OPEN POSITIONS
CURRENT OPENINGS: several EPSRC-funded PhD studentships in a range of projects associated with the energy transition (geological carbon capture, hydrogen economy, energy storage, fuels and lubricants for e-vehicles). Additional information can be found here.
All applications should be sent to Dr. Ronny Pini
Research STAFF

Edward Bailey (Experimental officer) | Shell Digital Rock imaging lab
Humera Ansari (RA) | Experimental co-adsorption studies and rapid sorbent screening for CO2/H2 separations (co-supervised with Dr. Camille Petit)
RESEARCH STUDENTS SUPERVISION

Humera Ansari (PhD candidate) | CO2 enhanced shale gas recovery (co-supervised with Prof. Geoffrey Maitland and Prof. Martin Trusler)
Hassan Azzan (PhD candidate) | Experimental co-adsorption studies and rapid sorbent screening for CO2/H2 separations (co-supervised with Dr. Camille Petit)
Lucy Barton (PhD candidate) | Molecular engineering and design of CO2 sorbents for air capture using a rotary adsorber (co-supervised with Dr. Camille Petit)
Anna-Maria Eckel (PhD candidate) | Three-dimensional free convective mixing in heterogeneous porous media
Nerine Joewondo (PhD candidate) | On the behaviour and fate of trapped gas in porous media (co-supervised with Dr. Valeria Garbin)
Andrius Patapas (PhD candidate) | The effect of surfactant on complex interfacial flows (co-supervised with Prof. Omar Matar and Valeria Garbin)
Andrea Rovelli (PhD candidate) | Chemical transport in partially saturated porous media
Adam Ward (PhD candidate) | Predictive pore-scale modelling of chemical transport in technical porous solids
Kleio Zervidi (PhD candidate) | Hybrid systems for CO2 capture (co-supervised with Dr. Camille Petit and Prof. Martin Trusler)
ALUMNI

PhD students:
Rebecca Liyanage (2014-2018), Takeshi Kurotori (2015-2019), Junyoung Hwang (2016-2021)
Postdoctoral researchers:
Sayed Alireza Hosseinzadeh Hejazi (2017-2018), Lisa Joss (2016-2018), Swapna Rabha (2018-2019), Chidi Efika (2019), Takeshi Kurotori (2019-2021), Emily Chapman (2018-2020), Paul-Ross Thomson (2020)
MSc students: 2016 | Giuseppe Pancione. 2017 | Nabeel Hamad, Joshua Momodu, Elena Rietmann. 2018 | Claudia De Luca, Umer Shams Siddiqui, Eisa Al-Ghanim. 2019 | Angeliki Chalasti, Rheya Soares, Xuanyu Tong, Yuxin Zuo. 2020 | Elvira Díaz-Ortega, Oluwatomi Ojo, Ke Xu, Shuwei Gong.
Guest Lectures
Measuring and imaging chemical transport in heterogeneous porous media, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, 2019
Laboratory studies to understand the controls of flow and transport for CO2 storage, Science For Clean Energy Forum, The Geological Society, London, UK, 2019
Measuring and imaging chemical transport in heterogeneous porous media, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 2019
Measuring and imaging solute transport in heterogeneous porous media, Princeton University, Princeton, USA, 2019
High-pressure gas sorption studies on shales, The Geological Society, London, UK, 2017
Research Student Supervision
Azzan,H, Experimental co-adsorption studies and rapid sorbent screening for CO2/H2 separations
Eckel,A-M, Three-dimensional free convective mixing in heterogeneous porous media
Joewondo,N, On the behaviour and fate of trapped gas in porous media
Rovelli,A, Chemical transport in partially saturated porous media
Ward,A, Predictive pore-scale modelling of chemical transport in technical porous solids
Zervidi,K, Hybrid systems for CO2 capture