Principal Investigator

Zhichuan is a President's Chair Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore. He serves as the director of the Centre of Advanced Catalysis Science and Technology, and the deputy director of CN Yang programme, NTU. He received his PhD degree in Electroanalytical Chemistry and B.S. degree in Chemistry from Lanzhou University, China. His PhD training was received in Lanzhou University, Institute of Physics, CAS, and Brown University. He worked in State University of New York at Binghamton as a Research Associate and then in Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Dr. Xu has received several awards such as Chun-Tsung Endowment Outstanding Contribution Award - Excellent Scholar at 2018 and the Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry by International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in 2019. He was awarded Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2017. He serves as the president of ECS Singapore Section. Dr. Xu is a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science since 2018.