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 

Research Students

1.Xiaojun Ren; 2.Tongxi Lin; ;  3. Hongzhe Chen; 4. Zhijian Cao; 5. Yuchen (Viola) Yang; 6. Jingxiao(Jenny) Lyu; 7. Zixuan(Cloris) Xu; 8.Manisha Joshi

Past Postdoc/RA 

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

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 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. 

 Rakesh Joshi has supervised  over 20 Research Students (10 PhDs and 10 master's by research) as Main  Supervisor at UNSW.