Advanced Energy Materials Group
Ana had a fantastic time in Lancaster University. A day full of meetings with academics, learning about exciting research activities going on there! I enjoyed visiting the facilities and answering all the questions from the audience! Thanks so much for the invitation.
Ana gave a seminar at Oxford University on the 20th October 2025. She presented her work around engineering and synthetic approaches to promote faster kinetics and higher performance in hematite photoelectrodes. Ana had a great time meeting different academics in the Chemistry Department and visiting their facilities.
Michael Thielke presented the concept of his EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship on Li-S batteries using electrospinning, as part of flash presentations organised for the PDRAs in the department. Great job, Michael!
Maadri and Natalia presented their posters at the Octagon as part of the Industrial Liaison Forum (ILF) held at QMUL on the 5th November 2025. Both did a great job engaging with the visitors and sharing the results of their ongoing PhD projects!
Some of us visited the group of Prof Milana Trifkovic at University of Calgary as part of a Royal Society International Exchanges Grant. The university and landscape in Calgary were amazing and we were able to enjoy a bit of nature over the weekend! Milana’s group were very welcoming and fantastic hosts! Hattie, Jesus and Michael presented their work to Milana’s group and found a few opportunities for collaboration that we will follow up and hopefully lead to more interactions and interesting outcomes! We are looking forward to hosting Milana and her group back in London soon!
Ana presented her group’s work on alternative electrodes for flow batteries in the Symposium organised by UCL, Imperial ad Wiley. It was great to share the group’s work and listen to all the great talks. Thanks so much for the invitation!
Maadri was awarded runner up prize in the Wiley Advanced Portfolio’s One-day Symposium on Energy Storage Conversion, held in collaboration with UCL and Imperial College London at UCL East (12 September 2025). Congratulations Maadri!
In September, Maadri and Ana went to Cambridge to participate in the SLB/ Academia collaboration week (1-2 September 2025). Maadri presented a poster summarising her PhD project on textile-waste as electrodes for flow batteries, and main results to date. Maadri’s PhD is supported by an ICASE PhD studentship with SLB (industrial supervisor: Dr Adam Colbourne). Ana gave an invited talk on sustainable electrodes for flow batteries.
Michael Thielke has officially started his EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship ElectroBioLiS, a project that will develop freestanding spinnable sulfur-rich copolymers in combination with conductive carbon particles which can be directly used as a cathode in a lithium sulfur battery without the need to making an ink to deposit onto a current collector. This project will have a positive impact in the battery community and beyond. Sulfur co-polymers have shown to exhibit outstanding capabilities in domains such as mercury capture from aqueous solutions, application for which freestanding fibre mats with large surface area would be highly beneficial. Congratulations, Michael – this is an exciting project!
Making the most of the weather, we decided to head to Victoria Park for another relaxing picnic with the group – also to celebrate Michael’s birthday, happy birthday, Michael! 🙂
After three fruitful years as postdoc in our group at QMUL, Mauricio is leaving to pursue a new adventure with his company Eutechtics, a dynamic startup tackling climate change by developing modern, sustainable chemical processes that decarbonise key parts of global supply chains! You have been a fantastic member of the group and will be greatly missed. Wishing you the best in this new stage of your career!