He won the honors of outstanding doctoral thesis of Peking University and Humboldt Scholar of Germany, was selected as the youth project of 2020 Overseas High-level Talent Introduction Program, and presided over the Youth project of National Natural Science Foundation and Beijing Natural Science Foundation. He studied under Academician Zhang Jin and his postdoctoral fellow in the research group of Prof. Chen Xiaodong (Academician of Singapore Academy of Sciences and Academy of Engineering), Prof. Alexander Eychmuller and Prof. Guo Zhengxiao (Academician of European Academy of Sciences) respectively. Published more than 50 papers in such journals as Nat. Commun., Sci. Adv., Matter(3), Adv. Mater.(2), Angew. Chem.(2), Adv. Energy Mater.(3), and authorized 5 Chinese invention patents. As a reviewer for international journals such as Nat. Commun., Sci. Adv., Adv. Mater., Nano Lett., ACS Nano, and as a young editorial board member of SmartMat. See https://www.x-mol.com/groups/ran_du for more details.

Cross-disciplinary research is carried out in the frontier fields of aerogel, mainly focusing on the development of controllable preparation methods of metal aerogel and metal matrix composite aerogel/hydrogel, and exploring and promoting its application in the fields of (optical) electrocatalysis, smart materials, and environmental remediation.

2011-2016 PhD, School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
2007-2011 Bachelor of Engineering in Polymer Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology

2021- Professor, PhD Supervisor, School of Materials, Beijing Institute of Technology
2020-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Zhejiang Academy of Science and Technology, University of Hong Kong
2017-2019 Humboldt Scholar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
2016-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, Nanyang Technological University

1.Du, R.*, and Eychmüller, A.* et al., Matter 2020, 2, 908-920.
2.Du, R., Hu, Y.*, and Eychmüller, A.* et al., Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 1590.
3.Du, R.*, and Eychmüller, A.* et al., Angew. 2020, 59, 8293-8300.
4.Fan, X., Zerebecki, S., Du, R.*, and Eychmüller, A.* et al., Angew. 2020, 59, 5706-5711.
5.Du, R., Jin, W.*, and Eychmüller, A.* et al., Adv. Energy Mater. 2020, 10, 1903857.
6.Du, R., Hu, Y.*, and Eychmüller, A.* et al., Sci. Adv. 2019, 5, eaaw4590.
7.Jiang, X., and Du, R.* et al., Matter 2021, 4, 54-94.
8.Du, R.*, and Eychmüller, A.* et al., Matter 2019, 1, 39-56.
9.Du, R., and Zhang, J.* et al., Adv. Mater. 2016, 28, 936-942.
10.Du, R., and Zhang, J.* et al., Adv. Mater. 2014, 26, 8053-8058.