
Hongxia Wang is a Professor and Australia Research Council (ARC) Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Her research focuses on developing sustainable approaches for fabricating advanced solar cells and energy storage devices with enhanced performance and longevity. Dr. Wang has published over 220 peer-reviewed scientific articles and two book chapters and is the inventor of four patents in energy materials and applications. She is an elected Fellow of Australian Technological Science and Engineering (FTSE), a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI). Additionally, she serves as a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts (2020–2025). Her achievements have been recognized with multiple awards, including the ‘Solar Energy Journal Best Paper Award for 2016 in Photovoltaics’ (International Solar Energy Society) and ‘the Best Research Paper Award in Manufacturing and Material Science’ (China Association for Science and Technology, 2023). She has also received several prestigious fellowships, such as the ARC Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship (2024), ARC Future Fellowship (2012), ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Industry, APDI, 2007), and QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship (2010).
Speech Title: Sustainable Fabrication of Perovskite Solar Cells