People

Education:

• 1989-1994, DSc (Doctorat ès Sciences), Experimental Condensed Matter Physics; Institute of Experimental Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. Advisor: Dr. J. J. van der Klink.

• 1983-1986, MSc, Nuclear Physics and Physical Chemistry; Departments of Nuclear Physics and of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai, PRC. Advisors: Professors Y.-Z. Gu and L. Fei.

• 1979-1983, BSc, Nuclear Physics; Department of Nuclear Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, PRC.

Positions Held:

• Director, Environmental Metrology & Policy Program, 7/2017-present

• Fulbright Global Scholar, 2020-2021

• Chair, Chemistry Department, 7/2010-6/2017

• Professor, Chemistry Department, Georgetown University, 8/2010–present

• Associate Professor, Chemistry Department, Georgetown University. 8/2006–7/2010

• Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, Georgetown University, 8/2001-7/2006.

• Senior Research Associate, 4/1999-7/2001; Research Associate, 11/1996-3/1999, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with Professors Eric Oldfield and Andrzej Wieckowski.

• Visiting Staff Scientist, Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse, CNRS, Villeurbanne, France, 1/95- 10/96.

• Ph.D Student, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Lausanne, 1989-1994, with Dr. J. J. van der Klink.

• Junior faculty member, NMR Laboratory, Research Center for Analysis & Measurement, Fudan University, Shanghai, 7/1986-6/1989.

Editorial Boards:

• Electrocatalysis, Springer,  2010 – 2023

• ChemistrySelect, Wiley, 2016 – 2021

Society Memberships:

• The American Chemical Society (current).

• The Electrochemical Society.

• American Physical Society.

• International Society of Electrochemistry (current).

• American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (current).

Research Interests:

Interfacial Electrochemistry, Heterogeneous and Electrochemical catalysis, Fuel Cell Science, Physics and Chemistry of Nanomaterials, in particular Nanoscale Charge Transfer to and from Monolayer-Protected Coinage Metal Nanoparticles and Pt-based Heterogeneous and Electrochemical Nano-catalysts, Solid-State Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, IR and Raman Spectroelectrochemistry.