Invited Speaker of Session: S5c Hydrogen Production

Junwang (John) Tang

Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London,

UK, WC1E 7JE

E-mail:  junwang.tang@ucl.ac.uk

Short Biography

Professor Junwang Tang is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Director of the UCL Materials Hub and Professor of Materials Chemistry and Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University College London. He received his PhD in Physical Chemistry in DICP in Dalian in 2001 and then took a position at NIMS, Japan as a JSPS fellow, a senior researcher at Imperial College before he joined UCL in 2009. His research interests encompass photocatalytic activation of small molecules (eg. CH4 to C2+, N2 to NH3 and H2O to H2 gas), plastic recycling by microwave catalysis and microwave intensified fluidic chemical manufacturing. Such studies are undertaken in parallel with the mechanistic understanding and device optimisation to address the renewable energy supply and environmental purification. His research has led to ~150 papers with ~11000 citations, and many invited lectures. He also received many awards and the latest one is the 2018 IPS Scientist Award presented in the 22nd IPS conference. He also sits on the editorial/advisory board of a few international journals, eg. Materials Today Advances, Sustainable Energy and Fuels, Journal of Advanced Chemical Engineering (Editor-in-Chief), Chin. J. Catal. (Associate Editor) and Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering (Associate Editor) and Applied Catalysis B.