Dr Chen received both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology. He was awarded a PhD in Chemistry in 2014 from the University of Western Australia (UWA) followed by a postdoctoral experience at Flinders University with Prof Colin L. Raston AO. From 2015, he worked as a Research Fellow with Prof Rodney S. Ruoff at the Institute of Basic Science (IBS) Center for Multi-dimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM) at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). Upon receiving the ARC DECRA fellowship, he joined the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2017, working with Prof. Chuan Zhao while establishing his research group focusing on 'artificial materials' through developing new synthesis strategies and exploring applications of materials. In 2021, Dr Chen joined the School of Environmental and Life Sciences at the University of Newcastle. 

Research Project: Highly porous materials for CO2 capture and conversion

Chengyi completed his Bachelor's degree in a joint program between Beijing University of Chemical Technology and the University of Birmingham, where he cultivated a strong foundation in the field of nanomaterials and electrochemistry. Pursuing his Master's at Imperial College London, he developed a keen interest in the synthesis of carbon nanomaterials ('buckypaper'), along with their related applications in in-situ characterisation, particularly in EPR-electrochemistry. 

Research Project: Fullerene-based artificial carbon materials

Sadeepa completed his Bachelor's degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, where he performed modeling the effect of the surface topology of the electrodes on the EDL capacitance. Then he pursued a Master's degree at the same university, working on synthesizing graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (RGO) for supercapacitor applications and investigating the structure, property, and performance relationship of GO and RGO through physical and electrochemical characterizations.

Research Project: Diamond synthesis

Research Project: Spectroscopic investigation of quantum optical emitters in diamane.

Research Project: Carbon materials for energy applications

Research Project: Functional properties of novel 1D heterostructured materials.

Research Project: Developing new diamond synthesis methods

Research Interest: fullerenes, thin film transfer

Research Interest: fullerenes, graphene, two-dimensional materials

Research Interest: MOFs for CO2 capture

Graphene-based membrane for water filtration and separation (2022)

Metal-catalysed formation of atomically-thin carbon films (2020)

Microwave shock exfoliation of graphene fluoride for potassium-ion batteries (2019)