Minju Thomas, from CNR-ITAE, Messina is a post-doctoral fellow in Fuel Processing Materials and Technologies group (FPMAT). She obtained her Ph.D. in 2019 in Chemical Science from Academy of Scientific and Innovative research (AcSIR), India. She carried out the research under UGC-Junior Research Fellowship in Chemical Science at CSIR-National institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), Kerala. During her PhD, she studied porous materials from MOFs and graphitic carbons for energy generation and storage applications. In 2019, she joined at University of Calabria as a Research Fellow, where she explored the possibility of storing hydrogen in porous graphitic carbon nitrides and high surface area mesoporous materials. In 2022, she joined at CNR-ITAE as a postdoctoral fellow and has been active in developing electrode materials and prototypes of flexible supercapacitors. Her research interests include the molecular-level modification of catalytic materials for energy generation and storage applications. In 2023, she began working with FPMAT group in ANDREAH project. She is developing structured catalysts using Triply Periodic Minimal surface (TPMS) Ni-alloy supports for ammonia decomposition reaction and make them suitable in membrane-based reactors for long-term hydrogen generation. She is also involved in synthesis of new catalyst formulations and their kinetic modelling to better understand the reaction mechanisms at low temperatures. You can download her last Poster here Post navigation M9 PTC Meeting Meet our Researcher: Valentina
