Minfei Fei
Email: mf689@cam.ac.uk, MCG webmaster
Education
Ph.D., Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
M.S., Materials Science & NanoEngineering, Rice University
B.Eng. (Outstanding Graduate Award), New Energy Science & Engineering, Nanjing University
Undergraduate Visiting Scholar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Biography
Minfei received his Ph.D. with No Corrections under the supervision of Professors R Vasant Kumar, Cate Ducati, and Manish Chhowalla FREng. His PhD work was focused on addressing next-generation energy challenges to decarbonize society. He is interested in understanding the fundamental mechanisms in rechargeable batteries, especially the correlation between battery interface physicochemical properties and device-level performance.
Prior to Cambridge, he worked with Professor Pulickel Ajayan for his master's study at Rice University. He obtained a Bachelor's degree with Outstanding Graduate Award (the only recipient in the program cohort) from Nanjing University, working with Professor Jianguo Liu and Professor Peng Wang. Minfei was an Undergraduate Visiting Scholar at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, working with Dr. Scott Chambers, Dr. Chongmin Wang and PhD candidate Yang He (now Department Chair in Materials Science at USTB, China). Recently, Minfei has worked closely with Professor Jia Zhu (NJU), Professor Guoran Li (Nankai), and Professor Kai Xi (Xi'an JiaoTong), to investigate battery interface.
Minfei's PhD studies, till now, has led to 18 studentships & awards at college and university levels or above. He has delivered several invited talks at universities or conferences, has received several Best Poster Awards/Best Student Talks at major international battery conferences, including ECS, ICNaB, IBA, etc. Minfei is an independent reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals and also an independent PI for two grants. He also has rich teaching and mentoring experiences (10+ students) and 4 patents.
Minfei's PhD thesis "Molecular-level interphase design for sustainable batteries" was passed without corrections, making him one of the very few students in the whole Department to have ever achieved this in the past decades.
Minfei is open to discussions, consultancy, and research collaborations.