S²AVE Lab · Swansea University
People
Group Leader
Dr Rui Tan
Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Swansea University
Postdoctoral Researchers
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Anli Ji
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Porous polymer synthesis and membranes for iron–sulfur flow batteries
PhD & Master’s Students
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Nadeen Alotaibi
PhD Student · Chemical Engineering
MOFs and electrocatalysis · SUIPRES-funded · Joined January 2025
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Muyang Chen
PhD Student
SUIPRES-funded
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Justice Delali Akoto
PhD Student
SUIPRES-funded
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Yue Luo
PhD Student
High-energy flow batteries and electrocatalysis · Joined October 2025
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Gurleen Gakhal
PhD Student · Co-supervised
Fully funded FSE PhD studentship
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Bing Zhang
PhD Student
Fully funded UKRI–Swansea PhD studentship (mini CDT)
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Rayhaneh Ghafourian
PhD Student · Co-supervised
Fully funded UKRI–Swansea PhD studentship (mini CDT)
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Zining Tang
PhD Student · Co-supervised
PIMs for sensor applications · Fully funded EPSRC PhD studentship
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Fangfang Wang
PhD Student · Co-supervised
Fully funded EPSRC PhD studentship
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George Sherwood
MChem Student
Organic–inorganic composite membranes for flow batteries · Joined October 2026
Visiting Scholars & Students
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Nan Liu
Visiting Student
Battery policy · Harbin Engineering University and visiting student at the University of Birmingham
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Shijiao Liu
Independent Visiting Researcher
Master’s degree, University of Birmingham
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Hongzhen He
Visiting Scholar
Coatings and separators to suppress side reactions in aqueous batteries · UCL graduate
Alumni
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Siwei Guan
Former Visiting Researcher
Postdoctoral Researcher at Hangzhou Dianzi University · Battery management and diagnostics
Collaborators
Academic collaborators
- Tom Bennett · University of Canterbury
- Anthony Cheetham · University of Cambridge
- Clare Grey · University of Cambridge
- John Hanna · University of Warwick
- Daping He · Wuhan University of Technology
- Bo Hong · Central South University
- Kim Jelfs · Imperial College London
- Anthony Kucernak · Imperial College London
- Yanqing Lai · Central South University
- Tao Li · Argonne National Laboratory
- Wei Li · South China Agricultural University
- Tongchao Liu · Argonne National Laboratory
- John Low · University of Warwick
- Liqiang Mai · Wuhan University of Technology
- Neil B. McKeown · University of Edinburgh
- Mengzheng Ouyang · Imperial College London
- Stephen Skinner · Imperial College London
- Ifan Stephens · Imperial College London
- Magdalena Titirici · Imperial College London
- Anqi Wang · KAUST
- Mengran Wang · Central South University
- Tianren Tee Xie · Anaphite
- Jinlong Yang · Shenzhen University
- Jie Yang · University of Warwick
- Chunchun Ye · NTU Singapore
- Liyuan Zhang · Central South University
- Wenbo Evan Zhao · Radboud University
Academic supervisors and mentors
- Nigel Brandon and Qilei Song (now at the University of Birmingham) · PhD supervisors at Imperial College London
- Kang Li · PhD mentor, Imperial College London
- Feng Pan · MSc supervisor, Peking University
- Jin Liu · BEng supervisor, Central South University and the University of Utah