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Personal profile

Director of the Institute of Chemical Power and Green Catalysis, member of the 8th Academic Degree Committee of The State Council, national leading talent, innovation team leader of the Ministry of Education, Director of Beijing Key Laboratory of Chemical Power and Green Catalysis, and Director of Beijing International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Fuel Cell Distributed Power Generation Technology. As the first completed person, he won 3 national awards and 8 provincial awards.

Research Interests

He has been engaged in major technical research in energy electrochemical engineering for a long time, and has made systematic and creative achievements in energy storage, transformation and transportation.
1. Electrochemical Energy Conversion and storage Technology
2. Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
3. High specific energy lithium-ion battery

Education

1992.09-1996.10 Harbin Institute of Technology, Major in Metal Materials, Doctor of Engineering
1985.09-1988.06 Harbin Institute of Technology, Applied Electrochemistry, Master of Engineering
1981.09-1985.07 Harbin Institute of Technology, Electrochemical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering

Professional Experience

2016.07-present Beijing Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Distinguished Professor
2009.01-2016.07 Dean, Professor, School of Chemical Engineering and Environment, Beijing Institute of Technology 2005.07-2008.12 Harbin Institute of Technology, Institute of Basic and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Professor
2002.07-2005.06 Harbin Institute of Technology, School of Science, Professor
1996.10-1997.11 Curie University, Paris, France, National Government Visiting Scholar
1995.07-2002.06 Associate Researcher, Department of Applied Chemistry, Harbin Institute of Technology
1988.06-1995.06 Harbin Institute of Technology, Department of Applied Chemistry, Lecturer

Research Achievement

He has presided over a number of international key research and development projects, National 863 major projects, National Natural Science Foundation projects, international cooperation projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and enterprise scientific research cooperation projects, including Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater. He has published more than 400 SCI papers in other journals, won Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar (Energy) for seven consecutive years from 2014 to 2020, edited two academic works and one textbook, and obtained 48 national invention patents.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action

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