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Professor YuYe Jay Tong
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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
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 – present
ChemistrySelect, Wiley, 2016 – 2021
Society Memberships:
The American Chemical Society (current).
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.