About
Rui Tan is a senior lecturer across the departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Swansea university. He earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, specializing in material engineering and electrochemical engineering to tackle environmental and energy storage challenges. After his PhD, he worked as a Research Associate at Imperial College until 2023, and then joined the University of Warwick as an Assistant Professor.
He established his track record at renowned institutions including Peking University (2014-2017), Imperial College London (2017-2023), the University of Warwick (2023-2024) and Swansea University (2024-present), engineering materials and developing energy storage systems such as high-energy and electron-rich energy materials (e.g., FeS2, Li2FeSiO4), safe and high-temperature solid-state batteries, the first hydrophilic selective PIM membranes for long-life flow batteries, and scalable carbon-based current collectors for 5Ah and 10Ah non-flammable batteries. He has coauthored over 50 papers in high-impact journals, leading publications in notable journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Chemical Engineering, Angewandte Chemie, JACS, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Science, Carbon Energy, Battery Energy, Nano Energy, and Small Method.
Dr. Tan was awarded the Townend Prize at Imperial College and was part of the Functional Membrane and Energy Materials Group (Imperial College), which received the 2023 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize: Stephanie L Kwolek Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is MRSC, the member of the European Membrane Society, Early Career member of the Electrochemical Society. He is the editorial board membrane of Discover Electrochemistry, the Academic Editor of Chain (IEEE), the young editorial board member of Energy Materials, Rare Metals and Battery Energy. He was honoured as the 2023 Excellent Young Editorial Board Member by the journal Battery Energy, Wiley.