The Australia-China Centre for Air Quality Science and Management is hosted by three offices, the:
- Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane, Australia;
- Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences in Beijing, China;
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, in Hong Kong, China.
中国–澳大利亚空气质量科学与管理中心有三个办公室，分别为：
- 昆士兰科技大学，布里斯班，澳大利亚
- 中国环境科学研究院，北京，中国
- 香港科技大学，香港，中国
News 新闻
12 August 2025
The ACC-AQSM Annual Meeting 2025 will be held 27–30 November 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand, hosted by the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, and Jinan University. For more information.
12 August 2025
In 2025, the ACC-AQSM welcomed five new member universities.
From Australia: Monash University, the University of Tasmania and Deakin University.
From Hong Kong, China: Hong Kong Baptist University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Please see the information on our new members here.
23 July 2025
Prof. Zoran Ristovski’s Visit & ACC-AQSM Annual Meeting Preparations. For more information.
7 November 2024
Professor Lidia Morawska receives Planetary Health Award in Monaco. For more information.
31 October 2024
The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Australia-China Centre for Air Quality Science and Management was Hosted by the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences. For more information.
29 August 2023
A paper was published by One Earth on 18 August 2023 titled, A synergistic ozone-climate control to address emerging ozone pollution challenges. Members of our Centre were involved in this.
5 December 2021
Happy 7th birthday ACC-AQSM! Our Centre was lunched on the 5 December 2014!
3 December 2021
A very interesting even took place on Thursday, 2 December, the 7th Annual Conference of the ACC-AQSM! A big thank you to the CRAES and JNU teams for organizing such an amazing event! The recordings and slides to the presentations will be made available to Centre Members next week. Below, a group photo taken during the Annual Conference. For more information
29 November 2021
The program for the 7th Annual Conference of the ACC-AQSM to be held online through ZOOM on the 2nd December 2021, is ready. We are very excited about the interesting program and the opportunity to discuss these topics further. To view the Program
8 November 2021
The 7th Annual Conference of the ACC-AQSM will be held online through ZOOM on the 2nd December 2021, and hosted by the CRAES and the Jinan University. Please reserve these dates!
18 October 2021
For information, a video on Ventilation to combat airborne infection spread has been published in Mandarin.
16 September 2021
Many congratulations to Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska, who has been nominated by TIME magazine as one of the most 100 influential people of 2021!
20 June 2021
Another paper success story by ACC-AQSM colleagues titled, The state of science on severe air pollution episodes: quantitative and qualitative analysis, addressing Big Question 3 has been published by Environment International!
14 May 2021
A paper was published by Science today titled, A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection. Members of our Centre were involved in this. It is being covered by some of the major media outlets around the world and in Australia.
7 April 2021
The Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand (CASANZ) is hosting the 25th International Clean Air and Environment Conference, ‘Air Quality in Unprecedented times” to be held online from the 17-21 May 2021. The conference will focus on recent global trends such as bushfire disasters, prolonged droughts, the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of the changing climate, and what they mean for long term strategies for Air Quality management. For more information and if you would like to participate, please see the links below. Program| Registration| Meet the speakers
26 November 2020
A very successful 6th Annual Meeting of the ACC-AQSM took place this week – the Centre’s first virtual Annual Meeting! On Day 1, there was a total of 11 presentations and over 180 participants at the peak time. On Day 2, there was a total of 12 presentations and 123 participants at the peak time. A big thanks to Professor Boguang Wang, Professor Hao Wang, and their team at the Jinan University for organising such a wonderful meeting of our Centre!
To View the Final Program
20 November 2020
The 6th Annual Conference of the ACC-AQSM will be held online through ZOOM on the 24-26 November 2020, and hosted by Jinan University, Guangzhou. To View the Program
20 November 2020
Another paper success story by ACC-AQSM colleagues titled The quest for improved air quality may push China to continue its CO2 reduction beyond the Paris Commitment. This is an important paper which addressed Biq Questions 1 and 7.
31 August 2020
Another paper success story by ACC-AQSM colleagues. A paper titled, “COVID-19 patients in earlier stages exhaled millions of SARS-CoV-2 per hour” (ciaa1283, 2020), by Jianxin Ma, Xiao Qi, Haoxuan Chen, Xinyue Li, Zheng Zhang, Haibin Wang, Lingli Sun, Lu Zhang, Jiazhen Guo, Lidia Morawska, Sergey A. Grinshpun, Pratim Biswas, Richard C. Flagan, Maosheng Yao, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. To view this paper
5 August 2020
The 6th Annual Conference of the ACC-AQSM will be held online through ZOOM on the 24-26th November 2020, and hosted by Jinan University, Guangzhou. Please reserve these dates! Three themes have been proposed for this meeting. Each theme will be a three-hour session conducted over three consecutive days. Each session will include the key presentations (15 mins) and 5-10 short presentations (10 mins). The rest will be devoted to discussion.
| Theme 1 (24 November 2020, Tuesday): | Achievements of Air Pollution Prevention and Control Actions during the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period in China |
| Theme 2 (25 November 2020, Wednesday): | Existing and possible applications of low-cost air quality monitoring sensors in “The Belt and Road Initiative” countries |
| Theme 3 (26 November 2020, Thursday): | Airborne transmission of the virus: What we’ve known and how we can do |
4 August 2020
Another paper success story by ACC-AQSM colleagues. A paper titled, “Heterogeneous SO2 Oxidation in Sulfate Formation by Photolysis of Particulate Nitrate” (6(20: 86-91, 2019), by Masao Gen, Ruifeng Zhang, Dan Dan Huang, Yongjie Li and Chak K. Chan, published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, has been selected as one of the Best 5 papers in EST Letters in 2019. For more information, please see the ES&T Letters announcement. To view this paper.
27 July 2020
A title page of the Environmental Science and Technology journal, features work by members of the ACC-AQSM conducted as part of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scholar grant awarded in 2017-2018, to Dr Svetlana Stevanovic and Dr. Lina Wang. Please see the 3rd image in the carousel on the journal website. The title of the publication featured: Assessing the Effect of Reactive Oxygen Species and Volatile Organic Compound Profiles Coming from Certain Types of Chinese Cooking on the Toxicity of Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells. Many congratulations to the authors and co-authors of the paper!
16 April 2020
A Perspective that has just been published and co-authored by members of ACC-AQSM: Morawska L and Cao J,. Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2: the world should face the reality (Volume 139, June 2020, 105730 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105730). Congratulations to the authors of the paper!
3 February 2020
Our Science of the Total Environment Special Issue paper titled ‘A review of biomass burning: Emissions and impacts on air quality, health and climate in China’ is among the top cited and downloaded papers with a total of 119 citations and 8,390 downloads in the year 2019 (197 lifetime citations and 28,983 lifetime downloads)! Many congratulations to the authors and co-authors of the paper!