Principle Investigator
Ming Zhao | 赵明
Assistant Professor (03/2023 - Present)
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
National University of Singapore
Phone: (+65) 6516 1993
Email: mingzhao@nus.edu.sg
Office: E2-05-23
Professional Experience
2023 - Now Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
2019 - 2022 Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University (Advisor: Prof. Peng Chen)
Education
2015 - 2019 Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology (Advisor: Prof. Younan Xia)
2012 - 2015 M.E., Nanjing University (Advisor: Prof. Jianguo Liu)
2008 - 2012 B.S., Nanjing University
Selected Honors & Awards
Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigators, 2024
NRE Young Star Researcher Award (Gold Award), 2022
Sigma Xi Best Doctoral Dissertation, 2020
William Emerson First Place Presentation Award, 2019
MRS Best Poster Award Nominee, 2018
Cherry Emerson Fellowship, 2015
Professional Offices & Services
Subject Editor, Progress in Engineering Science (2024 - present)
Guest Associate Editor of a special topic on Diversifying Chemical Synthesis with Cascade Catalysis, Frontiers in Chemistry, 2024
Guest Editor of a special Issue on Early Career Electrochemists in Asia, ChemElectroChem, 2024
Member of Young Advisory Board, Green Carbon, 2023
Member of Young Advisory Board, Nano Materials Science, 2023
Selected Presentations
Super-resolution imaging of nonfluorescent molecules on nanocatalysts, 1st International Symposium on Chemical and Biomedical Imaging (CBMI-1), Nanjing, China, August 2024 (Keynote Speaker)
Long-range adsorption enhancement on metal-promoted photocatalysts, 34th Chinese Chemical Society Congress, Guangzhou, China, June 2024
Nanoscale mapping of molecular adsorption for materials design and heterogeneous catalysis, 3rd Singapore ECS International Symposium on Energy Materials, Singapore, July 2023
Nanocatalysts with novel crystal phases and their structure-property relationship toward heterogeneous catalysis, Nano Research Energy Symposium, December 2022
Engineering both the crystal phase and surface structure of noble-metal nanocrystals, American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting, Atlanta, United States, August 2021
Rational synthesis of Ru-based nanocages with a face-centered-cubic and evaluation of their catalytic activities, Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, Phoenix, United States, April 2018
Mechanism investigation of proton exchange membrane fuel cells, The 5th World Hydrogen Technologies Convention (WHTC2013), Shanghai, China, September 2013