A/Pr Lei Ge

| Name | A/Pr Lei Ge | 
|---|---|
| Email Address | lei.ge@unisq.edu.au | 
| Job Title | Associate Professor (Nano Materials) | 
| Qualifications | PhD Qld | 
| Department | School of Engineering | 
| Affiliations | Centre for Future Materials | 
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2989-0329 | 
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Employment
| Position | Organisation | From | To | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Associate Professor | University of Southern Queensland | 2023 | 
Expertise
Clean energy catalysis, electrolysis, Chemical Engineering, porous materials, unconventional energy extraction
Teaching
MEC4104 Renewable Energy Technologies
Fields of Research
- 340601. Catalysis and mechanisms of reactions
 - 400401. Carbon capture engineering (excl. sequestration)
 - 400409. Separation technologies
 - 401602. Composite and hybrid materials
 
PhD
Qld
2013
Supervision Interests
Gas diffusion electrodes for CO2 electrochemical conversion, advanced membrane separation, CO2 capture, cathodes for solid oxide fuel cells.
Current Supervisions
| Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Elimination of defects in polycrystalline membranes | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 | 
| Negative thermal expansion electrocatalysts | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 | 
| Anti-coking electrocatalysts for natural gas reforming | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 | 
| AI-powered Design and Optimisation of PolyFeed/PolyGeneration Plant to Convert Coal/Biomass into Sustainable Low-Carbon Fuels | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2025 | 
| Techno-economic Analysis (TEA) of carbon dioxide capture integrated electrolysis | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2025 | 
| Sustainable Resource Utilisation of High Hardness and High Salinity Groundwater by Advanced Membrane Separation Process | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2025 | 
| Engineering Lignite-Based Slow-Release Fertiliser: Surface Activation, Nutrient Loading, and Release Kinetics | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 | 
Completed Supervisions
| Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollow fibre gas diffusion electrode for eletrocatalysis | Associate | Doctoral | 2021 | 
| Morphology control of metal-organic frameworks for adsorption and catalysis | Associate | Doctoral | 2021 | 
| The effects of surface chemistry, mineral content and effective pressure on relative permeability using artificial Australian coal cores | Associate | Doctoral | 2019 | 
| Foam structured carbon monoliths for gas adsorption | Associate | Doctoral | 2018 | 
| MOFs-based Mixed Matrix Membranes for Gas Separation | Associate | Doctoral | 2017 | 
| Development of flow-through microtubular gas-diffusion electrodes for electrochemical CO2 reduction | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2025 | 
| Flow-through Ag Hollow Fibre Gas Diffusion Electrodes for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 | 
| Development of perovskite materials for electrocatalysis | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 | 
| Project title | Details | Year | 
|---|---|---|
| ARC Future Fellow (FT220100166) | Advanced Gas Diffusion Electrodes For Electrochemical Manufacturing | 2023 | 
| ARC linkage (LP200100420) | Low-density high-performance proppants for hydraulic fracturing process | 2021 | 
| ARC linkage (LP160101729) | Electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide to formic acid | 2018 | 
| ARC linkage (LP160101531) | Selective wellbore coatings to control fines damage in coal seam gas wells | 2018 | 
| ARC Discovery (DP160103896) | Relative Permeability in Coal | 2016 | 
| UQ-Hesteel industry project | Developing a full-chain process integrated CO2 capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies with iron- and steel-making for Hesteel | 2016 | 
| QGC-BG/Shell industry project | Stress and stain relationship in coal for predicting coal seam gas production | 2016 | 
| Item reviewed | Year | 
|---|---|
| Regular reviewer for Angewandte Chemie, Nature Communications, Applied Catalysis B: Environment, Advanced Materials, Journal of Material Chemistry, Journal of Membrane Science, ACS Applied Materials&Interfaces, AIChE Journal, Chemical engineering Journal, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Composite Part B et al. | 2017 |