
July 2022

Ocean Cheung – Principle Investigator
Ocean is an associate professor at the Division of Nanotechnology and Functional Materials at Uppsala University, Sweden. Ocean grew up in the small town of Monmouth, UK. He holds a Master of Chemistry (MChem) degree from the University of Warwick, UK and a PhD in Materials Chemistry from Stockholm University, Sweden. His PhD work was carried out under the supervision of Prof. Niklas Hedin on the development of narrow pore zeolites and related materials for carbon dioxide sorption. After completing his PhD Ocean was a postdoc in Prof. Maria Strømme‘s group at Uppsala University. After another postdoc position at Heriot-Watt University, UK he returned to Uppsala University as a senior researcher. Ocean became associate professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Uppsala University. Ocean has received a number of prestigious awards including the “Swedish King Gustafs 50th Birthday Award for Sciences, Engineering and Environment“ in 2018 and the “Oscar Prize for young scientists“ in 2020

Michelle Åhlén – Post-doc researcher
Michelle Åhlén graduated with a master’s degree in chemical engineering and a PhD in Materials Science from Uppsala University, Sweden. Her PhD thesis focused on the development of framework porous materials for environmental applications . She is currently working on the synthesis and characterization of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) for gas storage and separation as well as catalysis.

Ribooga Chang – PhD student since 2019
Ribooga Chang graduated with an MSc from Gwanju institute of science and technology(GIST), South Korea. Her MSc work was on the control of calcium carbonate crystallisation and polymorphism for mineral carbonation of CCS technology. She is currently working on the synthesis and practical applications of various nano and mesoporous materials including calcium carbonate for gas separation, water treatment and drug delivery
Internship/Thesis students
Evelina Wiksten (MSc thesis, Uppsala University)
Previous group members
PhD
Dr. Maria Vall (PhD, 2015-2019)
Dr. Michelle Åhlén (PhD, 2017-2021)
Thesis/project students
Ao Gao (MSc thesis, 2016)
Philip Enerbo (MSc thesis, 2016)
Jonas Hultberg (MSc thesis, 2018)
Daniel Koivisto (MSc thesis, 2018)
Fenne de Kleijne (Degree project, 2018) – exchange student from The Netherlands
Oliver Horner (Degree project, 2019) – exchange student from Canada
Camille Serra (Degree project, 2019) – exchange student from France
Eveline Croket (Degree project, 2019) – exchange student from Belgium
Laura Pacoste (MSc thesis, 2019)
Rebecka Löfgren (MSc thesis, 2019)
Daniel Hedbom (MSc thesis, 2020-21)
Abbas Jafari (MSc thesis, 2020-21)
Oskar Hellman (MSc thesis, 2021)
Amir Al Abdallah (Polytech Marseille, France)
Romane Bonnans (Polytech Marseille, France)
Mathilde Croizat (Polytech Marseille, France)
Clara Grimaldi (Polytech Marseille, France)
Victor Lefèvre (Polytech Nantes, France)
Evelina Wiksten (Uppsala University)
Meghdad Hosseinzadegan (MSc thesis 2022, Uppsala University)
Ali Maghsoodpoor (MSc thesis 2022, Uppsala University)
Dhruva Deole (MSc thesis 2022, Uppsala University)
Ivan Armand (Polytech Marseille, France)
Teva Clairefond (Polytech Marseille, France)
Haruon Derbal (Polytech Marseille, France)
Martin Gabriele (Polytech Marseille, France)
Arthur Nicolas (Polytech Marseille, France)
Melina Rabot (Polytech Marseille, France)
Solene Ruocco (Polytech Marseille, France)
Tom Donadille (Polytech Marseille, France)
Quentin Lardit (Polytech Clermont-Ferrand, France)
Julian Martinez (ParisTech University, France)
About Us
Our research group works on the development of micro and mesoporous materials for a number of bio and environmental application. We are based at Uppsala University, Sweden