The Functional Membrane and Energy Materials Group is led by Dr Qilei Song. The group is interdisciplinary and motivated to basic research but with interests in practical applications of our research in oil & gas, chemical, and energy industries. The group consists of Postdoctoral and PhD researchers from a broad range of backgrounds and combines knowledge of materials chemistry, polymer membranes, porous materials, nanotechnology, electrochemistry, and chemical engineering science, to develop solutions to solve global challenges.  

Our research interests include the development of membrane technology and functional materials to solve global challenges in energy, water, climate change, environment, and healthcare. Current research projects include electrochemical energy conversion and storage, water purification, CO2 capture and conversion, H2 Production, gas and chemical separations. 

MEng, MSC, and MRes students

MEng students

• Joella Diong and Amanda Wong, MEng students, project on gas separation membranes

Alumni

PhD

Dr Toby Wong (10/2019-11/2023), postdoc in the group

Dr Luke Petit (10/2019-11/2023)

Dr Michael High, Sustainability Analyst, Sizewell C.

Dr Rui Tan (2017-2021, postdoc, 8/2021-6/2023), Assistant Professor, Warwick University.

Dr Anqi Wang (2018-2021), postdoc in the group

MEng, MSc and MRes students

• Jayden Matthews, MRes student, 2022-2023

• Yanlin Wang, MSc student, 2022-2023
• Houliang Li, MSc student, 2022-2023
• Weiwen Liu, MSc student, 2022-2023
• Yu'ang Guo, MSc student, 2022-2023
• Yujin Zhong, MSc student, 2022-2023

• Ngan Nguyen, MEng student, 2022-2023
• Carla Genardy,  MEng student, 2022-2023
• Jiaxin Lu, MRes, 2021-2022 
• Chonyang Qin, MRes, 2021-2022
• Yanbing Chen, MRes, 2021-2022
• Rui Zong, MSc, 2021-2022
• Jiaqi Song, MSc, 2021-2022
• Jiaxi Li, MSc, 2021-2022
• Jiawei Chen, MSc, 2021-2022
• Mudi Cao, MSc, 2021-2022
• Chunwan Zhang,  MEng student, 2021-2022
• Kyungmin Nam, MEng student, 2021-2022
• Marius Kornovan, MEng Student, 2021-2022
• Koray Araz, MEng Student, 2021-2022
• Hongzhen He, MSc student (2020-2021), now PhD student at UCL
• Raja Abbas, MSc student (2020-2021)
• Arianna Ajaereh, MSc student (2020-2021)
• Shibo Li, MSc student (2019-2020), now BASF, China
• Xuan He, MSc student (2019-2020), now Shell Shanghai
• Zhouming Sun, MSc student (2019-2020), now Evonik Shanghai
• Hanfeng Li, MSc student (2019-2020)
• Luxi Yu, MEng student (2019-2020), now PhD student at Imperial
• Xiaoqun Zhou, MEng student (2019-2020)
• Teck Chin, MEng Student (2019-2020)
• Richard Shen, MEng Student (2019-2020)
• Jiaqi Weng, MSc student (2018-2019)
• Yueyang Pan, MSc student (2018-2019)
• Shuxian Wang, MSc student (2018-2019)
• Wenjie Mao, MSc student (2018-2019) 
• Andrés Martín-Fuertes Brañas, MSc student (2018-2019), now Junior Process Engineer
• Zheng Chen, MRes student (2018-2019), now PhD student at the University of Edinburgh
• Haodong Li, MRes student (2018-2019) 
• Sandy Liman, MEng Student (2018-2019)
• Siu Kwong Cheung, MEng student (2018-2019)
• Humza Siddique, MEng student (2018-2019)
• Mohammed Al-Hijji, MEng Student (2018-2019)
• Haoming Liang, MEng Student (2018-2019)
• Jiaming Xu, Meng Student (2018-2019)
• Yanchi Liu, MSc student (2017-2018)
• Xinyu Zhang, MSc student (2017-2018), now Sinopec China
• Alicia Cheong, MEng student (2016-2017)
• Dale Seddon, MEng student  (2016-2017)
• Thomas Johnston, MEng student (2016-2017)
• Armand Brochard, MEng student (2016-2017)
• Kieran Naylor, MEng student (2016-2017)
• Tianhe Zhang, MSc student  (2016-2017)
• Barbara Primera Darwich, MSc student (2016-2017), now PhD student, EPFL
• Anqi Wang, MSc student (2016-2017), now PDRA in the group
• Qiao Zhang, MSc student (2015-2016), now JP Morgan
• Nan Ding, MSc student (2015-2016), now BASF Shanghai
• Xiaoqi Li, MSc student (2015-2016), now Evonik Shanghai
• Horace Ka Ho Chien, MSc student (2014-2015)

Visiting Students

• Min Hu, from USTC, 2018, now PhD student at University of Manchester
• Dewang Zeng, from Southeast University, 2017, now researcher at Southeast University
• Rongtan Gao, from Peking University, 2017
• Zifeng Song, from Tsinghua University, 2017

UROP Students

• Emily Wong, UROP from Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, 2022-2023.  
• Jingxian Zhang, 2021-2022, PhD student MIT (2023)
• Gabrielle Moore, UROP from Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, 2021-2022.  Read Gabi's UROP research on MIT website
• Shengming Zhang, 2018, now PhD student at the University of Oxford
• Xiaoqun Zhou, 2018, now PhD student at Harbin Institute of Technology
• Tomas Juergensen, 2018, now engineer at Northvolt
• Hassan Azzan, 2017, now PhD student at Imperial College London