Current Members

The Hill Applied Porous Materials Team are brought together around a fascination in the fundamentals, applications and commercial usage of porous materials. With a broad range of backgrounds and research topics, we pursue science from atomistic understanding to pilot-scale applications testing.
Our diverse team includes specialists in:
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Physics and Mathematics
  • Systems and Electronic Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Biochemistry

Professor Matthew Hill
Professor and Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Australia
Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Manufacturing, Australia
Director, Monash Centre for Membrane Innovation
Director, ARC CREST Industry Transformational Research Hub.
office:  Room 127A Level 1, 20 Research Way, Clayton 
email: [email protected] | phone: +61 408 878 529, +61 3 9545 2841 
mail: Private Bag 33, Clayton South, VIC 3169, Australia

Research Scientists 

Dr. Kristina Konstas
Research Scientist
Porous Materials
PhD Organometallic Chemistry, Monash University
Dr. James Mardell 
Research Scientist
MOFs
PhD, Location
Dr. Ravichandar Babarao
Visiting Scientist
Computational Design of Advanced Materials
PhD Computational Chemistry, National University of Singapore
​Dr. Michael Batten
Senior Experimental Scientist
Circular Economics for Chemical Processes
​PhD Organometallic Chemistry, Location
Dr. Aaron W. Thornton
Senior Research Scientist
CTO MOFWORX
PhD Mathematics, University of Wollongong & CSIRO
Dr. Cara Doherty
CSIRO Team Leader
Porous Materials for Device Fabrication
PhD Physical Chemistry, The University of Melbourne
Dr. Muhammad Munir Sadiq
Research Engineer
Triggered Release Materials
PhD Materials Engineering, Monash University

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Ruhani Singh
Research Fellow
Bio-MOFs
PhD Nanomedicine, University of Western Australia
Dr. Stefanie Cincotta
Research Fellow
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
PhD Elec. and Comp. Systems Engineering, Monash University
Dr. Ashley Sutton
Research Fellow
Oxygen Capture MOFs
PhD Chemistry, University of Melbourne
Dr. Farnaz Zadehahmadi
Senior Research Fellow
Monash University
Dr. Hamidreza Mahdavi
Research Fellow
Polymer Recycling
PhD Chem. Bio. Engineering, Monash University
Dr. Hoseong Han
RESEARCH FELLOW

Organic and Polymeric membranes
PhD in Chem Engineering,
​University of Melbourne
Dr. Al Jumlat Ahmed
RESEARCH FELLOW

Organic and MOFs-based Thermoelectric
PhD Material Engineering
University of Wollongong
Dr. Wanqiao Liang
RESEARCH FELLOW

Transition metal sieving
​PhD Chem. Bio. Engineering
Monash University
​Dr. Declan McNamara
RESEARCH FELLOW

Lithium Sulphur Batteries
PhD Chem. Bio. Engineering
Monash University

Postgraduate Students

Laila Halim
Polymer recycling
B.Eng (Civil,Honours) & B.Sci (Materials), Monash University
Mostafa Tarek
Lithium Sulphur Batteries

M.Eng (Chemical)
​University Malaysia Pahang (UMP)
Sara Moghimian
Lithium Sulphur Batteries

M.Eng (Material Sci and Eng),
​ University of Isfahan
Ashwin Kishor Hatwar 
Dry Methane Reforming
 
B. Eng (Chemical)
IIT Kharagpur 
Mohammad Raihan Arfin
Electrified Chemical Processes 
​
M.Eng(Chemical) ​
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology
Yang Yang
Functional Composite Membranes

M.Eng (Environmental)
Guangzhou University
Rifky Pratama
Water-stable MOFs and MISA nanocomposite MOFs

M.Res (Green Chemistry)
Imperial College London

Undergraduate students

Mingfei Liu
​
Thermoelectric Material
B.Eng (Materials Science and Engineering)
Monash University
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