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 leading 6 industry-sponsored research projects on developing graphene-based products for industrial applications with  over ~2.0 million of industry funding as Principal investigator (Lead Chief Investigator). Our research is and also supported by ARC funding.

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

Postdoc/RA

  Dr Xiaojun (Carlos) Ren

Research Students

1. Tongxi Lin; 2. Zhijian Cao; 3. Yuchen (Viola) Yang; 

4. Jingxiao(Jenny) Lyu; 

5. Manisha Joshi; 

6. Yihan (Tess) Tian;

7. Zade Zheng 

Past Postdoc/RA 

Dr Yi You, Dr Jeaniffer Yap Dr Xiao Sui, Dr Yee Yee Khine, Tobias Foller,  Xinyue Wen ,   

Vanesa Quintano

Past Research Student

  Yi You, Xiaoheng Jin,   Xinyue Wen, Mingwei Zhang, Jialin Deng, Uttam Mittal, Xiaoyu Liu,  Jessie Deng, Osama Salim,   Shovon,  Tobias Foller Jenny Lyu, Fei Wang, Dali Ji,  Neven Zhai, Yang Wu

*Rakesh Joshi FRSC  is an Associate Professor and Theme Leader for Energy & Environment at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney. He joined UNSW as a Lecturer in 2015 after completing a Marie Curie International Fellowship with Nobel Laureate Sir Andre Geim at the University of Manchester. He holds  PhD in Semiconductor Nanotechnology from IIT Delhi, India

 Rakesh has supervised over 20 Research Scholars as Main  Supervisor at UNSW.