Associate ProfessorJingliang Li

I was selected to the ARC College of Expert (CoE) in 2023 and started my membership from 2024 with a three-year contract initially and renewed for another two years to the end of 2028. My roles include (1) assess, score, and rank funding proposals submitted under the National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP), identify research excellence. (2) assign external assessors to specific projects, moderate external assessments, and provide final funding recommendations to the ARC. (3) help the ARC recruit new detailed assessors and mentor new members on grant assessment process. (4) provide advice for peer review reforms and provide strategic advice to the ARC on emerging disciplines and cross-disciplinary developments.

I was guest editor for a special issue "Dynamics of Gels and Its Applications" for the journal Gels (Q1). This issue published 11 high quality research articles in the fields. I also served as guest editor for a special issue "Thermal Insulating and Fire-Resistant Polymer Composites" for the journal Polymers (Q1). This issue published 12 high quality articles.

In the last ten years, I reviewed many grant applications for the ARC (not as a CoE member) from different schemes including Discovery project, Future Fellowship, LIEF and Linkage Projects. I have also been invited to review grant applications by the NSE Research Council of Canada and the Israel Science Foundation (ISF).

In the past ten years, reviewed more than 70 manuscripts for a wide range of journals including many high impact journals such as Nature Nanotechnology, JACS, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Small, Biomaterials, ACS Sensors, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Science, Carbon, Chemical Engineering Journal, Chemistry-a European Journal, Composites Part B, ACS Applied Materials and Interface, and Advanced Materials Interface. Prior to this period, from 2011 to 2015, reviewed 35 manuscripts for many journals such as Chemical Communications, Soft Matter, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, and Journal of Chemistry.

This news reports the step-freezing method to fabricate a type of silk scaffolds that promote wound healing, developed in my group. The outcome has been published in a high impact journal also (ACS Nano, 2018, 12, 5780−5790).

(1) I have been HDR coordinator since 2022. Initially, as viva chair for oral examinations. I together with Assoc. Prof. Maryam chaired the oral examinations for the whole IFM for about one year before other coordinator members joined. After then, I chaired examinations through the whole process from thesis submission to the final oral examination. The total number of examinations I chaired has been more than 60. In addition, I have chaired Confirmation of Candidature (CoC) for18 students and examined the annual reports of many students. I was also chair of a Progress Support Panel for a student with difficulties to meet the Confirmation of Candidature (CoC) requirements. (2) In the non-HDR coordinator role, I have been CoC panel members (internal or external examiners) for about 30 IFM HDR students and external panel members for 3 LES HDR students. (3) I was also an independent chair of an oral examination for a PhD student from the Coventry University (joint student with Faculty of Health and Life Science) as the faculty could not find someone with relevant experience and it was outside of office hours.

I received this award during the Global Graphene Conference 2019 held in Sweden.

I served as an independent chair of an oral examination for a PhD student from the Coventry University (joint student with Faculty of Health and Life Science) as the faculty could not find someone with relevant experience. The examination took 2 hours from 17:30-19:30 pm on 21/05/2024.

I have been the external member (Deakin side) for the progress review and discussion of three India-Deakin joint PhD students (organised by India partners).

I have been invited to examine 11 HDR thesis from Australian universities including Curtin University, RMIT, University of Southern Queensland, and Swinburne University of Technology, as well as two theses from overseas universities (Auckland University and Anna University (India)).

Since 2016, I have been invited to give 13 keynote and plenary talks, with partial or full support from the conference organisers, at various international conferences. I also served as session chairs for some of them. They are listed below. • The 8th China International Biomaterials Conference (BIO-CHINA 2025), April 26-28, 2025 (keynote speaker, free registration). • International Conference on Nanomaterial and Atomaterial Science and Applications (ICNASA), Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 26-29, 2024 (keynote speaker, free registration). • The 10th International Silk Conference, Suzhou, China, Dec. 9-11, 2022 (Keynote speaker, free registration) • International Conference on Nanomaterial and Atomaterials Sciences and Applications, Melbourne, Jan. 31-Feb. 03, 2020 (Keynote speaker and session chair). • International Symposium on Antibiotic Resistance and Drug Development. Online conference, 2020 (Keynote speaker). • International Conference on Catalysis Science and Chemical Engineering: Melbourne, 2019 (Keynote speaker, free registration). • Global Graphene Conference: Sweden, 2019 (Award Lecture and session chair). • Graphene + conference, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, Oct. 08, 2018 (Invited speaker). • 2nd International Conference in Materials Engineering and Manufacturing, Xian China, May 26-28, 2018 (Plenary speaker and session chair). • Biomaterials Conference, Oct. 27-30, 2017, Nanchang, China. (Keynote speaker and session Chair, free accommodation). • Soft Matter Forum: mesoscale assembly, bioinspired materials, flexible devices. Nov. 2-3, 2017, Xiamen, China. (Keynote speaker and session chair, free registration and accommodation). • International conference on industrial fibers and textiles, Nov. 16-19, 2017, Zhengzhou, China (Keynote speaker and session chair, full support from organizer: return airfare, registration and accommodation). • Soft Matter Forum: from Mesoscale assembly to Smart Fabrication, 2016, Xiamen, China (keynote speaker, free registration and accommodation).