Professor Anthony Kucernak


Research Staff

  • Jack Dawson

    Jack Dawson

    Personal details

    Jack Dawson Research Technician in Fuel Cells

    Research themes

    - High Surface Area Carbon Materials
    - Non-precious Electrocatalysts
    - Hybrid Redox Flow Batteries

    Location

    Molecular Sciences Research Hub
    White City Campus

  • Mengjun Gong

    Research Assistant: Mengjun Gong

    Personal details

    Mengjun Gong Research Assistant

    Research themes

    - Li-S Batteries
    - Non-precious Electrocatalysts
    - (PEM) Fuel Cells

    Location

    Molecular Sciences Research Hub
    White City Campus

  • Xiaoqian (Lyra) Lin

    Research Associate: Xiaoqian (Lyra) Lin

    Personal details

    Xiaoqian (Lyra) Lin Research Associate

    Research themes

    - Electrochemical Detection of Peroxide
    - Floating Electrode System

    Location

    Molecular Sciences Research Hub
    White City Campus


PhD Students

Christopher Cannon

Chris Cannon

Christopher Cannon
Organic-Hydrogen Hybrid Redox Flow Batteries

YuChen Sun

YuChen Sun

YuChen Sun
High Performance Hydrogen-Manganese Hybrid Redox Flow Battery

Karl-Ander Kasuk

Karl-Ander Kasuk
(External: University of Tartu) Alkaline Floating Electrode System

Michalis Metaxas

MRes student Michalis Metaxas

Michalis Metaxas
Electrochemical Upgrading of Pyrolysis Oil

Tingting Mo

MSci student Tingting Mo

Tingting Mo
Mitigating Hydrogen Peroxide Formation in PEM Fuel Cells & Electrolysers


Project Students

Yunchu Sun

MSci student Yunchu Sun

Yunchu Sun
MSci: Degradation of Non-precious Electrocatalysts in PEMFC Cathode

Nita Srinivasan

MSci student Nita Srinivasan

Nita Srinivasan
MSci: Fluorine-doped Tin Oxide as a Catalytic Support for IrOx in Electrolysers

Chenrui Zhu

MSci student Chenrui Zhu

Chenrui Zhu
MSci: Single Atom Electrocatalysts for Nitrate & Nitrite Reduction

Haiyi Wang

MSci student Haiyi Wang

Haiyi Wang
MSci: Kinetics of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction with Ultra-low Catalyst Loading

Project Students (MRes)

Fidaus Abubakar

MRes student Fidaus Abubakar

Fidaus Abubakar
MRes: Electrocatalytic Fixing of CO2 into Polymers (Co-sup: Prof. G. Britovsek)

Jiazheng Lu

MRes student Jiazheng Lu

Jiazheng Lu
MRes: Carbon-based Catalysts for Olefin Expoxidation (Co-sup: Prof. G. Britovsek)

Yangzhe Xu

MRes student Yangzhe Xu

Yangzhe Xu
MRes: Advanced Electrodes for Hydrogen-Manganese Redox Flow Batteries


Former Group Members

Research Associates:

- Dr Colleen Jackson 2018-2023
    (Now at Johnson Matthey, UK)
- Dr Andrés Parra Puerto 2016-2022
    (Now at the University of Alicante, ES)
- Dr Asad Mehmood 2018-2021
    (Now at BAM, Berlin, DE)
- Dr Guohui Zhang 2017-2021
    (Now at DICP, Dalian, CN)
- Dr Javier Rubio Garcia 2014-2020
    (Now at the University of Cambridge, UK)
- Dr Daniel Malko 2016-2018
    (Now at BASF, DE)
- Dr Kieran Fahy 2014-2018
    (Now at Cummins Inc, CA)
- Dr Matthew Markiewicz 2011-2017
    (Now at Ballard Power Systems, Vancouver, CA)
- Dr Jacek Lapinski 2013-2017
    (Now at Bramble Energy, Crawley, UK)
- Dr Tiziana Denaro 2016-2017
    (Now at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
- Dr Christos Kalyvas 2010-2015
    (Now at the University of Hertfordshire, UK)
- Dr Thiago Lopes 2012-2014
    (Now at the University of Sao Paolo, BR)
- Dr Biraj Kumar Kakati 2012-2014
    (Now at Tezpur University, IN)
- Dr Venkat Narayanan 2012-2014
- Dr Manos Simianakis 2011-2013
- Dr Mayur Mistry 2011-2013
- Dr Denis Kramer 2010-2011
- Dr Fabrice Bidault 2010-2011

Research Technicians:

- Martin Kaiser 2016-2018

Visiting Researchers:

- Jens Eller [PSI] 2018
- Rakel Wreland Lindström [KTH] 2017
- Hiroshi Idenm [Nissan] 2011-2013
- Eishiro Toyoda [Toyota] 2007-2008

PhD Students

- Dr Xiaoqian (Lyra) Lin 2017-2023
- Dr Jun Wu 2017-2022
- Dr Ben Simon 2018-2022
- Dr Muhang Xiao 2017-2022
- Mark Clapp 2021-2022
- Maxime Bedouet 2014-2019
- Dr Daniel Malko 2013-2016
- Dr Graham Smith 2012-2015
- Dr Chris Zalits 2011-2013
- Dr Ehsan Ahmad 2008-2013*
- Honglin Xu 2010-2013*
- Cynthia Attingre 2009-2012
- Dr Nico Cousens 2009-2012
- Dr Chris Zalits 2008-2011
- Dr Fabrice Bidault 2010-2011
- Dr Alice Sleightholme 2003-2007
- Dr Gregory Offer 2003-2006
- Dr Patrick Hayes 2001-2006
- Dr Sameera Darr 1996-2006
- Dr Alan Palmer 1997-2004
- Dr Nikos Vasileiadis 1999-2004
- Dr Clare Green 1988-2002
- Dr Carlos Mongay-Batalla 1997-2003
- Dr Richard Brown 1997-2001
- Dr Alec Thompson 1997-2001

* indicates a jointly supervised student

Project Students

- Junxi Liu* [MRes] 2022-2022
- Michalis Metaxas [MRes] 2022-2023
- Haoyu Zhang [MRes] 2022-2023
- Xinyi Wu [MSci] 2022-2023
- Tingting Mo [MSci] 2022-2023
- Clara Tillous Oliva [BSc] 2022
- Ruogu Li* [MRes] 2021-2022
- Ziteng Guo* [MRes] 2021-2022
- Frederick Bloomfield [MRes] 2021-2022
- YuChen Sun [MRes] 2021-2022
- Taiwo Lawal [MSci] 2021-2022
- Karl-Ander Kasuk [MSci] 2021-2022
- Wuyi Zhang [MRes] 2020-2021
- Sofian Jasrai [MRes] 2020-2021
- Zhixu (Derek) Zhu [MRes] 2020-2021
- Christopher Cannon [MRes] 2020-2021
- Yan Hoi (Duncan) Lee* [MRes] 2020-2021
- Panayiotis Salatas [MSci] 2020-2021
- Mingyu Xia [MSci] 2020-2021
- Qian Zhang [MRes] 2019-2020
- Ellie Gomes-Callus [MRes] 2019-2020
- Junxi Peng [MSci] 2019-2020
- Wang (Huey) Chan [MRes] 2019-2020
- Qirui Zhu [BSc] 2019
- Youxin Cui [MRes] 2018-2019
- Junyi Cui [MRes] 2018-2019
- Luisa Giannitelli [MRes] 2018-2019
- Valeria de Velasco Bermudez [MRes] 2018-2019
- Ahmed Masood [BSc] 2018
- Lucas Balzat [Erasmus] 2018
- Annabelle Tan [BSc] 2018
- Simon Kellner [Erasmus] 2017-2018
- Yiming Han [MRes] 2017-2018
- Rutao Liu [MRes] 2017-2018
- Shuang Wu [MRes] 2017-2018
- Alan Mamand [MRes] 2017-2018
- Mengjun Gong [BSc, MRes] 2017-2019
- Kai Ling NG [MRes] 2015-2016
- Madeleine Laitz [MRes] 2016-2017
- Danlei Li [MRes] 2016-2017
- Yanjun Guo [MRes] 2016-2017
- Jun Wu [MRes] 2016-2017
- Xiaoqian (Lyra) Lin [MSci] 2016-2017
- Jack Dawson [BSc] 2016
- Francis Pigott-Plowden [BSc] 2016
- Polina Buikevich [MSci] 2015-2016
- Yihong Xing [MRes] 2015-2016
- Pip Jones [MRes] 2015-2016
- Nicolas Bock [Erasmus] 2014-2015
- Zhuo Zheng [MRes] 2014-2015
- Yuchen Tang [MRes] 2014-2015
- Rob Garnett [MSci] 2014-2015
- Alexandra Charleson [MSci] 2014-2015
- Euikon Jeong [BSc] 2014-2015
- Ashkan Kavei [MRes] 2013-2014
- Tabea Junk* [MRes] 2013-2014
- Xinyue (Lana) Liu [MSci] 2013-2014
- Wenyao (Lucky) Guo [MRes] 2013
- Tiffany Tin [MRes] 2013
- Daniel Malko [Erasmus] 2012-2013
- Raphael Quenard [Visiting] 2012-2013
- Li (Ellen) Hongge [MSci] 2012-2013
- Matthew Ho [MSci] 2012-2013
- Guanola Aumont [MRes] 2012
- Olivier Huin [MRes] 2012
- Chi Iu [BSc] 2011
- Vivat Termglinchan [MSci] 2011
- Jonathan Quinson [MSci] 2010-2011
- Gabriella Gentilcore [MSci] 2010-2011

* indicates a jointly supervised student