Prof. Dr. Ali Kamali
RSC Fellow,
University of Cambridge, Northeastern University
Ali Kamali is a Double-Hundred Distinguished Professor, Director of Energy and Environmental Materials Research Centre (E2MC) and Director of China-UK Joint Research Centre at School of Metallurgy of Northeastern University. He is Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, and advisor to several leading high-tech firms. Before joining NEU, he was a Senior Research Fellow at university of Cambridge, and director of research in academia and commercial sectors in the UK, India and Persia. He has invented sustainable technologies of producing materials such as graphene, nanodiamonds, silicon, advanced organic/metallic compounds and clean hydrogen, among others, some of which have been transfered to commercial operation. His current research mainly focuses on the materials chemistry involved in producing advanced materials and nanostructures either from waste or largely available natural resources to be used in energy storage devices such as metal-ion batteries, or alternatively, for the removal of hazardous chemicals from our environment. He has published more than 160 articles in leading journals including Green Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Carbon, Energy and Environmental Science, Progress in Materials Science, and Applied Energy. He has obtained over 50 patents in various counties including USA, UK, Europe and China, and has received several awards including International Khwarizmi Award, The Rose Award of Shenyang and NSFC Excellent International Scientists Fellowship. He is currently supervising Master and PhD candidates in China and the UK. His laboratory at Northeastern University has also been named a model laboratory for metallurgy.