James Shorthouse, C(P) Eng, MIChemE

Chair

James is a Chartered (Professional) Engineer, Member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), Fellow of Engineers Australia (EA) and a Registered Professional Engineer Queensland.

Jeremy McManus

Secretary

Currently the Petroleum Engineering resource working to develop reserves for infill drilling at Cliff Head Field. In this role Jeremy is managing dynamic modelling construction, history matching and application of Petrel & Eclipse/Intersect models to evaluate subsurface opportunities.

Professor Dr Hui Tong Chua

University of Western Australia representative

Professor Dr Hui Tong Chua, PhD (NUS), M.Eng. (NUS), B.Eng (1st Class Hons, NUS), is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Head of Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Western Australia (UWA). His research interest covers Heat and Mass Transfer, Thermodynamics, Process Engineering and Waste Heat Utilisation. Six of his international peer reviewed journal articles are among the top 1% percentile in the field of Engineering in terms of citation.

Professor Yee Kwong Leong

Committee member

Professor Yee Kwong Leong obtained his Bachelor from the Universiti Sains Malaysia and a PhD from the University of Melbourne in 1989. He has over 140 journal publications and more than 50 refereed conference publications.

Professor Hongqi Sun

Edith Cowan University representative

Dr. Sun became a Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in November 2017. He joined ECU in March 2016 as an Associate Professor through the global campaign of Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellowship. Prior to that he had worked at Curtin University for over seven years, with the position of Research Fellow (Level A, 2009-2012), Curtin Research Fellow (Level B, 2013-2014) and then Senior Research Fellow (Level C, 2015-2016). He has been an Adjunct Professor at Curtin University since 2016.

Olivia Palm

Curtin University Student Representative

Olivia is a metallurgical vacation student at igo Ltd and also President of ACES: Association of Chemical Engineering Students at Curtin University.