Qingfeng Ge

　　　　 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Southern Illinois University

Carbondale, IL 62901 USA

Time: 10:00Am, Monday, Apr. 9, 2012,

Place: Room 607, #2 Building

Contact: Jianjun Liu (Tel: 52411078, Email: jliu@mail.sic.ac.cn)

Biography:

Dr. Qingfeng Ge is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Dr. Ge received his education from Tianjin University, China, obtaining B.S., M.S., and Ph.D degrees in Chemical Engineering. He worked as a Postdoctoral scholar in Copenhagen University, Denmark, Cambridge University, U.K. and a research scientist at University of Virginia. He joined SIUC as an Assistant Professor in 2003, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 and to Professor in 2010. A main thrust of his research is using modeling/simulation to address materials issues related to energy and environment. His experiences ranged from experimental characterization and kinetics modeling of catalysts to first principles based simulations of various materials. He is one of the 70 recipients of the Presidential Hydrogen Fuel Initiative awards in the US in 2005. He authored/coauthored more than 90 book chapters/journal papers and gave similar number of presentations.