Rate My Professor Khadijeh Paymooni

Dr. Khadijeh Paymooni serves as a CIMR Research Associate in the School of Engineering at the University of Newcastle. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Newcastle, where her doctoral research combined chemical engineering and materials science to develop and characterize perovskite membranes for oxygen separation, with a focus on their integration into a Chemical Looping Air Separation Process. She previously obtained a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran. Paymooni's research specializations include membrane technology, renewable energy technologies, energy storage, low emission technologies, gas separation, bioenergy, and carbon capture technologies. Her fields of research encompass separation technologies, chemical and thermal processes in energy and combustion, and chemical engineering more broadly. She is proficient in advanced analytical techniques such as gas chromatography, EDS-SEM, XRD, TGA, FTIR, high-pressure TGA, microfluidics, and 3D printing. Additionally, she engages in teaching chemical engineering students on topics related to future energy fuels, low emission and carbon capture technologies, and the global deployment of renewable energy resources.

Paymooni contributes to high-impact projects at the BHP Centre for Sustainable Steelmaking Research and the Centre for Ironmaking Materials Research. Notable grants include her role as an investigator on the Electric Smelting of Australian Hematite-Goethite DRI project, funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency with $2,938,049 from 2024 to 2029; leading a $25,000 CSIRO project in 2024 on evaluating Australian hematite goethite fines under hydrogen reducing environments; and serving as an investigator on a $150,000 BHP Billiton Marketing Asia project on Hydrogen DRI Production from 2022 to 2023, contributing to over $3 million in total research funding. Key publications feature 'Electrode Smelting of Hydrogen-Reduced Hematite–Goethite at Laboratory Scale' (2026, co-authored with Garlick C et al.), 'Sticking in Shaft Furnace and Fluidized Bed Ironmaking Processes: A Comprehensive Review Focusing on the Effect of Coating Materials' (2024, co-authored with Wang R et al.), 'Feasibility study of LSCF5582 membrane integration into a nitrogen based chemical looping air separation process' (2017), and 'Oxygen adsorption and desorption characteristics of LSCF5582 membranes for oxygen separation applications' (2017). She has produced 25 journal articles and 9 conference papers.