Group Leader
Prof. Magda Titirici
Chair in Sustainable Energy Material
RAEng Chair in Emerging Sustainable Technologies
m.titirici@imperial.ac.uk
Magda moved to Imperial College in January 2019. She was previously a Professor in Sustainable Materials Chemistry at Queen Mary University of London for four years, where she maintains an active research presence.
Magda started her academic career by completing a PhD from the University of Dortmund in 2005 followed by a Postdoctoral Research position at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces. After one year in this role she became an independent group leader, receiving her Habilitation in 2013 from MPIKG-University of Potsdam.
Group Management
Dr. Sachetan Tuladhar
Lab manager
s.tuladhar02@imperial.ac.uk
Geetanjali Bathina
Valued (Project Grant) Project Manager
g.bathina@imperial.ac.uk
Dr. Jingyu Feng
DIGIBAT Facility manager
j.feng19@imperial.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Zhenyu (Johny) Guo
Postdoctoral Research Associate
z.guo19@imperial.ac.uk
Dr. Emma Antonio
RAEng CiET Research Associate
Lead for commercialisation and characterisation
emma.antonio12@imperial.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Design of Experiments methodology for PET mechanochemistry
enrico.manfredi-haylock15@imperial.ac.uk
Dr. Kalpana Balaskandan
Postdoctoral Research Associate
3D printing thick, low tortuosity carbon electrodes for energy storage applications
k.balaskandan17@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisors: Prof. Ifan Stephens, Prof. Cecilia Mattevi
Dr. Nadia Farag
Postdoctoral Research Associate
High-throughput materials synthesis, cell assembly and electrochemical testing
n.farag@imperial.ac.uk
Dr. Niamh Hartley
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Fundamentals of hard carbon derived from biomass sources for sodium-ion batteries and its impact on the storage mechanism
Email: niamh.hartley@imperial.ac.uk
Dr. Neptun Yousefi
Erwin Schrödinger Research Fellow
Electrochemical cellulose conversion for sustainable materials
n.yousefi@imperial.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Sustainable carbon fibres from lignin
r.hunter@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisor: Dr. Agnieszka Brandt-Talbot
Dr. Rukaya Ibrahim Muazu
Joint Postdoctoral Research Associate
Life cycle sustainability assessment
r.ibrahim-muazu23@imperial.ac.uk
Main supervisor: Prof. Nilay Shah
Co-supervisor: Prof. Jason Hallett
Dr. Shanmuga Priya Karmegam
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Anode-less sodium metal battery
skarmega@ic.ac.uk
Dr. Silvia Escudero Curiel
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Developing sustainable electrocatalysts derived from biomass.
s.escudero-curiel@imperial.ac.uk
Dr. Sushila Marlow
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Automated and High-Throughput Development of Advanced Materials
s.marlow@imperial.ac.uk
Co-Supervisors: Prof. Camille Petit
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Li-ion and Na-ion battery recycling
xiaochu.wei16@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisor: Dr. Anna Hankin
Dr. Yi Gong
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Development of application-oriented cathodes for Li-S batteries and investigation of their failure and safety mechanisms
y.gong24@imperial.ac.uk
Dr. Yuanzhu Zhao
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Anode-less Sodium Metal Battery
yuanzhu.zhao@imperial.ac.uk
Dr. Kamogelo Modisane
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Towards a South African made Sodium-ion battery
K.Modisane24@imperial.ac.uk
Dr. Doyeon Lee
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Electrochemical Upcycling of Nylon into High Value-Added Products
d.lee2@imperial.ac.uk
Dr. Monaly Depala
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Unlocking low-cost industrial waste streams: developing cost effective carbon anodes
m.depala17@imperial.ac.uk
Dr. Sanguk Son
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Electrochemical Upcycling of Nylon into High Value-Added Products
s.son@imperial.ac.uk
Internal Collaborators
Independent Royal Society University Research Fellow
LiSTAR: Lithium sulfur technology accelerator
h.au13@imperial.ac.uk
Hosted ICRF Fellow
FeNC electrocatalysts for fuel cells and carbon dioxide reduction
j.barrio-hermida@imperial.ac.uk
PhD Students
Alex Pitman
Development of HOR in non-aqueous electrolytes
a.pitman25@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisors: Prof. Ifan Stephens
Andrijana Minic
Optimising electrochemical CO2 reduction catalysts for the production of multi-carbon products towards aviation fuels
andrijana.minic21@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisors: Prof. Ifan Stephens
Bhavini Patel
bhavini.patel23@imperial.ac.uk
Main Supervisor: Dr. Heather Au
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Magda Titirici
Craig Burdis
Nitrogenase inspired electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia
c.burdis22@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisors: Prof. Ifan Stephens, Dr Jesús Barrio Hermida
Zhangdi (Jasmine) Xie
Holistic design of smart battery sensors
z.xie24@imperial.ac.uk
Main supervisor: Yunlong Zhao
Co-supervisor: Prof. Magda Titirici
Dingchang Yang
Developing cell and membranes for the separation of PET depolymerisation products
d.yang23@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisors: Dr Qilei Song
Elisa Solvay
Catalyst development for CO2 reduction into value added chemical
Co-supervisor: Dr Jesús Barrio Hermida
Hanzhi Ye
Electrochemical oxidation of glycerol
hanzhi.ye20@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisors: Dr Anna Hankin, Dr. Hui Luo
I-Chuan (Ally) Hsia
Developing lignin-based cathodes for Lithium-sulfur structural batteries
Main Supervisor: Dr. Heather Au
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Magda Titirici
ally.hsia22@imperial.ac.uk
Helen Tyrrell
Single site catalysts for alcohol amination
h.tyrrell21@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisors: Prof. Mimi Hii, Prof. Klaus Hellgardt
Jinjie Zhu
Single-metal catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction
jinjie.zhu19@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisor: Dr. Jesús Barrio
Joe Yang
Further insights on Na storage mechanism in hard carbons: effect of pores and surface chemistry
joe.yang20@imperial.ac.uk
Kanyapat (Kloy) Plub-in
Development of catalysts for glycerol oxidation to coproduce hydrogen and value-added chemicals
Co-supervisors: Dr. Anna Hankin, Prof. Ifan Stephens
Laurence Beauregard
Development of electrolytes for structural lithium-sulfur batteries
l.beauregard24@imperial.ac.uk
Main Supervisor: Dr. Heather Au
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Magda Titirici
Marie-Louis Reich
Towards engineered biomass-derived carbons with enhanced features for their application in post-lithium electrochemical energy storage devices
m.reich24@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisors: Prof. Ifan Stephens, Prof. Mary Ryan
Morven Holland
High throughput discovery of OER electrocatalysts
m.holland23@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisors: Prof. Camille Petit, Prof. Ifan Stephens
Piotr Toka
Machine learning-driven synthesis of next generation carbon dots with tuneable properties
p.toka22@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisors: Prof. Kim Jelfs, Dr. Suela Kellici
Samantha Southern
Carbon fibres based structural Li-S batteries
s.southern21@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisors: Dr. Heather Au, Dr. Rhodri Jervis
Zhou Zhou
Development of sustainable functional interlayers for lithium-sulfur batteries
zhou.zhou24@imperial.ac.uk
Main Supervisor: Dr. Heather Au
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Magda Titirici
Shaohua Li
Electrocatalysts based on covalent organic materials for the carbon dioxide reduction
s.li25@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisor: Dr. Jesús Barrio
Shivam Sharma
Understanding solid electrolyte interface in hard carbons using EC-MS
shivam.sharma@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisors : Prof. Mary Ryan, Prof. Ifan Stephens
Yichen Huang
Hard carbon thick electrodes for sodium-ion batteries
yichen.huang18@imperial.ac.uk
Co-supervisor: Dr. Chun Ann Huang, Dr. Samuel Cooper
Yilang Shan
Si/C composites for Lithium-ion batteries and Si/Hard carbon composites for Sodium-ion batteries
y.shan21@imperial.ac.uk
Yuan Xu
Applying phase change materials to sodium ion batteries
yx1521@ic.ac.uk
Co-supervisor: Dr. Emiliano Bilotti
Yulia Yu
Electrooxidation of glycerol
youli.yu19@imperial.ac.uk
Main supervisor: Dr. Reshma Rao
Co-supervisor: Prof. Magda Titirici
Visiting Researchers
Hui Shi
Al-Graphite Dual-Ion Batteries
Visiting from: Chengdu University, China
hui.shi@imperial.ac.uk
shihuia@foxmail.com
Ntalane Sello Seroka
Leveraging local biomass and minerals resources beneficiation in lithium and sodium ion batteries
Visit from: Post doctoral researcher from Council for Scientific and Industrial research (CSIR), South Africa
n.seroka@imperial.ac.uk
Haodong Xie
Electrochemical oxidation of glycerol
Visiting from: China University of Petroleum-Beijing
H.xie1@imperial.ac.uk
Yabo Qi
Selective electro-oxidation of biomass
Visiting from: Northeast Forestry University
y.qi@imperial.ac.uk
Martina Scaramuzzo
Development of high-performance organic cathodes for sustainable Li-ion and Na-ion Batteries
Visiting from: University of Salento and CNR-NANOTEC Institute of Nanotechnology (Italy)
martina.scaramuzzo26@imperial.ac.uk