Binjian Nie BEng MEng PHD FHEA AMIChemE AMRSC

Dr Binjian Nie obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2019. He worked as a Research Fellow since 2017 and then as a T-ERA Senior Research Fellow from Energy Research Accelerator before joining Oxford in 2022. He holds a BSc and MEng degree in Chemical Engineering, followed by three years of Chemical Process Engineering industry experience before starting his PhD in 2015.

Dr Nie has been leading the Energy Storage and Energy Carriers group, working on energy conversion and management using thermal, chemical, and thermochemical energy storage methodologies which can match energy supply and demand, exploit variable renewable (solar and wind) energy sources, produce carbon-neutral and sustainable chemicals and fuels, increase the overall efficiency of the energy system, and reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. His work on energy storage materials, devices, and systems has been granted several Patents. Dr Nie works closely with industry, his work on clean energy conversion and management has been commercially applied in industrial decarbonization, district heating, clean cooling et al.

• Large-scale Energy Storage using Carbon-neutral and Sustainable Chemicals.

• Chemical Process Engineering and Synergistic Reactors for Net-zero.

• Renewable Energy Conversion and Management.

• Industry, Heating, and Cooling Decarbonization.

• 2022 Highly commended award for Nicklin Medal from IChemE.

• 2021 PERCAT Career Development Competition Award.

• 2020 EPSRC Supergen Energy Storage ECR Award.

• 2019 Outstanding Achievement/Energy/Research Project Awards, IChemE Global Awards.

• 2019 Lead researcher of Outstanding Product Award, CHINA HI-TECH Fair.

We are open to supervising research students with a multidisciplinary background including chemical engineering, catalysts, thermal engineering, and materials science who are interested in renewable energy conversion and management, chemical energy storage of renewables, solid hydrogen storage, sustainable fuels production, industry and heating/cooling decarbonization.