Virgil Andrei

January outreach: DJ or starting a boy band? Why not both! 🎵

Introducing prospective students to artificial leaves at our Materials Exposition open house, and then celebrating our stellar NTU community at MSExtravaganza 2026! ✨

DJ journey continued with 3 more campus gigs: now we got visuals! 😎

Over the past couple of weeks, I had the pleasure to present at the MRS-J Meeting in Yokohama, catch up with Prof. Qian Wang in Nagoya University, and give a keynote lecture at ICCCU Conference in Bengaluru! 🌏

And that’s a wrap for 2025, Happy Holidays! 🎉

More side quests: Singapore Half Marathon - 02:20:45
YoY: -80% practice, +9% weight, -11% speed, +28% overall rank gain. So, it's not the lack of training or delicious food, but... humidity, of course 😅
#SCSM2025

Our first year-end dinner to celebrate great science, a successful semester and the end of exams at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Time for a well deserved break, and we'll get right back to it in January! 💪
Onward AndreiLab! 😉 #majulah

It was a pleasure to showcase our research at the #Photo & #Electro #Catalysis Symposium in #Nankai University! Many thanks to Jingshan Luo for the amazing hospitality and bringing together this excellent line-up of speakers, including our own Singapore delegation with Lydia Wong and Yanwei Lum! 🤩

Topics available
Artificial leaves: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/362024
Photocatalysis: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/362032

More info
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Feeling #FOMO (fear of missing out)? Don’t, this could be you! 😏 Join our group for a fully-funded PhD studentship in #solar #fuels starting Aug ‘26. Email your CV to virgil.andrei@ntu.edu.sg! ☀️

Deadlines
31 Dec '25: Nanyang President's Graduate Scholarship
31 Jan '26: NTU Research Scholarships

Let science be fun! 🎵

Very grateful to the graduate clubs at NTU for the opportunity to DJ at their Halloween party! What started at small College events in Cambridge, now turned into my first official gig! 🎧

Next, I will need to headline Marquee SG within 5 years for my #PartyProf tenure! 😂

Now that the @nanoge.org #MATSUS25 Fall Meeting concluded, join our symposium on #photocatalysis for #solar fuel and chemical #synthesis next March in Barcelona!
#MATSUSSpring26 #PhotoSynth

Oral abstract deadline: 24 Nov 2025

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Delighted to be back at the @nanoge.org #MATSUS25 Fall Meeting in Valencia! Join my talk on Thursday 10am in the #PecVal symposium to learn more about our research on #perovskite driven #solar #chemistry and opportunities available at #NTU Singapore! ☀️⚡

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Research Fellow (Photo(electro)catalysis) The School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) provides a vibrant and nurturing environment for staff and students to carry out inter-disciplinary research in key areas such as Computational Ma...

Also thank you for all the interest in our fully-funded #postdoctoral #fellowship! The position is still open, so feel free to apply. Please note that we are seeking complementary expertise in #light-driven systems and/or #semiconductor synthesis.
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Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship (PPF) The PPF at NTU Singapore offers early-career researchers from around the world the chance to pursue independent research. This prestigious fellowship is designed to prepare fellows for academic appoin...

Five Wallenberg-NTU #Presidential #Postdoctoral #Fellowships are available between NTU Singapore and WASP Sweden for research with an #AI flavour! Feel free to contact us for potential projects!
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Singapore side quests: our University of #Cambridge alumni team beat University of #Oxford in the Row for Hope 2025 boat race! 🚣 #Nanyang Technological University Singapore team also won against National University of Singapore - overall great day for #rowing! 😁

(videos below)

AndreiLab @NTU Singapore is live! 🎉 These Legends are going to rock the #solar #fuels field! ☀️⚡

Introducing our stars! 😁 Left to right: Soh Li Qi (URECA), Chow Shao Heng (FYP), Cheng Zhifan (FYP), Eason Tan (URECA), Russell Tham (URECA)

It was great to catch up with friends at the #solar #fuels conference in Newcastle and in St John's College, Cambridge last week! Far too many pics, but here are a few. Already in full NTU Singapore gear! 😁

Our recent alumnus @virgilandrei.bsky.social, now Assistant Professor at NTU Singapore, presenting an overview of his work on #PEC devices developed through years of PhD and postdoctoral research in our lab 💪💪☀️⚡️

@rsc.org #ISF2025

I look forward to catching up with the #solar #fuels community at #ISF in Newcastle! I will present a talk on Wednesday 11:50am and an ECR poster on Monday evening. Pass by if you wish to learn more about research opportunities at NTU Singapore!

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Photosystem II‐Carbon Nitride Photoanodes for Scalable Biophotoelectrochemistry A spray-freeze method is developed to fabricate large-area (up to 33 cm2) macroporous carbon nitride photoanodes integrated with photosystem II enzymes for biophotoelectrochemical systems. The photoa...

Scalability meets biophotoelectrocatalysis with spray coated carbon nitride – PSII photoanodes! ☀️ Grateful to contribute to this paper in Advanced Materials; great team effort, and very well deserved by Huayang Zhang and Wenjie Tian!

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

3) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Postdoctoral Fellowships (deadline: 10 September 2025)
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
More info: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-op...

2) NTU AI-for-X Postdoctoral Fellowship (deadline: 31 October 2025)
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Apply here: apps.ntu.edu.sg/TRACS_ui/wel...

Research Fellow (Photo(electro)catalysis) The School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) provides a vibrant and nurturing environment for staff and students to carry out inter-disciplinary research in key areas such as Computational Ma...

Join our team for a #postdoc #fellowship at NTU Singapore! ☀️ Multiple opportunities available: 👇

1) Research Fellowship in Photo(electro)catalysis
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Apply here: ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...

We have 2 fully-funded PhD studentships available at NTU Singapore from Jan '26. Do you wish to explore disruptive solar fuel technologies? Email your CV to virgil.andrei@ntu.edu.sg! ☀️
1) euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/362024
2) euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/362032

More info: dr.ntu.edu.sg/entities/per...

Congratulations to one of the most affectionate members of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social 🥳

You'll be missed @virgilandrei.bsky.social! Best of luck for your new start as an Assistant Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore ☀️🔥

With that said, I'm delighted to announce that I am starting a Nanyang Assistant Professorship in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at NTU Singapore. Thank you Nanyang Technological University for believing in my ideas. We've got work to do! 🔥

Farewell for now Cambridge. I tried my best. You'll never know how much I loved you.

Thank you @stjohnscollege.bsky.social for all support, friendships and advices! I could not wish for a better place to develop. I knew you were great, but you surpassed all expectations! ❤️

a photo of the award recipients

Congratulations to the award recipients at the Chemical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology(@rsc-cnn.bsky.social)‬ Early Career Symposium in London, UK. These awards were supported by our Nanoscale journals and you can read more about our the winners below🏆 🎉 blogs.rsc.org/nr/2025/05/0...

Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf That Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals Researchers built a device made of perovskite and copper that mimics a green leaf.

🌿 What if a leaf could do more than photosynthesize? This artificial leaf uses copper nanoflowers + perovskite crystals to turn CO₂ into C₂—used in plastics, jet fuel & more.

Built on 20+ yrs of collaboration science!
@molecularfoundry.lbl.gov @caltech.edu