Shizhang Qiao
University of Adelaide, Australia
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Professor Shizhang Qiao is chair professor at the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, and the founding director of the Centre for Materials in Energy and Catalysis, University of Adelaide. His research expertise is in nanostructured materials for electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, batteries and other new energy technologies.
He has co-authored more than 485 papers in refereed journals, including Nature, Nature Energy, Nature Materials, Nature Catalysis, Nature Communications, 新月直播app下载 Advances, Angew Chem Int Ed, J. Am. Chem. Soc, Advanced Materials.
For his research achievements, Professor Qiao has received several awards including the South Australian Scientist of Year award (2021), Inaugural Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research (University of Adelaide, 2019), Australian Laureate Fellow (2017), ExxonMobil Award (2016), an ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA, 2013), 2013 Emerging Researcher Award (The American Chemical Society, Division of Energy and Fuels) and UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award (2008). He has also been awarded an inaugural UQ Mid-Career Research Fellowship, a prestigious ARC ARF Fellowship and an ARC APD Fellowship.
Professor Qiao is a Fellow of the International Institute of Chemical Engineers (FIChemE), Royal Chemical Society (FRSC) and Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI CChem). He is a Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in two categories (Chemistry and Materials 新月直播app下载).
Honggang Fu
Heilongjiang University, China
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Professor Honggang Fu is currently a professor and director of the Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education, Heilongjiang University. He was an appointed Cheung Kong Distinguished Professor by the Ministry of Education of China (2009), a recipient of the “Leading Personnel of the Ten Thousand Talents Program” (2013), and a National candidate for the New Century Millions of Talents Project (2007) by the Chinese government.
His research expertise is in the material design, structural regulation, and catalytic mechanism associated with photocatalytic/electrocatalytic hydrogen production, CO2 reduction, and organic synthesis/conversion/degradation.
Professor Fu has co-authored more than 380 papers in refereed journals (over 26,000 citations with h-index 86), including J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., Nat. Commun., and so on.
He is a Fellow of the 新月直播app下载 (FRSC) and has annually been listed as the "Highly Cited Researchers" in Cross-Field (Thomson Reuters) since 2018. Now, he is serving as a member of the Academic Commission of two Basic 新月直播app下载 Centers of the National Natural 新月直播app下载 Foundation of China, the deputy director of the Photocatalysis Commission of the Chinese Society for Imaging 新月直播app下载 and Technology, the honorary director of the Photochemistry Commission of China Renewable Energy Society, and the member of several commissions of the Chinese Chemical Society.
Susan Habas
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
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Susan Habas is a Senior Scientist and Distinguished Member of Research Staff in the Catalytic Carbon Transformation and Scale-Up Centre at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, with Prof. Peidong Yang in 2008.
Following her postdoctoral research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and NREL, Susan joined the NREL research staff in 2012. Her current work focuses on the development of innovative catalysts for selective transformations of renewable and waste carbon sources to fuels and chemicals.
Susan's interests include the design and synthesis of nanostructured catalysts with tailored surface chemistry, continuous flow methods for scalable synthesis and discovery of catalytic materials, and non-thermal plasma catalysis. She is a Principal Investigator in the Chemical Catalysis for Bioenergy Consortium, leading a multi-national laboratory effort to advance new synthetic approaches and operando characterisation capabilities for catalytic systems.
Rebecca Melen
Cardiff University, UK
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Rebecca Melen studied for her undergraduate and PhD degrees at the University of Cambridge, completing her PhD in 2012 with Prof. Wright. Following postdoctoral studies with Prof. Stephan in Toronto and with Prof. Gade in Heidelberg, she took up a position at Cardiff University in 2014, where she is now a professor in inorganic chemistry.
In 2018, Rebecca was awarded an EPSRC early career fellowship and she is the recipient of the 2019 RSC Harrison Meldola Memorial Prize. Her research interests lie in main group chemistry and the applications of main group Lewis acids in synthesis and catalysis. When not in the lab she enjoys being outdoors and spending her time with her pony.
Zhichuan J. Xu
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Zhichuan is a professor in the School of Materials 新月直播app下载 and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He received his PhD degree in Electroanalytical Chemistry in 2008 and a B.S. degree in Chemistry in 2002 from Lanzhou University, China. His PhD training was received at Lanzhou University (2002-2004), Institute of Physics, CAS (2004-2005), and Brown University (2005-2007).
Since 2007, he worked at the State University of New York at Binghamton as a Research Associate and since 2009 he worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Postdoctoral Researcher. His major research interest is electrocatalysis, including catalyst development and fundamental advances.
Currently, he serves as the director of the Centre of Advanced Catalysis 新月直播app下载 and Technology at Nanyang Technological University. Dr Xu received the Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry from the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in 2019. He is a Fellow of the 新月直播app下载 (FRSC) since 2017 and a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics, and Web of 新月直播app下载 since 2018.