Prof. Qing Li, born in 1983, is now the director of the Center for New Energy Materials and Devices, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Professor Li is mainly engaged in research in the fields of hydrogen energy and carbon neutrality, electrocatalysis and electrochemistry, fuel cells, and clean hydrogen production. He has won the National Outstanding Youth (2021), National High-Level Overseas Talent Program (2016), and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022). He has published more than 100 SCI academic papers, including more than 70 papers (IF > 10), such as Joule, Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc. The paper has been cited more than 14,000 times, with an H-index of 62. More than 20 papers have been rated as ESI hot topics and highly cited papers, and more than ten US/Chinese patents have been authorized. He has host/participated in the National Science Fund for Outstanding Youth, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key R&D Program "Key Technologies and Support Platforms for Materials Genetic Engineering", the Hubei Provincial Technology Innovation Special Major Project, the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission Basic Research Program, etc. And he now is the deputy editor-in-chief of Chinese Chemical Letters, an editorial board member of journals such as Electrochemistry, Chinese Journal of Catalysis, and Nano Materials Science, and a director of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Sciences (IAOEES). The team has a long-term cooperative and exchange relationship with research institutions such as Los Alamos National Laboratory, State University of New York at Buffalo, Brown University, California State University, Ulsan University of Science and Technology in South Korea, and Taiwan Synchrotron Radiation Source and industrial cooperation with well-known enterprises such as Wanrun, Zhongyu, and Zhongshun Environmental Protection.

Reserach

1. Electrochemical conversion of clean energy towards carbon neutrality

2. Research on electrocatalytic reactions such as hydrogen fuel cell, electrolytic water, CO2 reduction (reaction pathways, evolution of adsorption intermediates or active center sites, in-situ characterization, etc.)

3. Rational design and large-scale preparation of highly efficient nanocatalysts

4. Development of new electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices and systems PEMFCs, SPEWE, new secondary batteries, etc.)