Dr. Zhikao Li

Dr. Zhikao Li

Senior Lecturer and ARC Industry Early Career Fellow
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Room 249, Building 82, 20 Research Way, Monash University - Clayton Campus

Dr. Zhikao Li is a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Monash University and leads the advanced separation technology group.

Qualifications

  • B.S., Dalian University of Technology, 2009
  • M.S., King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2011
  • Ph.D., The University of Western Australia, 2018

Expertise

Membrane materials development and process optimization
Adsorption materials development and process optimization
Physics-informed machine learning

Research Interests

Membrane and adsorption technologies for water treatment and gas processing.

Physics-informed machine learning: its application in process modelling and process control.

Supervision

PHD

Meng Tang
Advanced membrane development of oil/water and organic solvent separation
2020

Ming Yong
Lithium extraction from Salt Lake brine
2021

Liangliang Sun
Adsorption/Membrane simulation
2022

Teaching Commitments

  • CHE5110/6110 - Advanced Thermodynamics
  • CHE5883/6883 - Nanostructured membranes for separation and energy production
Last modified: 25/05/2026