Rate My Professor Gurwinder Singh

Dr. Gurwinder Singh is a Research Fellow at the School of Engineering and a Casual Academic at the School of Science, University of Newcastle, Australia, affiliated with the Global Innovative Center for Advanced Nanomaterials (GICAN) in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of South Australia. Over a decade of experience in materials science underpins his contributions to sustainable energy and environmental solutions, including scaling carbon capture materials from milligram to kilogram scales and designing a semi-pilot plant for CO₂ capture. His research interests encompass adsorption, batteries, CO₂ capture and conversion, carbon nitride, catalysis, chemical activation, energy storage, gas adsorption, high surface area materials, materials science, mesoporous and microporous materials, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, physical activation, porous activated biocarbon, and supercapacitors. Specializations include nanomaterials (50%), carbon capture engineering excluding sequestration (20%), and electrochemical energy storage and conversion (30%).

Singh's career at the University of Newcastle includes roles as Research Fellow at the College of Engineering, Science and Environment (2019–2022), Research Associate (2018–2019), and Senior Research Assistant (2019) in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, School of Engineering. He has supervised 10 PhD students to completion, currently co-supervises 11, secured $4.27 million in funding, and boasts 99 publications, 10,200 citations, h-index of 49, and 14 highly cited articles per Web of Science. Key publications feature 'Carbon nitride incorporated nanoporous carbon nanoarchitectonics derived from Victorian brown coal for supercapacitor and oxygen reduction reaction' (2026, Carbon), 'Nanoarchitectonics of Porous Carbons Templated by Inorganic Metal Oxides and Alkali Metal Salts for Energy and Environmental Applications' (2026, Advanced Science), and 'Homogeneous Friedel–Crafts Alkylation' (2023, book chapter). Awards comprise the Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha Silver Star Award (2024), GICAN Early Career Research Awards (2022, 2019), and Agilent Award Runner Up (2017). He teaches postgraduate materials science courses on NMR, TGA, gas capture, water purification, and hydrothermal reactions, and appeared in an SBS Australia interview on climate change.