Principal Investigator

Research Experience
• 2022 - now, Dean, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University
• 2019 - now, Professor & Doctoral Supervisor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University
• 2019 - now, Dean, Institute of Clean Energy (ICE), Peking University
• 2021 - 2022, Vice Dean, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University
• 2020 - 2021, Vice Dean, College of Engineering, Peking University
• 2010 - 2019, Associated Professor & Doctoral Supervisor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University
• 2012 - 2016, PI, Singapore-Peking University Research Center for Low Carbon Future (SPURc)
• 2008 - 2010, Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
• 2006 - 2008, JSPS Fellow (DC), Japan 
• 2004 - 2008, Ph.D. (Engineering), Kobe University & AIST

Research Interersts
(1) Functional porous materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion; (2) Nanoconfining phase change materials for energy storage and thermal management; (3)Engineering emerging porous materials for molecular adsorption and separation: Hydrogen storage/purification and carbon capture

Professional Honors and Awards
• Head of National Major Scientific Instruments and Equipments Development Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2023)
• Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Advisor of Beijing (2022)
• Clarivate Analytics’ Global Highly-Cited Researcher (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)
• Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Advisor of Peking University (2021, 2019, 2018,2016)
• Exemplary Member of the Communist Party of Peking University (2021)
• Chief Scientist of Key R&D Program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2021)
• World's Top 2% Scientists (2020)
• Outstanding Academic Report Award of Asian International Forum of Japanese Chemical Society (2019)
• The Outstanding Youth Scientist Foundation of NSFC (2018)
• Peking University Wangxuan Young Scientist Award (2017)
• Changjiang Scholar for Young Scientist (2016)
• The National Young Top-notch Talent of Ten Thousand Talent of China (2014)
• The Excellent Youth Scientist Foundation of NSFC (2013)
• The New Star Program of Beijing Committee of Science and Technology (2012)
• The Ministry of Education Program for New Century Excellent Talents of China (2011)

Selected Publication
1. Wei, Y.; Zhang, M.; Zou, R.*; et al. “ Metal–Organic Framework–Based Catalysts with Single Metal Sites ”,Chem. Rev, 2020, 120, 21, 12089–12174.
2. Zhang, H.; Xia, W.; Shen, H.; Guo, W.; Liang, Z.; Zhang, K.; Zhu, B.; Zou,* R. “ Antiperovskite Intermetallic Nanoparticles for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction ”,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. , 2020, 132, 1887–1893.
3. Guo, W.; Zhang,K.; Liang, Z.; Zou, R.* ; et al. “Electrochemical Nitrogen Fixation and Utilization: Theories, Advanced catalyst Materials and System design ”,Chem. Soc. Rev., 2019, 48, 5658–5716.
4. Zhao, R.; Liang, Z.; Gao, S.; Yang, C.; Zhu, B.; Zhao, J.; Qu, C.; Zou, R.* ; et al. “Puffing up Energetic Metal–Organic Frameworks to Large Carbon Networks with Hierarchical Porosityand Atomically Dispersed Metal Sites ”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 1975–1979.
5. Asif, M.; Li, S.; Ali, Z.; Hassina, T.; Zhu, B.; Liang, Z.; Meng, W.; Waseem, A.; Guo, W.; Zhang, H.; Muhammad Y.; Gao, S.; Zou, R.* ; et al. “Ultrafast Sodium/Potassium–Ion Intercalationinto Hierarchically Porous Thin Carbon Shells ”, Adv. Mater., 2018, 1805430.