Dr Yansong Shen is a full Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales (Tenured). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering (ATSE) and the Chair of Mineral Resource Forum of ATSE. He is the Director of a five-year ARC Research Hub (A$13M). He obtained his BEng and MEng degrees from Northeastern University (China) and his PhD degree from UNSW. He initiated and is leading the ‘UNSW SCoPE Lab for Green Metals. He published over 280 peer-reviewed papers in top-tier journals, secured 14 ARC and >40 highly competitive research grants from national and international funding agencies, in total over AUD A$130M, established industry engagements in Australia and overseas, and won several honours and highly-competitive national fellowships, e.g. ARC APDI Fellowship (2012) and ARC Future Fellowship (2019). His group designed and scaled up several new technologies, including new low-carbon ironmaking technologies, iron ore and coal/biomass processing and upgrading, and reactor design. Many of them have been patented, implemented and practised in industries with measurable benefits. He was selected as the President of the Australasian Particle Technology Society, the Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, the Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), and the invited/plenary speaker at tens of international conferences.  

Presentation Title: Accelerating Low-Cost Green Ironmaking: Emerging R&D Methods, Progress, and Challenges