He specialises in inorganic materials and has worked in a wide range of materials science and engineering projects. He worked for many years in dye sensitised solar cells and perovskite solar cells, and his current research interest is to develop carbon-free fuel, hydrogen and ammonia, combustion technologies for high temperature manufacturing industries. He has over 550 publications, including Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Energy, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, JACS etc. He has been named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics since 2018.

As Professor of Materials Engineering and as Director of China Engagement of the International Office at Monash University, Yi-Bing Cheng has made major contributions to Australia-China cooperation in the field of technological science and engineering. Professor Cheng is a world expert in non-oxide ceramics and composites and has made significant contributions in the areas of ceramic processing, microstructure development, phase characterisation, and applications. He is a Chief Investigator of ceramifiable composites for fire-performance cables in the CRC for Polymers. This award-winning research project has brought significant benefits to both Australian and overseas industries.