Tongwei Xu

Tongwei is a third-year PhD student in the Chemical Engineering department at Columbia University. Her research in Dr. Alan West’s group focuses on investigating electrochemical-mediated leaching techniques for critical mineral extraction. A specific focus of her research is characterizing the leaching kinetics of mineral concentrate in redox-mediated reagents, understanding the mineral conversion mechanism during leaching using various material characterization techniques, and developing electrochemical processes for reagent regeneration. Tongwei received her MS in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and BS in New Energy Materials & Devices from Soochow University, China.