With the increasing demand for energy and the environmental pollution caused by the exploitation of fossil fuels, the development of clean and renewable energy sources is of vital importance for human development. Our work focuses on the preparation of new energy materials and the development of high-efficiency devices, as well as the engineering thermophysics issues involved, including heat and mass transfer. Our research efforts are concentrated on the academic frontiers and interdisciplinary studies, such as solar hydrogen production, water electrolysis, new energy storage batteries, etc. Currently we have the following research directions: (1) Water electrolysis and solar-driven hydrogen and electricity co-production; (2) Photo(electro)catalytic production of hydrogen and hydrocarbons; (2) Multi-physics simulation and dynamic analysis.

2003.09 - 2007.07: Bachelor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, majoring in Materials Science and Engineering

2007.09 - 2013.09: PhD, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, majoring in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics

2011.09 - 2012.09: Joint - training doctoral student, Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, USA

2014.01 - 2017.06: Lecturer, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, majoring in New Energy Science and Engineering

2017.07 - 2022.12: Associate Professor, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, majoring in New Energy Science and Engineering

Since 2023.01: Professor, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, majoring in New Energy Science and Engineering

• 2023: First prize of Teaching Achievements for Postgraduate Education in Shaanxi Province in 2023 (5/10)
• 2022: Excellent Staff in Enrollment Promotion of Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2022
• 2020: The paper won the 2019 Best Paper Award of Science China Materials (Corresponding author)
• 2020: The paper won the 2019 Best Paper Award of Science Bulletin (Corresponding author)
• 2020: Fourteenth Natural Science Outstanding Academic Paper Award of Shaanxi Province (2/6)
• 2019: Ranked in the top 1% of Highly - cited authors in the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2019
• 2016: First prize of Science and Technology of Shaanxi Province (6/11)
• 2013: "WU Chung-Hua" Outstanding Student Award of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics

• Doctoral Students: Wenyu Zheng, Rui Li, Fei Lv, Jiazhe Wu, Xiaodan Jin
• Master Students: Zhichao Ge, Pengfei Wang, Lixia Pan, Wenli Zhang, Wensheng Xie, Xuan Liu, Zhihao Zheng, Chenyang Yin, Mengting Chen, Boyu Dong, Zhuoyao Zhao, Shuhua Zhang

Alumni:

• Doctors: Xu Guo, Zhixiao Qin (Outstanding Graduate of Xi'an Jiaotong University), Xiaoyang Feng (jointly supervised in 2019); Menglong Wang (2023)
• Masters: Wenshuai Zhang (2019); ABRAHAM ONOME, ADDISU TIRUNEH (international students, 2020); Hanqing Zhu, Hongyu Xia (2021); Ruixue Wang, Fuliang Wang, Xiaoya Xu (2022); Xuewen Zheng (Outstanding Graduation Thesis of Xi'an Jiaotong University), HEIDARI SAHAR (2023)