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Biography

Dr. Xianbiao Fu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a Principal Investigator at the NUS Centre for Hydrogen Innovations (CHI). From 2021 to 2024, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Surface Physics & Catalysis (SurfCat) Center within the Department of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark. In 2022, he was awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship by the European Union. Currently, his group’s research focuses on electrocatalysis, electrochemical engineering, and electrosynthesis, specifically concentrating on electrochemical ammonia synthesis, nitrogen activation, and ammonia energy. He serves on the Young or Early Career Editorial Boards of Nano Letters, Journal of Energy Chemistry, Materials Horizons, eScience, Nano Research, and other leading journals. He serves as a reviewer for major awards and research funding programs, including the State Natural Science Award of the People’s Republic of China and the Swiss National Science Foundation. His recent honors include the MIT Technology Review TR35 Innovator Award, the Carbon Future Young Investigator Award, the Best Editor Award of Nano Research (2023 and 2024), the 1st Rising Stars in Materials Today Catalysis (2024), the Dream Chemistry Award Top 5 Prize (2025), and selection as an Emerging Investigator of Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2026). He was also named to the Stanford-Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists List (2024).