Group members

Joshua O. Olowoyo

Postdoctoral Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: Development of nanocatalysts and their applications in energy storage and conversion

Chun Li

Postdoctoral Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: Development of porous carbons and their applications in energy storage and conversion; molten salt electro-reduction of CO2.

Nan Zou

Postdoctoral Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: Non-thermal plasma catalysis; CO2 conversion, Design and synthesis of MOF catalyst

Haoyu Wang

Postdoctoral Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: Hydrothermal Carbonization, Gasification of Industrial and Municipal Biowastes

Abdurrashid Haruna

Postdoctoral Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: Heterogeneous catalysis, Energy materials, Waste management, Environmental sustainability, and Machine learning.

Reem Shomal

Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests / Specializations: Biofuel Upgrading, Catalytic processes, Enzymatic Technology, Biofuels Production, Wastewater Treatment

Vahid Shahed Gharahshiran

Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests / Specializations: Design, synthesis and characterization of heterogeneous catalysts, self-assembled porous catalysts, ALD synthesis of catalysts, steam and dry reforming, biomass and CO2 conversion, non-thermal plasma nitrogen fixation, sustainable energy and renewable fuels.

Rasoul Salami

Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interests / Specializations: Designing catalysts for converting CO₂ into ethanol in thermal reactors, with theoretical and experimental studies on the mechanisms involved

Dongjie Pang

PhD student

Research Interests / Specializations: Green synthesis techniques for battery electrode materials and recyclable battery electrode materials

Danxiuru Wu

PhD student (Co-Supervised)

Research Interests / Specializations: Microorganism, oil treatment, bioremediation process for burnt oil residue by bacteria

Moataz Abdrabou

Ph.D. Candidate ( graduated 2024 )

Research Interests / Specializations: Partial upgrading of oil sand bitumen, Fuels and Biofuels, Catalytic cracking

Qiuji Zhu

Master Student ( graduated 2024)

Research Interests / Specializations: CO2 capture using molten salts

Fatemeh Fazlikhani

Research Assistant (Former)

Research Interests / Specializations: Biomass and biofuel, Bitumen upgrading, Catalytic processes.

Wei Zhang

Postdoctoral Associate (Former)

Research Interests / Specializations: Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Materials Science, Energy Materials

Seyyedmajid Sharifvaghefi

Postdoctoral Associate (Former)

Research Interests / Specializations: Microwave, Bio-oil upgrading, Catalysis, Dry reforming