Chairman

Dr. Yong-Sheng Hu

Professor and director of the Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Education

1994-1998        Bachelor degree from Jianghan University

1998-2001        Master degree from Wuhan Institute of Technology

2001-2004        PhD from the Institute of Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professional Experience

2004-2007        PostDoc at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Germany

2007-2008        PostDoc at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

2008-present    Professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2017-present    Director of the Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research topics

Solid state ionics

Rechargeable Na-ion batteries

Patents

Applied for more than 50 invention patents, 30 of which have been authorized, including 1 US patent and 1 JP patent.

Publications

He has published over 180 internationally refereed SCI publications including Journals such as Nature Mater., Nature Energy, Joule, Nature Commun., Science Adv., etc. These papers have been cited over 16000 times according to ISI web of science with an H-index of 62. He was selected as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers in the field of Materials Science from 2014 to 2018.

Honors & Awards
2017 The Chinese National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

2016 The 14th China Youth Science and Technology Award

2016 Fellow of The Institute of Physics (UK)

2015 Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry

2015 Mao Yi Sheng Beijing Youth Science and Technology Award

2015 Tajima Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry

2015 Newton Advanced Fellowships of The Royal Society

2014-2018 Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science

2013 The “Chinese Society of Electrochemical Prize for Young Scientists”

2013 The “Chinese Society of Ceramic Prize for Young Scientists”

2012 The Chinese National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars

2012 The Sapling Researcher Award from Institute of Physics