Professor of Energy Materials
State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University
Dr Xiangdong Yao is a Chair Professor of Energy Materials at Jilin University. He finished his Primary, Senior and Tertiary education in China. He obtained his BEng at Northeastern University in 1989 and MEng at Northwestern Polytechnical University in 1992 respectively for Materials Science and Engineering. From 1992 to 2000, he was employed in Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences as Research Associate (1992), Assistant Professor (1995) and Associate Professor (1998). In 2000, he went to The University of Queensland where he was granted the PhD degree in Materials Engineering in 2005, working on the computational modeling for microstructure formation in light metals. From November 2003, he joined the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials at The University of Queensland. Since November 2009, he relocated at Griffith University as an Associate Professor and the group leader of Advanced Energy Materials, and promoted to full Professor in late 2012. He return to Jilin University China with a National Expert Professorship, working on materials design, synthesis and applications in new energy. Dr Yao’s current research focuses on Energy Materials, especially hydrogen-related materials.