Siyuan joined the Cooper group in Jan. 2021 as a PhD student in the Porous Materials for Challenging Separations (Computational) project.

Siyuan obtained his first PhD degree in Chemistry in 2020 from University of Liverpool under the supervision of Dr Lifeng Ding. He has experiences in molecular modelling of gas adsorption and separation in porous materials. He is focusing on the material discovery for challenging gas separations.