- Education Background
- B.S. in Colour and Polymer Chemistry, University of Leeds, England, 2001-2004
- Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2004-2007
- Postdoc in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2007-2009
- Postdoc in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford, England, 2009-2011
- Lecturer, School of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney, Australia, 2011-2016
- Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, King’s College London, 2017-2023
- Visiting Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, King’s College London, 2023-2024
- Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 2024-onwards.
Thermogalvanic waste heat harvesting
Our research focusses upon applying new electrolytes and materials towards to chemical conversion of waste heat into electricity. Despite heat making up most waste energy, few methods exist to exploit small temperature gradients (like in industry, between the inside and outside of a building, body heat, etc.). Entropy-driven redox chemistry is a simple and potentially sustainable method converting this waste into useful electricity.
Electrochemistry
Electrochemistry is increasingly important and we are interested in its wide range of applications, from batteries through to electrosynthesis through to the next generation of sensors.
Biomass processing
Waste biomass material is a potentially sustainable chemical feedstock, to replace our extreme reliance upon the petrochemical industry for chemicals; we are interested in how novel solvents can be applied to this process.