Chen Peng

Dr. Chen Peng was born in 1995, Wuhan, China. He obtained his bachelor's degree in engineering at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT, China) in June 2018. From May 2015 to June 2018, he was an undergraduate researcher under the supervision of Prof. Liqiang Mai and Prof. Qinyou An at WUT. Then, he moved to Fudan University (FDU, China) in September 2018 and earned his PhD degree at FDU in June 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Gengfeng Zheng. During the summer of 2019, he visited the Canadian Light Source and Western University (Canada). From July 2023 to June 2025, he was an ARC-Grant Funded Researcher A at The University of Adelaide (Now Adelaide University, Australia), with his supervisors being Prof. Shi-Zhang Qiao and Prof. Yao Zheng. Since June 2025, He has been a Postdoctoral Scholar at Northwestern University (United States) under the supervision of Prof. Edward H. Sargent.

Now, his main interests are electrochemical CO2/CO reduction. He has published 16 peer-reviewed research articles as the first (or co-first)/corresponding authors in the international journals of Chem, Nat. Commun., Nat. Biomed. Eng., Adv. Mater. (x2), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., ACS Catal. (x2), Adv. Energy Mater. (x3), etc. His papers have been cited over 2000 times (H-index 24, Google Scholar), with the average citation over 60 times per article.

He was invited as the independent reviewer of high-impact journals, such as Nat. Chem., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., J. Energy Chem., etc. He also acted as a Young Editorial Board Member of eScience, Chinese Chemical Letters, and Carbon Neutralization, and a Guest Editor of Micromachines.

He also obtained many honors and awards, including Official Nominator for the VinFuture Prize (3 million USD), Nano Research Energy Young Star Researcher-Gold Award, Carbon Future Young Investigator Honorable Mention Award, Rising Talents Prize at the ENFL Virtual Asia-Pacific Graduate Student Symposium-ACS Fall, Chunyu Scholarship by Neware Company (Shenzhen), 14th Academic Star Special Award by Fudan University, Shanghai Outstanding Graduate Award, Tongji Kelan Education Scholarship-Special Award of Academician Dongyuan Zhao, National Scholarship for PhD Students, Dow Chemistry Scholarship, Xianghui Scholarship, China Building Materials Scholarship, etc.