Women Scientists Forum - AI-Driven Design of Low-Temperature industrial Catalysts for Sustainable Green Ammonia Synthesis

Li Wei is a professor at the Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, and the deputy director of the National Key Laboratory of Porous Materials for Separation and Conversion. His research primarily focuses on the design, synthesis, and application of porous materials. He has been selected as a Distinguished Professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and serves as the Chief Scientist of the National Key Research and Development Program. He has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate for six consecutive years (2019–2024). He has published over 200 papers in journals such as Nature, Nature Sustainability, Nature Protocols, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition, with over 40,000 citations. He currently serves as a council member of the International Mesostructured Materials Association (IMMA), a member of the Energy Chemistry Professional Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society, and a member of the Editorial Working Group of National Science Review. He has received honors including the First Prize of the 2020 National Natural Science Award and the Huo Yingdong Young Scientist Award.

Professor Li Ying received her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005, and subsequently completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. She currently works at the College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, and was awarded the Huzhou Nan Taihu Talent Program in 2024. As the founder and Chairman of Huzhou Jiacarbon New Material Technology Co., Ltd., she also serves as the Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology. She has led more than 20 national and provincial-level research projects, publishing over 200 SCI papers and holding more than 140 authorized patents. Her research focuses on green energy catalysis, carbon catalysis, and AI-driven energy catalysis, including carbon-based functional materials, high-value utilization of carbonaceous solid waste, ammonia synthesis and liquid hydrogen storage, and catalytic synthesis of fluorine/chlorine-containing monomers, bridging fundamental research with industrial applications.