Keynote speaker: Jingrun Ran

Jingrun Ran, The University of Adelaide

Dr Jingrun Ran received his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Adelaide. Currently he is appointed as a senior lecturer in School of Chemical Engineering in University of Adelaide. He is awarded with the ARC Future Fellowship in 2023. And he was awarded with the ARC DECRA Fellowship in 2020. His research is focused on the atomic-level design and synthesis of photocatalysts for producing energy fuels and value-added chemicals using renewable solar energy.

Jingrun has been recognised as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2020-2023 and recognized as the World’s Top 2% Scientists (released by Stanford University) in 2020-2023. He has also been recognised as a Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigator in 2021. He has published 62 papers in well-renowned journals, including Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Energy Environ. Sci., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Energy Mater., Chem. Soc. Rev., Sci. Adv. (over 17934 citations, h index: 39 based on Google Scholar).

His research is focused on the atomic-level design and fabrication of advanced photocatalysts towards various key reactions (e.g., reforming plastics, reforming biomass, light alkane activation and CO2 conversion) using renewable solar energy. Both state-of-art in-situ/ex-situ characterizations and density functional theory based calculations are adopted to unravel the atomic-level structure-performance relationship in photocatalysts as well as the in-depth and delicate photocatalysis mechanism. All these findings are concluded to develop the emerging high-performance photocatalysts.