Gang Wu

Biography

Gang Wu is a professor of chemical engineering with expertise in electrochemical science and engineering. He completed all his degrees, including Ph.D., at the Harbin Institute of Technology in 2004. After carrying out extensive postdoctoral training at Tsinghua University, the University of South Carolina, and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), he became a staff scientist at LANL in 2010 and then joined SUNY-Buffalo as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2014. He was quickly promoted to a tenured associate professor in 2018 and a full professor in 2020. After one decade of service at SUNY-Buffalo, he joined Washington University in St. Louis in 2024.

Research

His current research focuses on advanced electrocatalysis and catalysis for hydrogen and carbon-neutral electrochemical energy technologies, such as polymer electrolyte fuel cells, water electrolysis, CO2 reduction, electrosynthesis and carbon-free nitrogen electrochemistry. He is also interested in developing clean energy-related heterogeneous catalysis, including efficient ammonia synthesis and cracking to overcome the grand challenges of hydrogen storage and transportation. Wu is a leading scientist in exploring single-metal-site catalysts for sustainable electrocatalysis, evidenced by his over 340 papers in prestigious journals and citations of around 55,000 times with an H-index of 125 (Google Scholar by August 2024). Wu was continuously acknowledged by Clarivate Analytics as one of the Highly Cited Researchers since 2018. He serves as an Associate Editor for a few journals, including the Journal of the Electrochemical Society (JES), the Electrochemical Society’s flagship journal.