Power and Energy Engineering

Qiong Cai was trained as a Materials Engineer at Tsinghua University (China), and obtained her PhD at University of Edinburgh in Chemical Engineering in 2007. She then spent five years working as a Postdoc Researcher at Imperial College London, specialised in Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Devices including Fuel Cells, Electrolysers and Batteries. She became a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Surrey in September 2012 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in April 2016. She currently holds an EPSRC grant (EP/M027066/1) on developing sodium ion battery for grid energy storage and a flexible grant from the SUPERGEN H2FC Hub on developing low cost materials for polymer membrane fuel cells. Her research groups are working at the interface of materials science and electrochemical engineering, using modelling and simulations combined with experiment for the design of materials for applications in electrochemical energy devices.