On June 26, Professor Moses O. Tadé Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Science & Engineering Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, visited DICP. During this period, Moses O. Tadé visited State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, and had an in-depth exchange with relevant researchers. He also visited our group and gave an academic report entitled “Fuel Cell Technology – Challenges and Opportunities” at 2:00 pm on June 27th.
Professor Moses Tadé received his Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering with first class honours from University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship for his Masters and PhD in Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He was recruited as a Lecturer by The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia immediately after his PhD. He joined Curtin University as a Lecturer and was promoted through the ranks over the years. He became the Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Science & Engineering in December 2014. Professor Tadé was awarded a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University in 2012 for his significant contributions to Chemical Engineering research at the highest level in the field of Process Systems Engineering. He has received substantial funding from both industry and the Australian Research Council (ARC) for his projects. He has successfully supervised over 30 PhD students, several Masters' students and research fellows. He has published 5 books on various aspects of his work as well as over 350 research papers in refereed international journals and conference proceedings with an H-index of 45 with over 7,500 citations (excluding self-citations). He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, a Fellow of IChemE and an Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia. He was listed in the Top 100 Australia’s most Influential Engineers in 2008 and was the Chair of IChemE in Australia in 2012 and 2013. He was the President of the Australian Council of Engineering Deans (in 2015 and 2016) and a member of the ARC College of Experts (from 2014 to 2017) where he chaired the ARC Panel for Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences (MPCE) for the Discovery and DECRA grants in 2016. Professor Tade has been a plenary and keynote speaker at several conferences worldwide. He continues to evolve his leadership and management skills to harness the capabilities of the new generation of leaders.
