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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Postdoctoral Research Associate
Mudasir is a Research Associate in the Department of Materials working on proton oxide conductors with a particular focus on the surface exchange and diffusion of protonic species to understand the ion transport kinetics by using state-of-the-art surface analysis techniques.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Arim is an Imperial College Research Associate in the Materials Department. Her research focuses on the development of electrode and electrolyte materials for energy conversion and storage devices, especially for solid oxide fuel cells, protonic ceramic fuel cells, and metal-air/all solid-state batteries.
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.
PhD student
Sivakkumaran is a fourth-year PhD student 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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.