Sarina Sarina

Dr Sarina is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney, and awarded ARC Future Fellowship for 2023-2027. She received her PhD in 2013 from QUT, which earned a “QUT Outstanding Sarina received her PhD in 2013 from QUT, which earned the "Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award” and was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2014) that allowed her to study in the Max Planck Institute of Colloid and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany). She returned to QUT as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in early 2016, to continue her research specialty in selective synthesis by plasmonic photocatalysis, for which she has received national and international recognition, including ARC DECRA Fellowship (2019-2022). Sarina's research is focusing on metal nanoparticle based catalysis for controllable organic synthesis, covering thermal-, photo-, and electro-catalysis. She has demonstrated her capability and leadership to undertake high quality and innovative research as evidenced by an impressive track record of research publications, awards, and highly competitive grants and fellowships. Sarina’s research generated high quality fundamental outcomes and she is also contributing to deliver transformative real-world research applications by engaging with local industrial partners. Sarina successfully led projects for competitive funding for a total of $2.0 million since 2016, including ARC Discovery Projects in photocatalytic organic synthesis topic (DE190101450, 2019-2022, $413,964 and DP210103357, 2021-2023, $284,000, FT220100732, 2023-2027, $920,000) and industrial funding from Australian companies for nanomaterial and high efficient catalyst. development (Neometals, 2016-2018, $257,000 and Probiotic Australia, 2021-2022, $80,000).