Dr. Shu Hu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University, joint with the newly formed Energy Sciences Institute on the Yale West Campus. His group studies photocatalysis in the context of multi-scale reaction environments. His lab is interested in high quantum efficiency photocatalytic chemical conversion, considered a game changer in sustainable chemical and materials transformation, with research directions spanning from photocatalysis, and semiconductor-liquid interfaces, to nanoscale semiconductor synthesis and operando spectroscopy. His group's impact has been recognized through several awardsincluding the DOE Early Career Award, ECS Young Investigator Award for Energy Technology, MRS Emerging Researcher, and Global Chinese Chemical Engineer Awards, and was given several named lectureships including the Schottky Lectureship at TUM and Brown & Williamson Chemistry Lectureship at the University of Louisville. He currently serves as the Secretary of the New England Catalysis Society. Dr. Shu Hu received his PhD. from Stanford University in Materials Science and Engineerin. Between 2012 and 2015, he did postdoctoral work in the Department of Chemistry with Professor Nathan S. Lewisat California Institute of Technology, where he discoveredcoating-stabilized photochemical interfaces.
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