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Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla is the leader of research into Sustainable Materials as the Director of Sustainable Materials Research & Technology (SMaRT@UNSW) at the University of New South Wales.
Veena's research interests throughout her career have been in sustainability of materials and processes with an emphasis on environmental and community benefits. Through this interest, Veena has invented an environmentally friendly process of recycling plastics and rubber tyres in steelmaking. Veena is an international award winning scientist and engineer who has presented on her research and experiences throughout the world.
She has collaborated with Australian companies and overseas companies/institutions. She has established excellent working relationships and a deep knowledge of industrial processes and issues/problems. She has published in excess of 190 papers in journals and conference proceedings.
In 2005, she received Eureka Prize for Scientific Research. She also received the 2006 Environmental Technology Award from Association of Iron & Steel Technology in the United States for her research into recycling waste plastics in steelmaking. She was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) in 2007.
Veena was born in India. She received BTech, Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India; MASc, Metals and Materials Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada and PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, US.
She is passionate about science and engineering. She encourages young people to consider science and engineering as a career path; and is very active in communicating her ideas to students. She is one of the judges on the ABC TV show, "The New Inventors".
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