(1) Database construction, intelligent design and high-throughput screening of electrocatalytic materials.
(2) Metastable electrocatalytic materials for small-molecule-mediated energy conversion
2024/05-present: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Professor
2022/05-2024/04: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, Postdoc
2019/05-2022/04: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France, ERC Postdoc
2017/06-2019/04: Monash University, Australia, Research Fellow
2012/09-2017/06: Jilin University, PhD, Materials Physics and Chemistry
(1)“Zhang Dayu Young Scholar” at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
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