Ian Billinge

Ian is a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth & Environmental Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York.

He currently researches high salinity desalination and ion-specific separations in the laboratory of Prof. Ngai Yin Yip.

He received a MS in Environmental Engineering from Columbia University in 2021 and a BS in Physics from Yale University in 2019. 

Email: ian.billinge@columbia.edu

Publications

Shah, K.M.*, Billinge, I.H.*, Chen, X., Fan, H., Huang, Y., Winton, R.K., and Yip, N.Y., "Drivers, Challenges, and Emerging Technologies for Desalination of High-Salinity Brines: A Critical Review", Desalination, 2022 (538), 115827.

Fan, H., Huang, Y., Billinge, I.H., Bannon, S.M., Geise, G.M., and Yip, N.Y., "Counterion Mobility in Ion-Exchange Membranes: Spatial Effect and Valency-Dependent Electrostatic Interaction", ACS ES&T Engineering, 2022 (2), 1274–1286.

Boo, C., Qi, H., Billinge, I.H., Shah, K.M., Fan, H., and Yip, N.Y., "Thermomorphic Hydrophilicity Base-Induced Precipitation for Effective Descaling of Hypersaline Brines", ACS ES&T Engineering, 2021 (1), 1351–1359.

Boo, C., Billinge, I.H., Chen, X., Shah, K.M., and Yip, N.Y., "Zero Liquid Discharge of Ultrahigh Salinity Brines with Temperature Swing Solvent Extraction", Environmental Science & Technology, 2020 (54), 9124–9131.

*Equal contribution

Expertise

Water treatment

Solvent extraction desalination

Conventional water treatment

Reverse osmosis

Electrodialysis

Characterization

Scattering

Infrared spectroscopy

Atomic force microscopy

Teaching

Ian is an experienced teacher, with years of experience teaching subjects such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry.

At Columbia University, Ian was a teaching assistant for A Better Planet By Design, Alternative Energy Resources, and Introductory Physics: Electromagnetism and Optics

Ian currently takes a small amount of private tutoring work. If interested, please inquire at ianbillinge.teaching at gmail dot com