Congratulations to the awardees of the 2025 Carbon Future Young Investigator Award

It is our great pleasure to announce and congratulate the awardees of the 2025 Carbon Future Young Investigator Award. Established in 2024, this award recognizes young researchers (PhD student or postdoctoral researcher) who have demonstrated exceptional research potential and innovative capabilities in the fields of carbon materials, carbon catalysis, low-carbon energy, or chemical engineering.

 

Since the initiation of the event in 2025, we have received over one hundred outstanding nominations from around the world. Following a meticulous screening and unbiased review process by the award committee, we have identified 10 recipients of the Carbon Future Young Investigator Award, along with 30 recipients of the Honorable Mention Award. Not only have they made significant contributions in their respective research areas, but they have also demonstrated exceptional scientific potential and innovative capabilities in carbon-related science and technology fields.

 

We sincerely appreciate all nominators for their dedicated guidance and support, which has played a pivotal role in nurturing young scholars and advancing the field of carbon science.

 

List of awardees for the 2025 Carbon Future Young Investigator Award (Sort by surname order):

Awardee	Affiliation	Nominator
Zirui Gao	Peking University	Prof. Ding Ma
Shaoyun Hao	Rice University	Prof. Haotian Wang
Yajie Hu	Tsinghua University	Prof. Liangti Qu
Xiyi Li	University College London	Prof. Yang Lan
Di Lu	Zhejiang University	Prof. Xiulin Fan
Rui Wang	Northwestern University	Prof. Song Jin
Dawei Xi	Harvard University	Prof. Michael J. Aziz
Qiucheng Xu	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ISIC	Prof. Xile Hu
Kaiyue Zhao	Peking University	Prof. Bingjun Xu
Zhiling Zheng	University of California, Berkeley	Prof. Omar M. Yaghi

                                                       

List of awardees for the 2025 Carbon Future Young Investigator Honorable Mention Award (Sort by surname order):

Awardee	Affiliation	Nominator
Lin Chai	Tsinghua University	Prof. Fei Wei
Na Chen	Wuhan University	Prof. Quan Yuan
Weiyin Chen	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Prof. Ju Li
Xiaowen Chen	Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences	Prof. Hongyang Liu
Zhihao Cui	The Ohio State University	Prof. Anne Co
Michael Filippi	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Prof. Peter Strasser
Xiaobin Gu	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	Prof. Hui Huang
Zhenyi Gu	Northeast Normal University	Prof. Xinglong Wu
Qihao Li	Cornell University	Prof. Héctor D. Abruña
Xiyao Li	Tsinghua University	Prof. Qiang Zhang
Ruihu Lu	University of Auckland	Prof. Ziyun Wang
Jan Paul Menzel	Yale University	Prof. Victor S Batista
Suman Patra	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science	Prof. Abhishek Dey
Chen Peng	Fudan University	Prof. Gengfeng Zheng
Haifeng Qi	Cardiff University	Prof. Graham Hutchings
Justin C. Wedal	Yale University	Prof. Nilay Hazari
Bin Wu	Nanyang Technological University	Prof. Tristan Petit
Zhi-Zheng Wu	University of Toronto	Prof. David Sinton
Luoxing Xiang	Duke University	Prof. Liang Feng
Haocheng Xiong	Tsinghua University	Prof. Qi Lu
Yifei Xu	Peking University	Prof. Bingjun Xu
Hang Yang	University College London	Prof. Guanjie He
Jianwei Yang	Beijing Institute of Technology	Prof. Xiao Feng
Xuepeng Yang	Anhui University	Prof. Shikuo Li
Sunmoon Yu	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Prof. Yang Shao-Horn
Haochen Zhang	California Institute of Technology	Prof. Karthish Manthiram
Shuoqing Zhang	Shanghai JiaoTong University	Prof. Tao Deng
Meng Zhao	Tsinghua University	Prof. Qiang Zhang
Shenghui Zhou	Nanyang Technological University	Prof. Hua Chun Zeng
Zihui Zhou	University of California, Berkeley	Prof. Omar M. Yaghi

The award is generously sponsored by Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University Press, and Ordos Laboratory. Each awardee of the Carbon Future Young Researcher Award will receive a certificate and a prize of $1000. Honorable Mention Award recipients will be granted a certificate from the journal. Each awardee will be invited to submit a paper related to their research to Carbon Future to share their scientific findings and insights.

The award ceremony will be held during the opening ceremony of the 2nd International Symposium on Carbon Future on 19-23 July 2025 in Ordos, China. All the awardees will be invited to participate in the ceremony and the conference, where you can present your research and engage in discussions with global scientists to explore the future directions of carbon science.

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to all the awardees and look forward to their continued success and accomplishments in their future research endeavors. Additionally, we hope that this award will inspire more young researchers to immerse themselves in carbon-related research, collectively advancing the sustainable development of global carbon science.

 

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About Carbon Future

 

Carbon Future (https://www.sciopen.com/journal/2960-0561) is an open access, peer-reviewed and international interdisciplinary journal sponsored by Tsinghua University and published by Tsinghua University Press. It serves as a platform for researchers, scientists, and industry professionals to share their findings and insights on carbon-related materials and processes, including catalysis, energy storage and conversion, as well as low carbon emission process and engineering. It features cutting-edge research articles, insightful reviews, perspectives, highlights, and news and views in the field of carbon (the article publishing charge is covered by the Tsinghua University Press).

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