Rate My Professor Mi Tian

Professor Mi Tian serves as Professor of Sustainable Hydrogen Energy and Deputy Head of Department in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath. She earned her PhD in Hydrogen Energy from the University of East Anglia in 2015, with a focus on Mg-based composites, porous materials, and Mg-C composites for sustainable energy applications. Her research centers on hydrogen energy storage, including metal hydrides, porous materials, metal-organic frameworks, clathrate hydrates, and neutron scattering techniques to advance materials for efficient hydrogen uptake and release under practical conditions.

Affiliated with the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems and the Centre for Integrated Materials, Processes & Structures, Mi Tian has progressed from postdoctoral researcher to her current leadership roles at the University of Bath. She leads as principal investigator on EPSRC-funded projects such as Near-room Temperature Solid-state Hydrogen Storage (2025-2027) and contributes to initiatives like GW SHIFT and UK-HyRES as Co-Director. Notable publications include the review 'Hydrate-Based H2 Storage with Porous Materials as Heterogeneous Promoters: State of the Art and Challenges' in Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2025, 10 citations) and 'Mechanochemical Dual-Metal Modification of CuBTC Metal–Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Hydrogen Storage' in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2025). She received the 2019 Ede and Ravenscroft Research Staff Prize for her presentation on engineering porous materials for sustainable energy and the EPSRC Women in Engineering Ambassador award in 2023. Her contributions support the UK's hydrogen economy by improving energy storage for grid-scale applications, carbon emission reduction, and energy security.