Minhua

SHAO

邵敏華

Professor Minhua Shao is the Head and Chair Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Director of HKUST Energy Institute. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry from Xiamen University in China, and a Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2006. Before joining the HKUST, Prof Shao worked at UTC Power on fuel cells and Ford Motor Company on lithium-ion batteries in the United States. He was a UTC Technical Fellow during his tenure with UTC Power. Prof Shao’s research interests include advanced materials for energy conversion and storage devices, and fundamental understandings of related electrochemical reactions. Prof Shao has particular interests in fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries, solid state batteries, CO2 reduction, water splitting, electrocatalysis, DFT calculations and nanomaterials. He has published more than 210 peer-reviewed papers with over 20000 citations (h-index = 64), 1 edited book, 5 book chapters, and filed more than 30 patent applications (19 issued). He has received a number of awards, including the Supramaniam Srinivasan Young Investigator Award (ECS Energy Technology Division).  He is an Associate Editor of Journal of the Electrochemical Society (2017- ) and one of the founding members of Young Academy of Science of Hong Kong.