On March 3, 2016, Professor Jingguang Chen of Columbia University visits our university, and gave a wonderful report to the teachers and students of School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering. The report was emceed by Prof. Jimin Xie, about one hundred faculties and students attended this report.

Prof. Chen’s report entitled “CO₂ Conversion via Catalysis and Electrocatalysis”. In this report, he mainly discussed some recent results in CO₂ conversion via both heterogenerous catalysis and electrocatalysis. In particular, the approaches involve the combination of DFT calculations and surface science studies over single crystal surfaces, evaluations over supported catalysts, and in-situ characterization under reaction conditions. The attendees benefited a lot from the presentation.

Jingguang Chen is the Thayer Lindsley Professor of chemical engineering at Columbia University. He received his BS degree from Nanjing University and PhD degree from the University of Pittsburgh. After spending several years as a staff scientist at Exxon Corporate Research, he started his academic career at the University of Delaware in 1998, and then took the roles as the director of the Center for Catalytic Science and Technology and the Claire LeClaire Professor of chemical engineering. He moved to Columbia University in 2012. He is the co-author of 20 US patents and over 300 journal articles with over 12,000 citations. He received many awards, including the awards from the catalysis clubs of Philadelphia (2004), New York (2008), Chicago (2011) and Michigan (2015). He recently won the 2015 George Olah award from the American Chemical Society.