Group Leader
Stephen Skinner joined Imperial College in 1998 and was promoted to Professor in 2014. His research interests are in materials for new energy technologies and are primarily concerned with the chemical and physical properties of solid oxide cell electrolytes and electrodes and encompasses both the electrical and structural characteristics of materials. His group use a range of advanced techniques including isotopic labelling, secondary ion mass spectrometry, low energy ion scattering and both synchrotron and neutron diffraction and scattering to probe the structure and dynamics of materials.
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Visiting Researcher
Juntae is a visiting researcher in Professor Stephen Skinner group. He is an assistant professor at Department of Applied Chemistry at Kyushu University, Japan. His research interests focus on electrocatalyst materials for electrochemical energy applications such as solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOEC), low temperature CO2 reduction, Zn-air battery.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Yidong started his PhD in the Skinner lab in October 2020 after obtaining his MSc degree from Imperial College London. His research will be based on the development of new niobate oxide ion/proton conductors.
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Sivakkumaran is a Research Assistant and a member of Prof. Stephen Skinner's group. He collaborates with LiNa Energy on developing a fundamental understanding of the Sodium Metal|NASICON interface in Molten-State Sodium-ion Batteries.
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Yuheng is a Research Assistant and his research centres on mitigating degradation and improving durability in metal-supported SOCs. His work specifically focuses on evaluating changes in electrochemically active interfaces.
PhD student
Kehan joined Prof. Stephen Skinner's group as a PhD student in October 2021. He will focus on exploring the protonic conduction of rare earth tetragonal (LaNbO4) solid solution series via experiments and simulations.
PhD student
Chenyang started his PhD in 2021 after finishing bachelor and master’s degree at Imperial College London. His current research focuses on discovering the diffusional mechanism of protonic conducting solid oxide fuel cell, by combining various techniques such as quasi-elastic neutron scattering and DFT calculation.
PhD student
Kit is a 3rd year PhD student and his focus is on gaining a fundamental understanding to the thermodynamic, structural and chemical properties that govern ionic conductivity in halide-type solid electrolytes.
PhD student
Dario is a 1st year PhD student and his research involves SOFC cathode material made and invented by Ceres Power. His work will give a better insight into SOFCs structure, electrochemical properties and the relationship between the two.
PhD student
Jason is a 1st PhD student at the Department of Materials started in December 2022 under the supervision of Prof Stephen Skinner. His research focuses on the degradation mechanism and durability performance of low-temperature and low-power proton-conducting SOFC .
PhD student
Nawal is a 1st year PhD student in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London, under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Skinner and Dr. Sivaprakash Sengodan. Her research will be based on evaluating the potential of high entropy Ruddlesden-Popper oxides as solid oxide cell electrodes.
PhD student
Chufeng joined Prof Skinner’s group as a PhD student in Oct 2023 and his research focuses on using nanoscale characterisation techniques to understand surface/interfacial phenomena in layered double perovskite materials, which serve as novel candidates for H-SOFC/H-SOEC cathodes.
PhD student
Yuming started her PhD in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London in 2023, under the supervision of Professor Stephen Skinner. She currently focuses on degradation and lifetime of solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) air electrodes in high concentrations of steam.
PhD student
Mingxuan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London under the supervision of Professor Stephen Skinner. His research focuses on Ruddlesden-Popper phase materials, employing pulsed laser deposition (PLD) to grow thin films and investigates oxygen transport mechanisms using isotope exchange and secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS).
PhD student
Zheng is a first-year PhD in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London under the supervision of Professor Stephen Skinner. His goal is to mitigate the degradation issue in long term high current density performance of solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC).