• Yijiao Jiang is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the displine of Mechanical Engineering, and Co-Director of Macquarie Research Centre for Transforming Energy Markets. Her research interests mainly focus on the development of advanced technologies to convert carbon emissions, plastic and biowaste into sustainable fuels and value-added materials. She has secured funding from diverse sources including ARC Industry Transformation Research Hubs with Rio Tinto, Discovery Projects, Linkage Project, DECRA and Future Fellowship, CSIRO, Horticulture Innovation, European Commission, Ento Tech, etc. Currently she is leading a research group with 2 postdocs, 5 PhDs and 6 UG thesis students. Yijiao served as Chair of the MQ Women in Engineering from 2019 to 2024. She is an Associate Editor of ACS Energy and Fuels and Carbon Capture Science and Technology, and an Editorial Advisory Board Member for several renowned journals. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, UK) and a current member of the ARC College of Experts.

Selected Recent Publications

Names underlined are Yijiao's PhDs/postdocs at Macquarie University

* indicates the corresponding author

1. A. Kochubei, A. Marianov, O. Conquest, T. Lu, Y. Liu, C. Stampfl, Y. Jiang*, Improved charge delivery within covalently ligated cobalt phthalocyanine, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 13 (2025) 1874. 
2. Y. Zhao, P. Wu, L. Wang, W. Yang, Z. Wang, C. Stampfl, D. He, Y. Luo, A. Baiker, J. Huang, Y. Jiang*, Influence of different configurations of Pt supported on Al^V-rich ASA on their catalytic performance in chemoselective hydrogenation evaluated by DFT modelling and experimental validation, ACS Catalysis 15 (2025) 13916.
3. J. Li, X. Zhang, X. Liu, X. Liao, J. Huang, Y. Jiang*, Co-upcycling of plastic waste and biowaste via tandem transesterification reactions, JACS Au 4 (2024) 3135.
4. Y. Wu, H. Rabiee, X. Zhao, G. Wang, Y. Jiang*, Insights into electrolyte flooding in flexible gas diffusion electrodes for CO2 electrolysis: from mechanisms to effective mitigation strategies, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 12 (2024) 14206.
5. A. Marianov, A. Kochubei, S. Gu, Y. Jiang*, Charge transfer mechanism in oxygen reduction over Co-porphyins: single-site molecular electrocatalyst to macromolecular framework, ACS Catalysis 12 (2022) 8610.
6. S. Gu, A. Marianov, Y. Jiang*, Covalent grafting of cobalt aminoporphyrin-based electrocatalyst onto carbon nanotubes for excellent activity in CO₂ reduction, Applied Catalysis B-Environment and Energy, 300 (2022) 120750.
7. A. Marianov, A. Kochubei, T. Roman, O. Conquest, C. Stampfl, Y. Jiang*, Resolving deactivation pathways of Co porphyrin-based electrocatalysts for CO₂ reduction in aqueous medium, ACS Catalysis 11 (2021) 3715. 
8. X. Yang, T. Kan, A. Kheradmand, H. Xu, V. Strezov, A. Yu, Y. Jiang*, Tunable syngas production from two-stage sorption-enhanced steam gasification of sewage sludge, Chemical Engineering Journal (2020) 126069.
9. A. Marianov, Y. Jiang*, Covalent ligation of Co molecular catalyst to carbon cloth for efficient electroreduction of CO₂ in water, Applied Catalysis B-Environment and Energy 244 (2019) 881.
10. Y. Zhu, T. Wan, X. Wen, D. Chu, Y. Jiang*, Tunable Type I and II heterojunction of CoO_x nanoparticles confined in in g-C₃N₄ nanotubes for photocatalytic hydrogen production, Applied Catalysis B-Environment and Energy 244 (2019) 814. 

• Catalysis engineering, Electrochemical energy converson,  Photochemical process, In situ nanoscale characterisation
• Carbon dioxide reduction, Waste plastics upcycling, Biosolid utilsation, Hydrogen production, Green chemical processes, Solar fuels, Nitrogen fixation

• MECH3002 Heat and Mass Transfer, Undergraduate Couse Convenor
• MECH6002 Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer Applications, Postgraduate Couse Convenor
• MECH8204 Advanced Engineering Materials, Postgraduate Couse Convenor

Yijiao has supervised to completion 22 HDRs and 64 Engineering thesis students. 

Current Group Member (Primary Supervision)

Dr Yuming Wu, Postdoc (PhD from UQ) 

Dr Yue Jiang, Postdoc (PhD from UNSW)

Mr. Yusheng Li, PhD candidate (MEng from MQ, BSc from Beijing Uni of Chem Tech)

Mr. Guohao Li, PhD candidate (MEng from CAS, BEng from Harbin Institute Tech)

Miss. Mengxin Liu, PhD candidate (MEng from MQ and Masters from NUS, BSc from Jilin Uni)

Mr. Youyuan Guo, PhD candidate (MSc from Wuhan Uni)

Miss Piumi Nishshanka, MRes+PhD (BSc from Uva Wellassa Uni, Sri Lanka)

Miss Ruoqi Zhang, MRes+PhD (BSc from East China Uni of Sci. Techn.)

Past Supervision

Postdocs: Zichun Wang (ARC DECRA, 2019-2021),  Jiaquan Li (2023), Aleksei Marianov (2020-2022)

PhD: Xiuping Liao (2025), Alena Kochubei (2024), Permsak Chairat (2024), Amanj Kheradmand (2023), Yutong Zhao (2022), Shengshen Gu (2021), Wenwen Zhang (2021, Vice-Chancellor's Commendation), Haimei Xu (2020), Xiaoxia Yang (2020), Aleksei Marianov (2019), Yuxiang Zhu (2018), Dedong He (2017), Cameron Fletcher (2017), Fenglong Wang (2016), Minsu Jung (2015), Zichun Wang (2015)

MRes: Mengxin Liu (2025), Wending Gu (2023), Zhiwei Shen (2022), Harry O'Donnell (2021), Alena Kochubei (2020, Executive Dean's Commendation for Academic Excellence), Amanj Kheradmand (HD, 2018), Simone Brennan (2015)