Professor Anthony Kucernak


Research Staff

  • Jack Dawson

    Personal details

    Jack Dawson Research Technician in Fuel Cells

    Location

    Molecular Sciences Research Hub
    White City Campus

    Research themes

    - High Surface Area Carbon Materials
    - Non-precious Electrocatalysts
    - Hybrid Redox Flow Batteries

  • Mengjun Gong

    Personal details

    Mengjun Gong Research Associate

    Location

    Molecular Sciences Research Hub
    White City Campus

    Research themes

    - Li-S Batteries
    - Non-precious Electrocatalysts
    - (PEM) Fuel Cells


PhD Students

Christopher Cannon

Christopher Cannon
Organic-Hydrogen Hybrid Redox Flow Batteries

YuChen Sun

YuChen Sun
High Performance Hydrogen-Manganese Hybrid Redox Flow Battery

Karl-Ander Kasuk

Karl-Ander Kasuk
(External: University of Tartu) Alkaline Floating Electrode System

Michalis Metaxas

Michalis Metaxas
Electrochemical Upgrading of Pyrolysis Oil

Tingting Mo

Tingting Mo
Mitigating Hydrogen Peroxide Formation in PEM Fuel Cells & Electrolysers


Project Students

Yunchu Sun

Yunchu Sun
MSci: Degradation of Non-precious Electrocatalysts in PEMFC Cathode

Nita Srinivasan

Nita Srinivasan
MSci: Fluorine-doped Tin Oxide as a Catalytic Support for IrOx in Electrolysers

Chenrui Zhu

Chenrui Zhu
MSci: Single Atom Electrocatalysts for Nitrate & Nitrite Reduction

Haiyi Wang

Haiyi Wang
MSci: Kinetics of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction with Ultra-low Catalyst Loading

Project Students (MRes)

Fidaus Abubakar

Fidaus Abubakar
MRes: Electrocatalytic Fixing of CO2 into Polymers (Co-sup: Prof. G. Britovsek)

Jiazheng Lu

Jiazheng Lu
MRes: Carbon-based Catalysts for Olefin Expoxidation (Co-sup: Prof. G. Britovsek)

Yangzhe Xu

Yangzhe Xu
MRes: Advanced Electrodes for Hydrogen-Manganese Redox Flow Batteries


Former Group Members

Research Associates:

- Dr Xiaoqian (Lyra) Lin 2023-2024
- Dr Colleen Jackson 2018-2023
    (Now at Johnson Matthey, UK)
- Dr Andrés Parra Puerto 2016-2022
    (Now at the University of Alicante, ES)
- Dr Asad Mehmood 2018-2021
    (Now at BAM, Berlin, DE)
- Dr Guohui Zhang 2017-2021
    (Now at DICP, Dalian, CN)
- Dr Javier Rubio Garcia 2014-2020
    (Now at the University of Cambridge, UK)
- Dr Daniel Malko 2016-2018
    (Now at BASF, DE)
- Dr Kieran Fahy 2014-2018
    (Now at Cummins Inc, CA)
- Dr Matthew Markiewicz 2011-2017
    (Now at Ballard Power Systems, Vancouver, CA)
- Dr Jacek Lapinski 2013-2017
    (Now at Bramble Energy, Crawley, UK)
- Dr Tiziana Denaro 2016-2017
    (Now at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
- Dr Christos Kalyvas 2010-2015
    (Now at the University of Hertfordshire, UK)
- Dr Thiago Lopes 2012-2014
    (Now at the University of Sao Paolo, BR)
- Dr Biraj Kumar Kakati 2012-2014
    (Now at Tezpur University, IN)
- Dr Venkat Narayanan 2012-2014
- Dr Manos Simianakis 2011-2013
- Dr Mayur Mistry 2011-2013
- Dr Denis Kramer 2010-2011
- Dr Fabrice Bidault 2010-2011

Research Technicians:

- Martin Kaiser 2016-2018

Visiting Researchers:

- Jens Eller [PSI] 2018
- Rakel Wreland Lindström [KTH] 2017
- Hiroshi Idenm [Nissan] 2011-2013
- Eishiro Toyoda [Toyota] 2007-2008

PhD Students

- Dr Xiaoqian (Lyra) Lin 2017-2023
- Dr Jun Wu 2017-2022
- Dr Ben Simon 2018-2022
- Dr Muhang Xiao 2017-2022
- Mark Clapp 2021-2022
- Maxime Bedouet 2014-2019
- Dr Daniel Malko 2013-2016
- Dr Graham Smith 2012-2015
- Dr Chris Zalits 2011-2013
- Dr Ehsan Ahmad 2008-2013*
- Honglin Xu 2010-2013*
- Cynthia Attingre 2009-2012
- Dr Nico Cousens 2009-2012
- Dr Chris Zalits 2008-2011
- Dr Fabrice Bidault 2010-2011
- Dr Alice Sleightholme 2003-2007
- Dr Gregory Offer 2003-2006
- Dr Patrick Hayes 2001-2006
- Dr Sameera Darr 1996-2006
- Dr Alan Palmer 1997-2004
- Dr Nikos Vasileiadis 1999-2004
- Dr Clare Green 1998-2002
- Dr Carlos Mongay-Batalla 1997-2003
- Dr Richard Brown 1997-2001
- Dr Alec Thompson 1997-2001

* indicates a jointly supervised student

Project Students

- Junxi Liu* [MRes] 2022-2022
- Michalis Metaxas [MRes] 2022-2023
- Haoyu Zhang [MRes] 2022-2023
- Xinyi Wu [MSci] 2022-2023
- Tingting Mo [MSci] 2022-2023
- Clara Tillous Oliva [BSc] 2022
- Ruogu Li* [MRes] 2021-2022
- Ziteng Guo* [MRes] 2021-2022
- Frederick Bloomfield [MRes] 2021-2022
- YuChen Sun [MRes] 2021-2022
- Taiwo Lawal [MSci] 2021-2022
- Karl-Ander Kasuk [MSci] 2021-2022
- Wuyi Zhang [MRes] 2020-2021
- Sofian Jasrai [MRes] 2020-2021
- Zhixu (Derek) Zhu [MRes] 2020-2021
- Christopher Cannon [MRes] 2020-2021
- Yan Hoi (Duncan) Lee* [MRes] 2020-2021
- Panayiotis Salatas [MSci] 2020-2021
- Mingyu Xia [MSci] 2020-2021
- Qian Zhang [MRes] 2019-2020
- Ellie Gomes-Callus [MRes] 2019-2020
- Junxi Peng [MSci] 2019-2020
- Wang (Huey) Chan [MRes] 2019-2020
- Qirui Zhu [BSc] 2019
- Youxin Cui [MRes] 2018-2019
- Junyi Cui [MRes] 2018-2019
- Luisa Giannitelli [MRes] 2018-2019
- Valeria de Velasco Bermudez [MRes] 2018-2019
- Ahmed Masood [BSc] 2018
- Lucas Balzat [Erasmus] 2018
- Annabelle Tan [BSc] 2018
- Simon Kellner [Erasmus] 2017-2018
- Yiming Han [MRes] 2017-2018
- Rutao Liu [MRes] 2017-2018
- Shuang Wu [MRes] 2017-2018
- Alan Mamand [MRes] 2017-2018
- Mengjun Gong [BSc, MRes] 2017-2019
- Kai Ling NG [MRes] 2015-2016
- Madeleine Laitz [MRes] 2016-2017
- Danlei Li [MRes] 2016-2017
- Yanjun Guo [MRes] 2016-2017
- Jun Wu [MRes] 2016-2017
- Xiaoqian (Lyra) Lin [MSci] 2016-2017
- Jack Dawson [BSc] 2016
- Francis Pigott-Plowden [BSc] 2016
- Polina Buikevich [MSci] 2015-2016
- Yihong Xing [MRes] 2015-2016
- Pip Jones [MRes] 2015-2016
- Nicolas Bock [Erasmus] 2014-2015
- Zhuo Zheng [MRes] 2014-2015
- Yuchen Tang [MRes] 2014-2015
- Rob Garnett [MSci] 2014-2015
- Alexandra Charleson [MSci] 2014-2015
- Euikon Jeong [BSc] 2014-2015
- Ashkan Kavei [MRes] 2013-2014
- Tabea Junk* [MRes] 2013-2014
- Xinyue (Lana) Liu [MSci] 2013-2014
- Wenyao (Lucky) Guo [MRes] 2013
- Tiffany Tin [MRes] 2013
- Daniel Malko [Erasmus] 2012-2013
- Raphael Quenard [Visiting] 2012-2013
- Li (Ellen) Hongge [MSci] 2012-2013
- Matthew Ho [MSci] 2012-2013
- Guanola Aumont [MRes] 2012
- Olivier Huin [MRes] 2012
- Chi Iu [BSc] 2011
- Vivat Termglinchan [MSci] 2011
- Jonathan Quinson [MSci] 2010-2011
- Gabriella Gentilcore [MSci] 2010-2011

* indicates a jointly supervised student

Contact Details

Prof. Anthony Kucernak

G22B
Molecular Sciences Research Hub (MSRH)
Imperial College London
White City Campus
London
W12 0BZ
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)20 7594 5831
Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 5804
Email: anthony@imperial.ac.uk