应北京化工大学化工资源有效利用国家重点实验室王周君副教授课题组邀请, 美国哥伦比亚大学化工系Jingguang Chen教授于2019年5月22日到访实验室，并为我校师生做了题为“Tackling CO₂ Issues by Chemical Conversion and by Reducing CO₂ Emission”的学术报告。　　

　　在报告中，Jingguang Chen教授基于理论计算筛选催化体系，借助单晶模型验证计算结果，进而定向设计了各种新型高效的CO₂热化学与电化学转化催化剂，同时通过先进的原位在线表征技术对反应机理进行了深入研究，并对未来CO₂转化的前沿进行了展望。报告结束后，Jingguang Chen教授与在座师生就感兴趣的问题进行了交流探讨。Jingguang Chen教授的报告让师生们学习了世界先进的催化研究方法，并对CO₂活化转化的催化机理有了更深入的理解。

　　Jingguang Chen教授简介：

　　Jingguang Chen is the Thayer Lindsley Professor of chemical engineering at Columbia University, with a joint appointment as senior chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He received his BS degree from Nanjing University and PhD degree from the University of Pitt**urgh. He then carried out his Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral research in KFA-Julich in Germany. After spending several years as a staff scientist at Exxon Corporate Research Laboratories, he started his academic career at the University of Delaware in 1998 and rose to the rank of the Claire LeClaire Professor of chemical engineering and the Director of the Center for Catalytic Science and Technology. He moved to Columbia University in 2012. He is the co-author of 23 United States patents and 400 journal publications that have been cited over 25,000 times. He is currently the President of the North American Catalysis Society and an Associate Editor of ACS Catalysis. He received many awards, including the 2015 George Olah award from the American Chemical Society, the 2017 Robert Burwell Lectureship from the North American Catalysis Society, and the 2019 R.B. Anderson Award from the Canadian Catalysis Division.