OUR TEAM
Dr. Nicholas Bedford
Prior to arriving at UNSW, Nick was a staff member of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (2017-2018), where he also served as a contractor (2016-2017), National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Associate (2012-2014) and a Dayton Area Graduate Studies Scholar during his PhD (2009-2011). He obtained his PhD in Materials Science from the University of Cincinnati (2011) and his BS in Chemistry and Physics from Central Michigan University (2007).
Dr. N. Bedford CV
OUR TEAM
Dr. Nicholas Bedford
Prior to arriving at UNSW, Nick was a staff member of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (2017-2018), where he also served as a contractor (2016-2017), National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Associate (2012-2014) and a Dayton Area Graduate Studies Scholar during his PhD (2009-2011). He obtained his PhD in Materials Science from the University of Cincinnati (2011) and his BS in Chemistry and Physics from Central Michigan University (2007).
Dr. N. Bedford CV
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Research associates
Dr. William Hadinata Lie
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering
University of New South Wales
B.Eng (Chemical and Biomolecular)
1st Class Hons.- University of Sydney
Diploma in Chemical Engineering- Singapore Polytechnic
w.hadinatalie@unsw.edu.au
Dr. Stephanie Chua
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering University of New South Wales
Master of Science, Chemistry, University of Santo Tomas
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, University of Santo Tomas
Graduate students
Muhammad Zubair
Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
Scientia PhD Scholarship
PDEng, Delft University of Technology, Process & Equipment Design
MS, National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan),
Chemical Engineering
BSc, University of Engineering and Technology (Pakistan), Chemical Engineering
m.zubair@student.unsw.edu.au
Bijil Subhash
Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
RTP Scholarship + ETA
B.S., University of New South Wales, Chemical Engineering
b.subhash@student.unsw.edu.au
Yuwei Yang
Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
TFS Scholarship
MPhil, University of New South Wales, Chemical Engineering
B.Eng., Qingdao University of Science and Technology
yuwei.yang@student.unsw.edu.au
Haira Gabriela Hackbarth
Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
TFS Scholarship
B. Eng, University of Joinville and Region (Brazil)
h.hackbarth@unsw.edu.au
Gustavo Sant'Anna
Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
TFS Scholarship
MPhil, Rio De Janeiro State University, Chemical Engineering
Chem. Lic., Rio De Janeiro State University
g.de_souza_santanna@unsw.edu.au
Kshitij Srivastava
Ph.D. Student (Primary Supervisor: Prof Aguey-Zinsou)
Chemical Engineering
RTP Scholarship
MS, Purdue University, Chemical Engineering
BEng, Delhi Technological University, Applied Chemistry
k.srivastava@unsw.edu.au
Jhair Andres Peña Prada
Ph.D. Student
Chemical Engineering
TFS Scholarship
MS, Tianjin University, Chemical Engineering
BS, Universidad Industrial de Santader (cum laude)
j.pena_prada@unsw.edu.au
Taren Cataldo
Ph.D. Student (Co-supervised with Dr Jessica Veliscek-Carolan)
Chemical Engineering
RTP Scholarship
BS (Honours), Swinburne University of Technology, Chemistry
BA/BS, Swinburne University of Technology, Professional Writing and Editing
t.cataldo@unsw.edu.au
Undergraduate students
Kere Muiruri
Honours Thesis 2022-2023
Sunny Huang
Honours Thesis 2023
Aaron Prasad
Honours Thesis 2023
Graduate students alumni
Dr. William Hadinata Lie
“Prussian blue analogue thin-films for electroreforming of biomass-derived alcohols”, PhD 2022 (Current- Postdoctoral Associate at UNSW, School of Chemical Engineering)
Dr. Junjie Jiang
“Highly Reactive Metal Oxides Through Biomineralisation-Driven Defect Formation”, PhD 2022 (Current – Scientist – NSW Department of Planning and Environment)
Undergraduate alumni
William Salim
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Kirana Pratama
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Abbey Last
Biotic H2 VIP, 2022
Keerti Sai
Biotic H2 VIP, 2022
Laureen Amariss
Biotic H2 VIP, 2022
Rooma Shailaj
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021-2022
Elke Leamon
Biotic H2 VIP, 2022
Cameron Suen
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021-2022
Benjamin Howard
Biotic H2 VIP, 2022
Luke Van Vreumingen
Biotic H2 VIP, 2022
Ricky Lu
Honours Thesis 2022
Kate Rangan
Honours Thesis 2022
Joanne Trieu
Honours Thesis 2022
Tina Ventoura
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021-2022
Tracy Liu
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Carmen Zhou
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Brian Hu
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Matthew Brittain
Honours Thesis, 2020-2021
Mohammed Alruwali
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Ashley Eng
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Ziyue Feng
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Valencia Suwarno
Honours Thesis, 2020 – 2021
Hayden Ou
Taste of Research 2018, Honours Thesis 2020
Felita Najaya
Honours Thesis 2019
Liyana Hasnan Effendi
Honours Thesis 2019
Adam Inchley
Honours Thesis 2019
Natalie Kerry
Taste of Research, 2020 – 2021
Asin Tasnim Zainuzzaman
Honours Thesis, 2020 – 2021
Fatin Nazirah Mohd Fadzil
Honours Thesis 2021-2022
Georgie Oag
Biotic H2 VIP, 2021
Hot hot hot 🥵☀️🔥 off the press 🗞️📰, new paper in Advanced Science 🧮🧪. In collabos with the Boyer group and others at UNSW, SiOC materials were generated by light-induced 💡 3D printing 🖨️, wherein microstructure 🔬could be controlled using polymer chemistry ⚗️. These materials have potential applications in next gen ceramics 🧱for high temperature/mechanical property 🌡️🏋️♂️applications. Super neat stuff 😎👩🔬🧑🔬👨🔬. Read the paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202304734 #3dprinting #additivemanufacturing #ceramics #siliconoxycarbide #polymerchemistry #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #morefireplease #98 #dataordie
Hot hot hot 🥵☀️🔥 off the press 🗞️📰, new paper in Advanced Science 🧮🧪. In collabos with the Boyer group and others at UNSW, SiOC materials were generated by light-induced 💡 3D printing 🖨️, wherein microstructure 🔬could be controlled using polymer chemistry ⚗️. These materials have potential applications in next gen ceramics 🧱for high temperature/mechanical property 🌡️🏋️♂️applications. Super neat stuff 😎👩🔬🧑🔬👨🔬. Read the paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202304734 #3dprinting #additivemanufacturing #ceramics #siliconoxycarbide #polymerchemistry #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #morefireplease #98 #dataordie
Congrats to @bijilsubhash for officially completing his PhD 👨🎓🎓👨🔬🎉🥳👏🎊🙌🍾🥂!! His work on high entropy alloys😶🌫️🌀🍹(coming soon to a few journals near you 🤠👀🫡) is positioned to really shift the landscape in this emerging field 🪩💃🕺. Great work! #phd #phdlife #phdcomplete #missionaccomplished✔️ #next #highentropyalloys #electrocatalysis #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #dataordie
Congrats to @bijilsubhash for officially completing his PhD 👨🎓🎓👨🔬🎉🥳👏🎊🙌🍾🥂!! His work on high entropy alloys😶🌫️🌀🍹(coming soon to a few journals near you 🤠👀🫡) is positioned to really shift the landscape in this emerging field 🪩💃🕺. Great work! #phd #phdlife #phdcomplete #missionaccomplished✔️ #next #highentropyalloys #electrocatalysis #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #dataordie
Great visit at the University of Adelaide this week 🦆🦜🍷😎🆒. Thanks to our mates in the Centre for Materials in Energy and Catalysis 🏬🧱⚡️🧪 (and the future ARC CoE CSI 🏆◼️🥼💡) for hosting. Great to see the labs and campus, give a seminar, and come up with some nice collaborative ideas. Looking forward to future work together 😁😎💪. #collabs #adelaide #dontsleeponadelaide #sustainability #energyscience #campusartwork #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Great visit at the University of Adelaide this week 🦆🦜🍷😎🆒. Thanks to our mates in the Centre for Materials in Energy and Catalysis 🏬🧱⚡️🧪 (and the future ARC CoE CSI 🏆◼️🥼💡) for hosting. Great to see the labs and campus, give a seminar, and come up with some nice collaborative ideas. Looking forward to future work together 😁😎💪. #collabs #adelaide #dontsleeponadelaide #sustainability #energyscience #campusartwork #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Look at all that green 💚🎄✅🌲☘️🌴🌿🍃🦖🟩♻️🎋🤑😎. Just got done with a great visit to Scion in NZ 🇳🇿with @yuweii77vv to discuss future collaborative plans on forestry biomass refining 🌲➡️🧪⛽️. Seminars were given 🗣️, trees were seen 🥾, and all the geothermal activity 🌋was impressive. Looking forward to reciprocal hosting of postdocs, students, and staff 🙏👏💁♀️💁💁♂️. #collabs #green #treestreestrees #sustainability #hothotwater #biomass #forestry #nzforestry #nicewood #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Look at all that green 💚🎄✅🌲☘️🌴🌿🍃🦖🟩♻️🎋🤑😎. Just got done with a great visit to Scion in NZ 🇳🇿with @yuweii77vv to discuss future collaborative plans on forestry biomass refining 🌲➡️🧪⛽️. Seminars were given 🗣️, trees were seen 🥾, and all the geothermal activity 🌋was impressive. Looking forward to reciprocal hosting of postdocs, students, and staff 🙏👏💁♀️💁💁♂️. #collabs #green #treestreestrees #sustainability #hothotwater #biomass #forestry #nzforestry #nicewood #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Congrats to @alex_mubingdiao for completing her summer research project at UNSW 👩🔬🧑🔬👨🔬🔬🧪🧐. Mubing joined our team from CityU 🌆 🇭🇰, where she worked on the electroprocessing of engineered plant biomass. Very nice work! The efforts are part of a larger project between researchers at NREL 🔋, Purdue 🚂 and Uni Sao Paolo 🇧🇷, on engineered biomass for sustainable chemistry and fuels 🌱🪴. #undergradresearch #summerresearch #itswinterhere #collabs #biomass #sustainability #biopolymer #sugarcane #poplarwood #echem #comebackanytime #seeyousoon #dataordie
Congrats to @alex_mubingdiao for completing her summer research project at UNSW 👩🔬🧑🔬👨🔬🔬🧪🧐. Mubing joined our team from CityU 🌆 🇭🇰, where she worked on the electroprocessing of engineered plant biomass. Very nice work! The efforts are part of a larger project between researchers at NREL 🔋, Purdue 🚂 and Uni Sao Paolo 🇧🇷, on engineered biomass for sustainable chemistry and fuels 🌱🪴. #undergradresearch #summerresearch #itswinterhere #collabs #biomass #sustainability #biopolymer #sugarcane #poplarwood #echem #comebackanytime #seeyousoon #dataordie
New paper out in Chemistry of Materials ⚗️🧱👍💪. Led by our wonderful and dapper collabs at ETH Zurich 🍫 🇨🇭, GaOx catalyst grown by ALD ⚛️🍰💦 for isobutane dehydrogenation reactions. Catalyst were grown on SiO2 with precise thicknesses that modulate critical pentacoordinated Ga active sites. To study local structure of these materials RMC simulations ⏮️🎰, which reveal and quantify the active sites. Awesome work by all @zuby57 . Read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00923 #ald #gallium #silica #isobutane #DIYdPDF #collabos #reversemontecarlo #seeyouindecember #dataordie
New paper out in Chemistry of Materials ⚗️🧱👍💪. Led by our wonderful and dapper collabs at ETH Zurich 🍫 🇨🇭, GaOx catalyst grown by ALD ⚛️🍰💦 for isobutane dehydrogenation reactions. Catalyst were grown on SiO2 with precise thicknesses that modulate critical pentacoordinated Ga active sites. To study local structure of these materials RMC simulations ⏮️🎰, which reveal and quantify the active sites. Awesome work by all @zuby57 . Read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00923 #ald #gallium #silica #isobutane #DIYdPDF #collabos #reversemontecarlo #seeyouindecember #dataordie
Just finished an excellent trip to the DMV 🏬🦼🏎️ and the mighty mighty Dayton OH 🎺🎷✈️👾for invited seminars 👨🏫🧌 and collaborative meetings 😎🤩 at the Army 💣 and Air Force 🛩️ Research Labs respectively. Great discussions on current and future projects, but no photos onsite ❌📸❌! Instead, here are some photos of iconic Baltimore 🧁, DC 🏛️and Dayton 🛸landmarks ✔️. #watchoutnow #collabos #newprojects #sugarbytheharbor #capitolatnight #airplanespotter #meatnicholas #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Just finished an excellent trip to the DMV 🏬🦼🏎️ and the mighty mighty Dayton OH 🎺🎷✈️👾for invited seminars 👨🏫🧌 and collaborative meetings 😎🤩 at the Army 💣 and Air Force 🛩️ Research Labs respectively. Great discussions on current and future projects, but no photos onsite ❌📸❌! Instead, here are some photos of iconic Baltimore 🧁, DC 🏛️and Dayton 🛸landmarks ✔️. #watchoutnow #collabos #newprojects #sugarbytheharbor #capitolatnight #airplanespotter #meatnicholas #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
And that’s a wrap on another successful and amazing week at IMRC 🇲🇽🧱🔬👩🏫🧑🏫👨🏫. This year, the group was invited to both IOCD energy workshop and the Advanced Defense Materials Workshop 🖇️📎📊⚡️💣🛩️, both muy excelente 👍. Jhair gave an poster on his thesis work and our colleague @ale.fraca was there aw well. Great science, great new collaborations, amazing food, and a room with a view. See y’all next year 😎. #imrc #iocd #sustainablechemistry #toomuchmezcal #phdresearch #phd #phdlife #scienceinmexico #gettingafterit #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
And that’s a wrap on another successful and amazing week at IMRC 🇲🇽🧱🔬👩🏫🧑🏫👨🏫. This year, the group was invited to both IOCD energy workshop and the Advanced Defense Materials Workshop 🖇️📎📊⚡️💣🛩️, both muy excelente 👍. Jhair gave an poster on his thesis work and our colleague @ale.fraca was there aw well. Great science, great new collaborations, amazing food, and a room with a view. See y’all next year 😎. #imrc #iocd #sustainablechemistry #toomuchmezcal #phdresearch #phd #phdlife #scienceinmexico #gettingafterit #cantstopwontstop #dataordie
Congrats to @tarencataldo for winning a poster award 🌠🥇at Q2XAFS 🩻🧽🌈👓 for his work on minor actinide sorbet materials. Excellent work, way to represent 💪. #phd #phdlife #phdaward #xafs #posteraward #gettingafterit #dataordie
Congrats to @tarencataldo for winning a poster award 🌠🥇at Q2XAFS 🩻🧽🌈👓 for his work on minor actinide sorbet materials. Excellent work, way to represent 💪. #phd #phdlife #phdaward #xafs #posteraward #gettingafterit #dataordie
Taren and our mates at ANSTO recently presented work at Q2EXAFS this week in Melbourne👩🔬🧑🔬👨🔬👩🏫🧑🏫👨🏫💃🕺🩻🩻. Way to represent @tarencataldo, the poster is looks good 😎😎. #conference #exafs #nuclearfuelcycle #phd #phdlife #dataordie
Taren and our mates at ANSTO recently presented work at Q2EXAFS this week in Melbourne👩🔬🧑🔬👨🔬👩🏫🧑🏫👨🏫💃🕺🩻🩻. Way to represent @tarencataldo, the poster is looks good 😎😎. #conference #exafs #nuclearfuelcycle #phd #phdlife #dataordie
Congrats to Kshitij and @zuby57 for completely their APRs 🥳🥳🗓️🤹♀️🤹🤹♂️😎. This should be the last time both gents will do a review, so a big congrats to being close to the end 🎉🍾. Onto bigger and better things 💪. #reviews #phdlife #phd #phdstudent #almostdone #hydrogen #hydrogenstorage #catalysis #biomass #dataordie
Congrats to Kshitij and @zuby57 for completely their APRs 🥳🥳🗓️🤹♀️🤹🤹♂️😎. This should be the last time both gents will do a review, so a big congrats to being close to the end 🎉🍾. Onto bigger and better things 💪. #reviews #phdlife #phd #phdstudent #almostdone #hydrogen #hydrogenstorage #catalysis #biomass #dataordie
We gone fishing yall 🍣🎣🐠🐟🐡!! Our recent work in Energy Advances, where we examine layered double hydroxides for uranium uptake from seawater, has been selected for a cover 💃🕺🤳. Thanks again to @zuby57 for leading the charge on the efforts, and the amazing @ella_maru studios for helping us again with the cover. #cover #layereddoublehydroxides #uranium #dopantengineering #sustainability #dataordie
We gone fishing yall 🍣🎣🐠🐟🐡!! Our recent work in Energy Advances, where we examine layered double hydroxides for uranium uptake from seawater, has been selected for a cover 💃🕺🤳. Thanks again to @zuby57 for leading the charge on the efforts, and the amazing @ella_maru studios for helping us again with the cover. #cover #layereddoublehydroxides #uranium #dopantengineering #sustainability #dataordie
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