Junhua Huang finished her PhD study in 2002 on plastic crystals (interesting solid phases found in some ionic liquids) under the supervision of Professor Doug MacFarlane at Monash University. She then studied biomimetic catalysis as a postdoctoral fellow at CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies. In 2004, she joined CSIRO Energy Technology to research ionic liquids in energy storage devices. She is currently a senior research scientist and project leader of developing ionic liquids for Post Combustion Capture. Her research interests are new materials development in energy area and related physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and organic chemistry.