About us

UNSW Team Graphene  

We are a team of creative scientists and engineers exploring new ways to develop applications of graphene and other 2D materials. 

Team leader A/Prof Rakesh Joshi is currently leading 6 industry-sponsored research projects on developing graphene-based products for industrial applications. 

Rakesh has more ~2.0 million of industry funding as Principal investigator (Lead Chief Investigator) and over $5 million as Chief Investigator (CI) on ARC projects. 

We have  multiple lab-scale membrane fabrication and testing facilities, industrial-scale membranes fabrication and testing facilities.

Postdoc/RA

Vanesa Quintano 

 Tobias Foller

 Xinyue Wen   

Research Students

1. Dali Ji; 2.Fei Wang; 3.Xiaojun Ren; 4.Tongxi Lin;         5.Neven Zhai; 6.Yang Wu;7. Hongzhe Chen; 8. Zhijian Cao; 9. Yuchen (Viola) Yang

Past Postdoc/RA 

Dr Yi You, Dr Jeaniffer Yap Dr Xiao Sui, Dr Yee Yee Khine 

Past Research Student

  Yi You, Xiaoheng Jin,   Xinyue Wen, Mingwei Zhang, Jialin Deng, Uttam Mittal, Xiaoyu Liu,  Jessie Deng, Osama Salim,   Shovon,  Jenny Lyu

*Rakesh Joshi FRSC is an Associate Professor and   

Theme Leader Energy & Environment at the   

Materials Science and Engineering School of UNSW Sydney. Before joining UNSW as a Lecturer (Academic Staff) in 2015, Rakesh was a Marie Curie International Fellow with Nobel Laureate Sir Andre Geim at the University of Manchester. He has a PhD in Semiconductor Nanotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.