Associate Professor
Room 359 Science Centre
(852) 3943 3586
Education
| 2011-2015 | D.Phil. | Oxford University |
| 2010-2011 | M.Sc. | University of Warwick |
| 2006-2010 | B. Eng. | Wuhan Institute of Technology |
Position
| Since 2025 | Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2019-2025 | Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2018–2019 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Toronto |
| 2015–2018 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 2014–2015 | Research Assistant, Nanyang Technological University |
Research Interests
| 1. | Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, Electrode Kinetics, Electrolyzer Engineering, Carbon Conversion |
Professional Activities
| Committee Member of Women Chemists, Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) | |
| Member of Early Career Editorial Board of Journal of Electrochemistry | |
| Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Chemical Physics | |
| Member of Editorial Advisory Board of Energy & Fuels | |
| Member of Early Career Editorial Board for Chinese Chemical Letters | |
| Member of Early Career Editorial Board for Material Reports: Energy | |
| Member of Early Career Editorial Board, Transactions of Tianjin University | |
| EMember of Editorial Board for Communications Materials | |
| Member of Editorial Board for eScience Eenrgy |
Honours and Awards
| 2025 | 中国电化学青年奖 |
| 2024 | World’s Top 2% Scientist 2024 |
| 2023 | Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cheung Research Excellence Award 2023, United College, CUHK |
| 2022 | Young Researcher Award, 2022, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2022 | Excellent Young Scientists (Hong Kong and Macao), 2022, National Natural Science Foundation of China |
| 2022 | “Innovators under 35” Asia Pacific, 2022, MIT Technology Reviews |
Research Grants
| 1. | National Natural Science Foundation of China：基於高效電催化二氧化碳還原體系的研究 |
| 2. | Research Grants Council General Research Fund: Small Molecule as Efficient Catalyst for Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to Hydrocarbons |
| 3. | Research Grants Council Early Career Scheme: Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 to Ethanol Under Acidic Conditions |
| 4. | CUHK Academic Equipment Grant: High Performance Differential Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry |
| 5. | CUHK Direct Grant: Efficient Electrochemical Synthesis of H2O2 in Neutral Conditions |
Representative Publications
| 1 | Lu1, J. Liu1, X. Zou, B. Huang, W. Wu, J. Yin*, Z. Liu*, Y. Wang*, Breaking the Activity-Stability Trade-Off of RuO2 via Metallic Ru Bilateral Regulation for Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, e202503733 |
| 2 | Wu, Y. Wang*, The Role of Proton in CO2 Reduction on Gold Under Acidic Conditions, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 11662 |
| 3 | Sun, B. Wu, Z. Wang, H. Guo, G. Yan, H. Duan, G. Li, Y. Wang*, J. Wang*, Rational Catalyst Layers Design Enables Tailored Transport Channels for Efficient CO2 Electrochemical Reduction to Multi-carbon Products, Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18, 1027 |
| 4 | Xu1, R. Lu1, Z. Lin1, W. Wu, H. Tsai, Q. Lu, Y. C. Li, S. Hung*, C. Song, J. C. Yu, Z. Wang*, Y. Wang*, Electroreduction of CO2 to methane with triazole molecular catalysts, Nat. Energy, 2024, 9, 1397 |
| 5 | Xie1, P. Ou1, X. Wang1, Z. Xu, Y. C. Li, Z. Wang, J. E. Huang, J. Wicks, C. McCallum, N. Wang, Y. Wang, T. Chen, T. B. Lo, D. Sinton, J. C. Yu, Y. Wang*, E. H. Sargent*, High Carbon Utilization in CO2 Electrolysis to Multi-Carbon Products in Acidic Media, Nat. Catal., 2022, 5, 564 |