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Biography

Bo-Qing Xu is a Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). He completed his doctorate in heterogeneous catalysis at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP, Chinese Academy of Sciences) in 1988. After working as a research associate at DICP for three years, he joined the faculty of the School of Chemical Engineering at Dalian University of Technology (DUT) and became a full Professor in 1992. He also worked as a visiting scientist at Northwestern University and Georgia Institute of Technology in late middle of 1990s, and a short-term visiting professor at UC Berkeley of USA in2002. His research interest mainly focuses on heterogeneous catalysis for sustainable chemistry in energy conversion. He has authored 260+ peer-reviewed publications and owns 23 patents.