Title: Research Experience: Some New Examples of Electrocatalysis for Energy Conversion
Speaker: Professor Qiao Shizhang (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Time: 10:00a.m., Jan. 13th, 2018
Venue: Room 105, Shaw Engineering Building, Wushan Campus

[Biography]
Dr. Shi-Zhang Qiao is currently a professor (Chair of Nanotechnology) at School of Chemical Engineering of the University of Adelaide. His research expertise is in nanostructured materials for new energy technologies including electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, fuel cell, supercapacitor and batteries. He has co-authored more than 300 papers in refereed journals (over 31,000 citations with h-index 90), including Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Energy, Nature Communications, J. Am. Chem. Soc, Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater..He has filed several patents and has attracted more than 12.0 million dollars in research grants from industrial partners and Australian Research Council (ARC).
Prof. Qiao was honoured with a prestigious ARC Australian Laureate Fellow (2017), ExxonMobil Award (2016),ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA, 2013) and an Emerging Researcher Award (2013, ENFL Division of the American Chemical Society). He has also been awarded an ARC ARF Fellowship and an ARC APD Fellowship.
Prof. Qiao is a Fellow of Institution of Chemical Engineers (FIChemE),a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Fellow of Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI). He is currently an Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, and is a Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher (Chemistry, Materials Science).