Hua Kun Liu holds a position of Professorial Fellow and an ARC Professorial Fellowship within ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanostructured Electromaterials. She has been a co-ordinator of the energy materials research group, ISEM, UoW since 1995. Her expertise includes materials processing and characterisation. She has experiences and skills in study of phase relationship, physical property and chemical property analysis, and structure and microstructure determination. She has made contributions to the research fields including the hydrogen storage materials, the rechargeable batteries, PEM fuel cells and high Tc superconductors. Her research Interests are to study the capacity, hydriding and dehydriding kinetics of the hydrogen storage materials, the physical and chemical property analysis, structure and microstructure determination of the nanomaterials, the improvement of the performance of lithium ion rechargeable batteries and fuel cells. The website for the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) is located here.