Dr Chen was awarded a PhD in Chemistry in 2014 from the University of Western Australia (UWA) followed by a postdoctoral experience in the Centre for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Flinders University with Prof Colin L. Raston AO. From 2015, he worked as a Research Fellow with Prof Rodney S. Ruoff in the Institute of Basic Science (IBS) Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM) at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). Upon the receipt of ARC DECRA, he joined the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2017, establishing a research group working on ‘artificial materials’ through developing new synthesis strategies and applications of materials. In 2021, Dr Chen was appointed as a Lecturer in the School of Environmental and Life Sciences at the University of Newcastle. He is currently a Senior Lecturer. 

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: Carbon materials for energy applications

Research Project: Developing new diamond synthesis methods

Research Interest: fullerenes, graphene, thin film transfer

Research Interest: fullerenes, graphene, two-dimensional materials

Research Interest: Shock reactions, electrochemistry

Research Interest: Chemical Vapour Deposition

Research Interest: MOFs for CO2 capture