Prof. Yang Shao-Horn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
When: September 30th, 2021
Where: zoom online meeting (login requests to crc(at)tum.de)
Biography
Professor Shao-Horn is W.M. Keck Professor of Energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), as well as Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Professor Shao-Horn earned her B.S. degree from Beijing University of Technology and her Ph.D. degree from Michigan Technological University both in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. She joined the M.I.T. faculty in 2002. Professor Shao-Horn’s research programs are centered on exploiting chemical/materials physics and physical/materials chemistry principles to understand charge transfer at the solid-gas and solid-liquid interface, which is used to design materials/processes and control the kinetics of (electro)chemical reactions, critical to enable the deployment of clean air and clean energy technologies. She is a member of National Academy of Engineering, and is among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds and Highly Cited Researchers (Thomson Reuters) based on ~330 archival journal papers (~48,000 citations and h-index of 102 on Google Scholar) and ~300 invited, keynote and plenary lectures in academia (e.g. Marvel Lecture 2017 and Cardona Lecture 2019), at industrial events (e.g., BASF Energy Symposium in 2015) and high-level strategic meetings (e.g., Ideaslab of World Economic Forum in Davos 2017).