Bio

Dr. Chen has a multidisciplinary background in environmental chemistry, environmental engineering, inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, and applied physics. His main research interest is green energy-driven resource recovery and environmental pollution control. He received his doctoral degree in inorganic chemistry from the Department of Environmental and Material Chemistry at Stockholm University in 2014, working with Prof. Junliang Sun and Xiaodong Zou. He continued his postdoc training at KTH-Royal Institute of Technology with Prof. Licheng Sun, Stanford University with Prof. Michael F. Toney, and University of California, Berkeley with Prof. Peidong Yang. In September 2018, he joined the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), where he is now an associate professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering. He has applied for more than 30 patents and published around 160 peer-reviewed papers with an h-index of 58 and more than 11426 Google Scholar citations. Most of the papers are published on prestigous journals, including PNAS, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Matter, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nano Letters, ACS Nano,Environmental Science & Technology/Letters, Green Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Communications, Water Research, ACS EST Engineering/Water, etc. He has obtained multiple research programs including Guangdong Outstanding Youth Fund, NSFC General Program, MOST Youth Special Project, Shenzhen Key Basic Research Project, Shenzhen Overseas High-Level Talent Program, and Wallenberg Foundation's MAX IV Synchrotron Radiation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Hong Chen has been honored as a Stanford-ranked World's Top 2% Scientist, his received many awards include ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award, Youth Environmental Chemistry Award of Chinese Chemical Society, Young Scientist Award of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, Outstanding Youth Contribution Award in Circular Economy Technology Innovation of China Nonferrous Metals Society, Gold Medal of Youth Science & Technology Award of Guangdong Society for Environmental Sciences. He serves as Associate Editor for Environmental Chemistry Letters and editorial board member for Fundamental Research, Sustainable Horizons, Chinese Chemical Letters, Environmental Surfaces & Interfaces, Environmental Functional Materials, Industrial Water Treatment, Engineering Sciences & Technology, Green Mining & Metallurgy, and Chemical Engineering Journal Advances. His serves as Committee Member of Solid Waste Branch of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, Council Member of Mineral Physics & Structure Committee of Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, Youth Committee Member of Chinese Society of Soil Science, Vice Chair of Soil Resources Environment & Carbon Neutrality Committee of Guangdong Soil Science Society, and Expert Consultant for Basel Convention Asia-Pacific Regional Centre on Chemicals and Waste Management.

Working Experiences

 Education Background

Academic Services

1. Associate Editor for Environmental Chemistry Letters (Q1, IF=15.7) and editorial board member for Fundamental Research, Sustainable Horizons, Chinese Chemical Letters, Environmental Surfaces & Interfaces, Environmental Functional Materials, Industrial Water Treatment, Engineering Sciences & Technology, Green Mining & Metallurgy, and Chemical Engineering Journal Advances.
2. He serves as the Committee Member of Solid Waste Branch of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, Council Member of Mineral Physics & Structure Committee of Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, Youth Committee Member of Chinese Society of Soil Science, Vice Chair of Soil Resources Environment & Carbon Neutrality Committee of Guangdong Soil Science Society, and Expert Consultant for Basel Convention Asia-Pacific Regional Centre on Chemicals and Waste Management.
3. Invited Reviewers for Nature, Nature Chemical Engineering, Nature Communications, JACS,  Advanced Materials, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., ChemSusChem, Dalton Transactions, CrysEngComm，International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Journal of Membrane Science, ChemPhysChem，ChemPlusChem，European Inorganic Chemistry， RCS Advances， Applied Clay Science, Journal of Membrane Science, Applied Surface Science.

Research Interests

The Chen group focuses on the "Green and Low-Carbon Resource Recycling and Pollution Control Chemistry of Critical Elements" as its core research direction, focusing on the green and low-carbon resource recycling and pollution control of critical elements in urban industrial, mining solid wastes and its derived waste water and waste gas. We are committed to developing new photochemical, electrochemical and thermochemical conversion processes, technologies and equipment, and deeply study the atomic-scale mechanism characterization technology of bulk and interface transformation during the circulation of key elements. At present, a series of original scientific theories for the circulation and pollution control of key elements has been established in our lab. Furthermore, we also developed new green and efficient low-carbon recovery and pollution control processes, new materials and new equipment for typical elements (such as Rare earth, Li, Ni, Co, Mn, Au, Ag, Pt, Cu, Ga, ge, In, Fe, P, Cl, Na, Mg, Ca, Al, C, etc.). These achievements can be effectively applied to the efficient recovery, removal and pollution control of valuable metals, salt ions and new organic pollutants (such as organic halides, antibiotics, dyes, etc.) in typical industrial solid waste and various decentralized waste water. In future, our research group aims to deeply understand and promote the green circulation and pollution control of key elements in modern industry through the interdisciplinary integration of environment, chemistry, physics, materials, mineralogy, energy and instrument science, starting from the forefront practical needs of environmental science and engineering.