ABOUT
Dr Xuekun Lu is a Senior Lecturer in Green Energy in the School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London. He currently holds both an EPSRC Open Postdoctoral Fellowship and an EPSRC David Clarke Fellowship, and leads a research group focused on advancing next-generation high-energy-density silicon-based lithium-ion and solid state batteries through the integration of advanced manufacturing, multiscale 3D image-based modelling, multimodal operando imaging, and machine learning techniques. Before joining QMUL, he was a PDRA at UCL (2015-2022), where he contributed to the Faraday Institution’s Multiscale Modelling Project (2018-2022).
He has been delivering world-leading research in energy storage and conversion, signified by 65 total publications (h-index 32, citation>3600) and 16 first-authored papers including Nature Nanotechnology, two papers in Nature Communications, three papers in Energy & Environ. Sci. and one paper in Joule. Particularly, one of his papers in Nature Communications (10.1038/s41467-020-15811-x) is featured ESI Highly Cited Paper (citation > 570), selected as Editor’s Highlights, and became 2020 Top 50 Chemistry and Materials Sciences Articles; another Nature Communications paper (10.1038/s41467-023-40574-6) hits The Top 25 Chemistry and Materials Sciences Articles of 2023. His research output was frequently featured on the Annual Research Highlights of the Faraday Institution. He was awarded the prestigious Early Career Rayleigh Award by National Physical Laboratory of the UK in 2021 as a recognition of his work breakthroughs in overcoming the longstanding challenge in full-scale 3D imaging and reconstruction of the heterogeneous battery electrodes. He is also a Reviewer of the EPSRC Open Postdoctoral Fellowship, and of more than 20 top-ranking scientific journals including Science Advances, Nature Communications, Advanced Energy Materials, Cell Reports Physical Science, etc.