Yanhui Yang

Dr. Yang received B.S. and M. S. degree in chemical engineering from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Yale University in 1998, 2001 and 2005, respectively. His Ph. D. advisor was Professor Gary Haller. Yang joined the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore as an assistant professor in August 2005, and was promoted to be associate professor with tenure in chemical engineering in 2010. Yang’s primary research area is heterogeneous catalysis over metals and metal oxides, in particular, he is interested in understanding the fundamental catalytic concepts and phenomena using well-defined model catalyst and chemically probed reactions. Yang’s research was funded by MOE, A-star, NEA, NRF, and NTU in Singapore, Nanjing Tech University and the Department of Education, Jiangsu Province in China. He has published more than 230 research articles and attracted over 10000 citations, H-index 50. Yang joined the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Nanjing Tech University in 2017 as a full-time faculty member. Yang also served as the Vice-President of Singapore Catalysis Society, Assistant Chair of Graduate Study in NTU, Vice-Dean of the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and Dean of the College of Overseas Education in Nanjing Tech University, China.