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DrFangfang Chen

Senior Research Fellow

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/Institute for Frontier Materials

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  • Senior Research Fellow
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/Institute for Frontier Materials
  • +61 3 924 45114 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Dr. Chen is an experienced research supervisor and educator. She has successfully supervised five PhD students to completion and is currently supervising three more. In addition to her doctoral supervision, she has mentored numerous Master’s and Bachelor’s students through research internships. Dr. Chen is dedicated to interdisciplinary training, regularly teaching computational methods and scientific programming to experimental students and postdoctoral researchers, helping them integrate modeling approaches into their research.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Design and Characterization of Ionic Liquid Electrolytes and Interfaces for Alkali Metal Batteries
    Sreehari Batni Ravindranath - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Polymeric ionic liquid for battery electrolytes
    Kewei Cai - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Electrolyte design for high-performance, sustainable sodium batteries.
    Priya SHARMESH - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Development and Optimization of Poly(Ionic Liquids) as Electrolytes for Sodium Batteries.
    Yuchen ZHANG - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Design and Understanding of Non-Fluorinated Electrolytes Utilizing Novel Ion Structures
    Wern Huay Mah - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Molecular Dynamics Study of Ion Dynamics in Ionomer Electrolytes
    Xingyu Chen - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Physics of the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface in Ionic Liquids
    Srdan Begic - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Molecular Modelling Studies of an Organic Ionic Plastic Crystal for Gas Absorption and Electrolyte Applications
    Vinay Shekhar Kandagal - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Molecular behaviour of electrode/ionic liquid electrolyte interface for rechargeable batteries
    Dmitrii Rakov - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Understanding Structural, Dynamics, and Temperature-Dependent Phase Behavior of Ammonium-based Organic Ionic Plastic Crystals
    Nanditha Sirigiri - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2023