Junwang Tang#
| Membership Number: | 5610 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/solar-energy-advanced-materials |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2323-5510 |
| Twitter: | @Tang_group_UK |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - now Professor of Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, University College London (UCL)
- 2016 - 2019 Director of University Materials Hub, University College London
- 2016 - now Visiting Professorship, University of Science and Technology of China, Northwest University
- 2014 - 2017 Reader in Energy, Chemical Engineering, UCL
- 2012 - 2018 Visiting Professorship, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
- 2012 - 2015 Honorary Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
- 2011 - 2014 Senior Lecturer in Energy, Chemical Engineering, UCL
- 2009 - 2001 Lecturer in Energy, Chemical Engineering, UCL
- 2005 - 2009 Senior Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
- 2002 - 2005 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan.
Fields of Scholarship
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Charge dynamics
- Microwave catalysis
- Photocatalysis
- Catalytic plastic recycling
- Solar fuel synthesis
- Photoelectrochemistry
Honours and Awards
- 2021 The Corday-Morgan Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2020 - now Fellow of European Academy of Sciences, European Academy of Sciences
- 2020 Runner-up of the IChemE Research Project Award 2020, The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
- 2019 Cheung Kong Honorary Scholar, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
- 2019 - now Editor, Applied Catalysis B
- 2019 The IChemE Global Business Start-Up Award, IChemE
- 2019 Runner-up of the IChemE Global Oil and Gas Award, IChemE
- 2018 IPS Scientist Award, The 22nd International Conference on Chemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy
- 2016 - now Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Advanced Chemical Engineering
- 2016 - now Associate Editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering
- 2014 - now Fellow of RSC, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2014 - now Associate Editor-in-Chief, Chin. J. Catalysis
- 2015 - now Member of the Interest Group Committee, RSC Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
- 2014 Runner-up of the Global Innovator of the Year, IChemE
- 2012 - 2016 Vice President (two terms), The Chinese Society of Chemical Science and Technology in the UK
- 2008 Young Scientist Award, The International Association of Catalysis Societies
- 2003 - 2005 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- 2001 Outstanding President Prize, The Chinese Academy of Sciences
