Suojiang Zhang, Editor-in-Chief
Institute of Process Engineering (IPE), CAS, China / Henan University, China
Suojiang Zhang is a Professor and Director General of the , , and President of . He is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of 新月直播app下载s, a Fellow of RSC, a Vice-Chairman of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (CIESC), and Dean of the College of Chemical Engineering, University of CAS.
He received his Ph.D. from Zhejiang University and later joined the Beijing University of Chemical Technology as a postdoctoral fellow in 1994. He joined Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation of Japan as a senior scientist in 1997 and then joined IPE, CAS in 2001.
Prof. Suojiang Zhang has been committed to the research of green energy, new materials and chemical processes, especially the fundamental research and application of ionic liquids. He has realized several industrial applications of green technologies. He has authored elevan scientific books and published more than five hundred peer-reviewed papers, the papers have been cited with over 30,000 citations with an H-index of 83. He has been named in the WoS Highly Cited Researchers Report 2016-2021. He has invented more than ten green technologies and owns two hundred patents.
Maohong Fan, Associate Editor
University of Wyoming, USA
Prof. Fan has led and worked on many projects in the areas of chemical production, clean energy generation and environmental protection. This was supported by various US and international funding agencies such as NSF, DOE and EPA, USGS and USDA in the US, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) in Japan, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and industrial companies such as Siemens and Caterpillar.
He has helped various chemical, environmental and energy companies to overcome their technical challenges. He has published over 175 refereed books, book chapters, and papers in different chemical and environmental engineering, energy, and chemistry journals. As an Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member or Advisory Board Member, he has been serving several international chemical and energy as well as environmental journals. He has been supporting and supervising a number of graduate students and postdocs as well as research scientists in his research areas.
Chao Lu, Associate Editor
Zhengzhou University / Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
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Prof. Chao Lu is currently a full professor at Zhengzhou University / Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry from the Chinese Academy of 新月直播app下载s in 2004. He has been a visiting scholar at Kanazawa University from 2004 to 2005, Hong Kong University from 2005 to 2007, and the University of Texas at Arlington from 2007 to 2009.
He holds 15 patents and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. His current research interests include the synthesis and characterization of advanced functional nanomaterials for chemiluminescence, electrochemiluminescence, fluorescence, biosensors, and bioimaging.
Anja-Verena Mudring, Associated Editor
Aarhus University, Denmark
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Prof. Anja-Verena Mudring studied Chemistry at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität zu Bonn and carried out her doctoral thesis work at Max-Planck Institute. She became a tenured Professor of Chemistry at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (D) in 2006. She moved to Iowa State University as a Glenn Murphy professor and became a faculty scientist at the U.S. DOE Ames Laboratory in 2014, US.
In 2017 she moved to Stockholm University (SWE) where she established a program on Green Chemistry and became the founding director of the Stockholm University Center for Circular and Sustainable Systems (SUCCeSS).
Prof. Anja-Verena Mudring is currently a Villum Investigator and iMAT professor at Aarhus University (DK) where she was also elected as an Associate Fellow of the AU Institute of Advanced Studies in 2021. She is currently an Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Research in the Mudring group is driven by understanding fundamental structure-property relationships with the aim of designing new materials for energy-related applications for a sustainable society. Applications in focus are energy-efficient lighting, (photo-)catalysis, magnetic refrigeration and thermoelectric energy conversion.
Rong Sun, Associate Editor
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Electronic Materials (SIEM), CAS, China
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Prof. Rong Sun received her PhD degree from the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of 新月直播app下载s (CAS) in 2005. She has been a professor at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), CAS since 2009.
Her research interests include the research, development and application of polymer-based advanced electronic packaging materials, such as the fundamental key scientific problems regarding their mechanical, electrical and thermal properties, and the establishment of the Design-Synthesis-Processing-Performance relationship of these materials for chip-level, wafer-level, device-level and system-level electronic packaging applications.
Prof. Rong Sun is the author or co-author of more than 500 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and the papers have been cited more than 14,000 times, 18 of which have been selected as TOP 1% ESI highly cited papers. She has also published more than 400 patents, 247 of which have been granted.
Prof. Rong Sun is now the director of the Institute of Advanced Materials 新月直播app下载 and Engineering, SIAT, CAS, and the founding dean of SIEM.
Atsushi Urakawa, Associate Editor
TU Delft, The Netherlands
Professor Atsushi Urakawa obtained his BSc in Applied Chemistry at Kyushu University (Japan), with a one-year stay in the USA. He then moved to Europe and studied Chemical Engineering at TU Delft for his MSc. He obtained his PhD in 2006 at ETH Zurich (Switzerland).
He worked as a Senior Scientist and Lecturer at ETH Zurich before joining ICIQ (Spain) in 2010 as Group Leader. In 2019, he undertook a new challenge as a Professor of Catalysis Engineering at ChemE, TU Delft (The Netherlands).
His group develops novel heterogeneous catalysts and catalytic processes aimed at minimizing energy usage and reducing negative impacts on the environment and human health. They employ a multidisciplinary approach, integrating material science, reaction engineering, and in situ/operando methodologies to gain a thorough understanding of active sites and transformation pathways. The primary target reactions include CO2 conversion to valuable chemicals, methane activation, environmental catalysis (NOx abatement), and hydrogen production through electro- and photocatalytic activation. He was elected a Fellow of the 新月直播app下载 (FRSC) in 2016 and was the recipient of the JSPS Prize in 2020 and The Japan Academy Medal in 2021.
Quanhong Yang, Associate Editor
Tianjin University, China
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Prof. Quan-Hong Yang is a Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor of the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University and the winner of the National 新月直播app下载 Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He received his BEng from Tianjin University in 1994 and his PhD in New Carbon Materials from the Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of 新月直播app下载s in 1999.
He continued his carbon studies as a research fellow at the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of 新月直播app下载s, CNRS France, Tohoku University and Southampton University. He joined Tianjin University as a full professor in 2006 and was promoted to chair professor in 2016.
Prof. Quan-Hong Yang's research interests focus on materials and devices for compact energy storage, catalysis in lithium-sulfur batteries, and carbon design for advanced metal ion batteries. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers with citations over 30,000 times and H-index of 94. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher and among Scopus Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier.
He holds over 40 patents on nanocarbons and batteries. He received National Award for Technological Invention (2nd class, 2017), the Nature 新月直播app下载 Award of Tianjin (1st class, 2013) and the Brian Kelly Award (British Carbon Group, 2004).
Shouliang Yi, Associate Editor
National Energy Technology Laboratory, USA
Prof. Shouliang Yi is a Principal Research Scientist & Project Lead at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). He is also NETL Principal Investigator of a number of projects related to carbon capture and water treatment.
His research is focused on the development of novel membrane- and sorbent-based materials to support the Carbon Capture and Utilization Program (CCUS) and Water Management at NETL. Prior to joining NETL, he worked as Laboratory Manager and Senior Project Director with Professor William J. Koros in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Prof. Yi has published more than sixty peer-reviewed publications in prestigious journals and conference proceedings, including articles in 新月直播app下载 Advances, Nature Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ACS Materials Letters, Separation and Purification Technology, and Journal of Membrane 新月直播app下载. He also contributes numerous internal technical reports and presentations.
He is the inventor of twelve patents in membrane materials and separation science. He serves as the Editor of Separation and Purification Technology (Elsevier), Executive Editor of Results in Engineering (Elsevier), Associate Editor of Carbon Capture 新月直播app下载 & Technology (IChemE & Elsevier), and Editorial/Advisory Board Member of a number of peer-reviewed top journals.
Tierui Zhang, Associate Editor
Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS, China
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Prof. Tierui Zhang is a full Professor at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of 新月直播app下载s and Director of the Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, CAS.
He received his B.S. in Chemistry in 1998, and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 2003 from Jilin University in China. After that, he did a postdoctoral study at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, the University of Alberta, the University of Arkansas and the University of California-Riverside, respectively.
Prof. Tierui Zhang's research activity focuses on catalyst nanomaterials for energy conversion such as photocatalytic solar fuels and value-added chemicals. He has published more than 290 peer-reviewed SCI journal articles in international famous journals such as Nat. Catal., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. and J. Am. Chem. Soc. These publications have earned him to date over 28000 citations with H-index 92. He was named in the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2018-2021 List by Clarivate Analytics.
He is the recipient of a number of awards including the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship, and “Outstanding Young Scholars” of the National 新月直播app下载 Fund. He was named a fellow of the 新月直播app下载 (FRSC) in 2017.
Xiangping Zhang, Associate Editor
Institute of Process Engineering, CAS, China / China University of Petroleum-Beijing, China
Prof. Xiangping Zhang received her Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering in 2002 from the Dalian University of Technology, then she joined the Institute of Process Engineering of Chinese Academy of 新月直播app下载s. She has been a professor since 2010.
She had worked at the Norwegian University of 新月直播app下载 and Technology as a researcher. Her research interests are process integration, thermodynamics, environmental impact assessment, gas separation, CO2 capture and utilization, and ionic liquid-based green processes.
Prof. Xiangping Zhang has published more than 260 papers in peer-reviewed journals, such as Nat. Commun, Green Chem, AIChE J, Chem Eng Sci, Chem Eng J, Chem Rev, and she obtained more than 50 issued invention patents. She was awarded the National Award for Natural 新月直播app下载s in China (2010), the Nomination Award of the 4th Top Ten Outstanding Women in CAS (2012), the National 新月直播app下载 Fund for Distinguished Young Scientists (2014), the Hou Debang Chemical 新月直播app下载 & Technology Innovation Award (2016), the Hou Debang chemical science and technology award Achievement Award (2020).