Nicky Eshtiaghi

Honours and awards:

2023 - Media Stars, STEM Top Perfomer

2021 - STEM Research Team Award: WETT Research Centre

2021 - IChemE Morton Medal, UK
2020 - Australia's Most Innovative Engineer, Engineers Australia
2019 - RMIT Research Excellence Award- Enterprise
2018 - Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK), The HEA Fellowship provides international recognition of experience and expertise in teaching.
Citation for outstanding contribution to students learning- Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT)
2018 - Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK)
2017 - Citation for outstanding contribution to students learning - Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT)
2017 - Caltex Teaching Award, Engineers Australia Awards of Excellence in outstanding achievements in teaching chemical engineers
2017 - Future Women’s Leaders Conference Awards 2015 - Victorian Professional Engineer of the Year 2015 - IChemE Journals Best Reviewer Awards
2015 - RMIT Health, Safety and Well-being awards for the best solution to a health and safety risk (Team Award)
2014 - RMIT University Teaching Excellence Award – Early Career Academic, Higher Education
2014 - ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions medal of excellence in Chemical Engineering
2014 - The Ian Potter Foundation Travel Award
2013 - RMIT University Research Excellence (Team Award for Water, Effective Technologies and Tools (WETT) team)
2013 - The Research Media Star of the Year award (Team award for liquid metal marbles team)
2013 - Shortlisted for L’Oréal Australia and New Zealand Woman Fellowship in Science (34 applicants shortlisted out of 230 applications)
2013 - RMIT ECR International Travel award
2012 - The best poster award for “ Studies on unmixed regions in a mechanically agitated anaerobic digester” Chemeca 2012, Wellington, New Zealand
2012 - The best poster award for “Effect of baffles on solid-liquid mass transfer coefficient in high solid concentration mixing”, Chemeca 2012, Wellington, New Zealand
2010 - RMIT Emerging Researcher Industry Award
2010 - Monash University Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Early Career Alumni of the Year award
2006 - Awarded Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) and Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS), and top up scholarship
2003 - Awarded the best paper prize among 75 papers in relation to the technical contents and clarity of oral presentation, The 1st National Hydro Power Plant Conference, Iran
1997 - Awarded Amirkabir University of Technology Distinguished Alumni of the Year, Iran
1996 - Awarded Behran Oil Co.the best apprentice of the Year, Iran

Contribution to profession-
Editorial Board: Chemical Engineering research and Design
Reviewer for competitive research funding: Australian Research Council, Kazakhstan (the Nazarbayev University Research Council), Chilean National Science and Technology Commission (FONDECYT- CHILE), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Reviewer for over 30 international scientific journals: Example includes: Water Research, Bioresource Technology, Waste Management, Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Environmental Science, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Biomass and bio energy, Desalination and Water Treatment (DWT), The Education for Chemical Engineers, Studies in Higher Education, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Renewable Energy, The European Physical Journal E-Soft Matter & Biological Physics Studies
Conference organization: An organizing and scientific committee member of Australian Colloide and interface Science (ACIS 2019: 3-7 Feb., Hobart, Australia), RACI 2017 Centenary Congress: Chemeca (July 2017, Melbourne, Australia), 15th Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress, July 2015, Melbourne, Australia), 6th Pacific Rim Rheology Conference (July 2014, Melbourne, Australia)
Thesis reviewer: Curtin University, Monash University, University of Melbourne, Cape Town university Cape Peninsula University of Technology (South Africa)
Society participation includes: Australian Society of Rheology (Vice-president, since 2018), The Chair (2017) and co-founder of RMIT Woman Researchers’ Network (since 2013), The executive committee member of Woman Attaining Leadership Program (Since 2018), The chair of the Victorian Chemical Engineers committee which is a group that works on behalf of the Victorian group of the Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and the Victorian Branch of the College of Chemical Engineers (Engineers Australia) and a member of Engineers Australia learned society advisory Committee (2014-2016); Chemical College Board member, Engineers Australia (2016 on ward)

Media Interview
University develops rapid method to remove microplastics - ABC News

Industry Experience:
Collaborators-
LIST (Luxembourg), Environmental Research and Innovation Department (ERIN)
SCION (New Zealand), a Crown Research Institute dedicated to improving the international competitiveness of the New Zealand forest industry and building a stronger biobased economy, New Zealand
Melbourne Water Corporation (Melbourne), a company owned by the Victorian Government, manages Melbourne’s major sewerage infrastructure and treats about 40% of Melbourne sewage (about 330 million liters a day), Australia
South East Water (Melbourne), a company owned by the Victorian Government, providing water and sewerage services to over 600,000 customers in the South Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Australia
Auckland University (New Zealand): Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
Tongji University (China): College of Environemental Science and Engineering
University of Newcastle (Australia): Chemical Engineering
University of Queensland (Australia): Chemical Engineering

Industry Experience:
Employment history-
Third year coordinator, School of Civil Chemical, and Environmetal and Chemical Engineering, RMIT
RMIT teaching peer-reviewer and teaching award asessor