Professor Andrew Harris

Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Sustainable Technology
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
The University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Tel: +61 2 9351 2926
Fax: +61 2 9351 2854
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The Laboratory for Sustainable Technology

Education

• PhD (Chemical Engineering), Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, 2001.
• BE (Chemical Engineering, with 1st Class Honours and PC Brooks Medal), University of Queensland, 1996.
• BSc (Chemistry, Environmental Science), University of Queensland, 1994.

Professional activities / Membership of societies

• Chartered Engineer, CEng (UK), CPEng (Aust)
• Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, FIChemE
• Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, FIEAust

Reserch Interests

Andrew is interested in developing cutting edge technologies to assist with the transition to sustainability. He joined the University of Sydney at the start of 2004 from Cambridge University in the UK where he worked for almost six years in the Department of Chemical Engineering. His research typically occurs at the interface between established scientific disciplines, i.e. chemistry, physics, biology, engineering and materials science. Because of this in his work Andrew adopt’s a multi-scale, multi-disciplinary approach which enables him and his colleagues to bring a wide range of skills to bear on pressing environmental and sustainable development problems. In 2006 Andrew received the Shedden Uhde Medal and Prize as the leading early career chemical engineer in Australia and New Zealand.