Women Forum for Catalysis-Catalysis for Sustainable Energy and Green Chemical Transformations

Dr. Ying Wan completed each of her academic degrees in Industrial Catalysis from the East China University of Science and Technology. In 2005 - 2007, she carried out her postdoctoral research at Fudan University. Now she is a professor of Chemistry in Shanghai Normal University. Her research focuses on the design and synthesis of mesoporous carbon supported metal catalysts based on electronic structure descriptor strategies and their applications towards precise catalysis in high-value fine chemicals and energy storage. She has published 3 books as a co-author, and over 90 papers in reputed journals including Nature Catal., Nat. Commun., JACS, Angew. Chem., Natl. Sci. Rev. She leads the Environmental Functional Materials Research Team supported by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Team Development Program. In 2018 and 2021, she was elected as Secretary of the 10th and 11th International Mesostructured Materials Association. She is currently an Editor of Green Catalysis and an Associate Editor of Chemical Synthesis.

Prof. Jing He is a Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology. She received her degrees from Peking University (B.S. in Chemistry, M.S. in Physical Chemistry) and her Ph.D. from BUCT. As a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and an expert awarded by the State Council Special Allowance, she has led an NSFC Innovative Research Group and the Changjiang Scholars Innovation Team. She previously served as Director of the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering and Dean of the College of Chemistry at BUCT. Her work focuses on catalyst and catalytic reaction engineering. She has undertaken over 20 major national research projects and received multiple prestigious awards, including the Beijing Science and Technology First Prize and top prizes from the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation and the Chinese Chemical Society. She serves as Member of Editorial Board for Green Chemistry, Structure and Bonding, and Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering.

Lin He is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has long focused on the high-value utilization of C1 resources, based on the creation of catalytic systems, and has achieved directional synthesis and transformation of high-value products such as non-isocyanate urea, carbamates, polyol esters, and adiponitrile/2-methylpentanedinitrile through catalytic carbonylation/cyanation using CO, CO2, and CN⁻. Relevant achievements have been published in over 60 papers, including 1 in Science and 9 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. She holds 8 granted Chinese patents and 2 international patents.

Professor Zhe An received her BSc (2005) and PhD (2011) degrees from Beijing University of Chemical Technology. She was promoted to full professor in 2021. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Utah (2015-2016). Her research is focused on the heterogeneous catalysis and the green synthesis of value-added fine chemicals. As the first or corresponding author, the applicant has published more than 30 papers in Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., ACS Catal., J. Catal. etc., including 4 invited review papers in Chem. Commun.、Chin. J. Catal.、Sci. Sin. Chim., 6 Chinese invention granted patents and 3 PCT patents, two monograph as co-author, and has served as youth editorial board of Trans. Tianjin Univ. and Ind. Chem. Mater. etc.

Dr. Yafei Sun received her Ph. D in Environmental Science and Engineering from Shanghai Normal University. Right now, she is a member of Professor Ying Wan's group at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Her research focuses on the design and synthesis of stable and efficient mesoporous carbon-supported metal catalysts based on electronic structure descriptor strategies, and their applications in confined catalysis. She has published seven papers as the first author, co-first author, or corresponding author in journals such as Nature Catalysis and Angewandte Chemie.