Rate My Professor Ying Toe

Dr. Cui Ying Toe is a Senior Lecturer in Chemical and Renewable Energy Engineering within the School of Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She earned her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of New South Wales in 2018 and her Bachelor of Engineering Honours from the University of Malaya. Following her PhD, she served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering at UNSW from March 2018 to December 2021. She held a brief Lecturer position at UNSW in early 2022 before taking up her current role as Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle from January 2022 onwards.

Dr. Toe's research centers on renewable energy conversion, with a focus on developing clean energy technologies for the sustainable production of chemicals and fuels. Her academic interests include waste-to-energy conversion, solar-to-chemical energy transformation, green hydrogen production, CO₂ reduction, ammonia synthesis, heterogeneous catalytic processes, life cycle assessment, techno-economic analysis, and circular economy strategies for waste valorization. Key publications encompass 'Ferroelectric Control of Photoelectrochemical Ammonia Oxidation Reaction' in Small (2026), 'Scalable solar-driven reforming of alcohol feedstock to H2 using Ni/Zn3In2S6 photocatalyst' in Chemical Engineering Journal (2025), 'Materials Advances in Photocatalytic Solar Hydrogen Production: Integrating Systems and Economics for a Sustainable Future' in Advanced Materials (2024), 'Solar driven ammonia synthesis with Co-TiOx and Ag nanowires enhanced Cu2ZnSnS4 photocathodes' in Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy (2024), 'Predicting the rates of photocatalytic hydrogen evolution over cocatalyst-deposited TiO2 using machine learning with active photon flux as a unifying feature' in EES Catalysis (2024), and 'Engineering defects in TiO2 for the simultaneous production of hydrogen and organic products' (2025). She has been awarded the GLOW 2025 Travel Award from National Technology University, Best Poster Award from UNSW (2021), and Future Women Leaders Conference Award from Monash University (2019). Her research has garnered over 5,000 citations, underscoring her influence in photocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis. Dr. Toe contributes to the editorial board of Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy and convenes the Master of Clean Energy program.