Bo Yang

Biography

Bo Yang received his BEng in Applied Chemistry from East China University of Science and Technology in 2010, PhD in Physical Chemistry from The Queen’s University of Belfast in 2013 under the supervision of Professor Christopher Hardacre and Professor Peijun Hu. From 2013 to 2015, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, a joint research center between SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, under the supervision of Professor Jens K. Nørskov and Dr Thomas Bligaard. He was the recipient of several major awards, including the Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards jointly awarded by EPSRC and Johnson Matthey, EFCATS PhD Student Award and Royal Irish Academy Young Chemist’s Prize. He joined the School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University as a tenure-track assistant professor、PI in May 2015.

Research Interest

My research interest lies in the broad area of heterogeneous catalysis, surface chemistry, computational chemistry and catalyst materials design utilizing a number of theoretical and experimental approaches, focusing on the catalytic problems in renewable energy utilization and environment protection. The methodology is to use density functional theory (DFT) calculations to analyze the thermodynamics and kinetics of surface reactions on catalyst surfaces. Automated analyses and dynamic simulation of surface reactions are carried out in my group, along with the reliability analyses of the DFT calculation results. The ultimate goals are to screen and design ideal catalyst materials with ideal catalytic active sites and to guide the whole catalyst development process from preparation, characterization to testing.