博士毕业于南洋理工大学（新加坡），国家级青年人才。主持国家自然科学基金优秀青年基金（海外）、深圳市团队等科研项目。主要从事电化学理论计算，探索能源转化过程中关键反应的反应机理和高活性催化剂的理论设计，取得了一系列突破性的原创研究成果。迄今，发表SCI论文40余篇，其中以第一作者（含共一）发表论文19篇，分别收录于Nat. Catal.、Nat. Commun.、Sci. Adv.、Adv. Mater.、Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.、J. Am. Chem. Soc.等材料与能源期刊。论文被引用超过3800次，12篇入选ESI高被引论文（Top 1%,其中7篇一作），H指数30。研究成果获得了国际同行的高度评价，曾被Renew Economy、Science Codex、Phys. Org等媒体予以亮点报道和专题评述。

研究领域：功能材料理论计算，专注于电化学能量转换、储能和光伏等领域的材料理论设计和机理探索。

学习经历：

2013-2018 新加坡南洋理工大学，材料科学与工程，博士

2009-2013 山东大学，材料科学与工程，学士

工作经历：

材料科学与能源工程学院，副教授，博士生导师

2018-2023 新加坡南洋理工大学，材料科学与工程，博士后

系统探索并建立了尖晶石材料催化电化学析氧反应的构效关系、重构理论和设计方案。

1.Y. Sun†, H. Liao†, J. Wang, B. Chen, S. Sun, S. Ong, S. Xi, C. Diao, Y. Du, J. Wang, Mark B. Breese, S. Li, H. Zhang, Z. Xu*. Covalency Competition Dominates the Water Oxidation StructureActivity Relationship on Spinel Oxide.Nature Catalysis2020, 3, 554.

2.Y. Sun†, J. Wang†, S. Xi†, J. Shen, S. Luo, J. Ge, S. Sun, Y. Chen, J. Hanna, S. Li, X. Wang, Z. Xu*. Navigating Surface Reconstruction of Spinel Oxides for Electrochemical Water Oxidation.Nature Communications2023, 14, 2467.

3.Y. Sun†, X. Ren†, S. Sun*, Z. Liu, S. Xi, Z. Xu*. Engineering High-Spin State Cobalt Cations in Spinel Zinc Cobalt Oxide for Spin Channel Propagation and Active Site Enhancement in Water Oxidation.Angewandte Chemie International Edition2021, 60, 14536.

4.Y. Sun, S. Sun, H. Yang, S. Xi*, J. Gracia*, Z. Xu*. Spin-selected Electron Transfer and Orbital Interactions in Oxygen Electrocatalysis.Advanced Materials2020, 32, 2003297.

5.Y. Sun, G. Chen, S. Xi, Z. Xu*. Catalytically Influential Features in Transition Metal Oxides.ACS Catalysis2021, 11, 13947.

6.Y. Chen†,Y. Sun†, M. Wang†, J. Wang, H. Li, S. Xi, C. Wei, P. Xi, G. E. Sterbinsky, J. W. Freeland, A. C. Fisher, J. W. Ager, Z. Feng*, Z. Xu*. Lattice-Site-Dependent Metal Leaching in Perovskites towards a Honeycomb-Like Water Oxidation Catalyst.Science Advances2021, 7, eabk1788.

7.C. Wei†,Y. Sun†, G. Scherer, A. Fisher, M. Sherburne, J. Ager, Z. Xu*. Surface Composition Dependent Ligand Effect in Tuning the Activity of Nickel-copper Bimetallic Electrocatalysts towards Hydrogen Evolution in Alkaline.Journal of the American Chemical Society2020, 142, 7765.

8.R. Chen†,Y. Sun†, S. Ong, S. Xi, Y. Du, C. Liu, O. Lev, Z. Xu*. Antiferromagnetic Inverse Spinel Oxide LiCoVO4with Spin-Polarized Channels for Water Oxidation.Advanced Materials2020, 32, 1907976.

9.S. Sun†,Y. Sun†, Y. Zhou†, S. Xi, X. Ren, B. Huang, H. Liao, L. Wang, Y. Du, Z. Xu*. Shifting Oxygen Charge towards Octahedral Metal: A Way to Promote Water Oxidation on Cobalt Spinel Oxides.Angewandte Chemie International Edition2019, 58, 6042.

10.H. Wang†,Y. Sun†, Y. Wu, W. Tu, S. Wu, X. Yuan, G. Zeng, Z. Xu, S. Li, J. W. Chew*. Electrical Promotion of Spatially Photoinduced Charge Separation via Interfacial-built-in Quasi-alloying Effect in Hierarchical Zn2In2S5/Ti3C2(O,OH)xHybrids toward Efficient Hydrogen Evolution and Environmental Remediation.Applied Catalysis B: Environmental2019, 245, 290.

11.J. Zhang†,Y. Sun†, J. Zhu, Z. Kou, P. Hu, L. Liu, S. Li, S. Mu*, Y. Huang*. Defect and Pyridinic Nitrogen Engineering of Carbon-based Metal-free Nanomaterial toward Oxygen Reduction.Nano Energy2018, 52, 307.

12.J. Zhang†,Y. Sun†, J. Zhu, Z. Gao, S. Li, S. Mu*, Y. Huang*. Ultranarrow Graphene Nanoribbons toward Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions.Advanced Science2018, 5, 1801375.

13.H. Liao†,Y. Sun†, C. Dai, Y. Du, S. Xi, F. Liu, L. Yu, Z. Yang, Y. Hou, A. Fisher, S. Li*, Z. Xu*. An Electron Deficiency Strategy for Enhancing Hydrogen Evolution on CoP Nano-electrocatalysts.Nano Energy2018, 50, 273.

14.T. Wang†,Y. Sun†, Y. Zhou, S. Sun, X. Hu, Y. Dai, S. Xi, Y. Du, Y. Yang*, Z. Xu*. Identifying Influential Parameters of Octahedrally Coordinated Cations in Spinel ZnMnxCo2-xO4Oxides for Oxidation Reaction.ACS Catalysis2018, 8, 8568.

15.X. Ren†, T. Wu†,Y. Sun†, Y. Li, G. Xian, X. Liu, C. Shen, J. Gracia, H. Gao, H. Yang*, Z. Xu*. Spin-polarized Oxygen Evolution Reaction under Magnetic Field.Nature Communications2023, 14, 2467.

(* Corresponding author; † Equal contribution)