This year’s BP Chemistry Lecture speaker will be Professor Yuhan Sun, Vice President, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
SUN Yuhan was born in October 1962. He received PhD from Institute of Coal Chemistry (ICC) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1989. He worked at Brunel University of the UK as a visiting scholar from 1992 to 1995. He is now the Vice President of preparatory committee of Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, CAS. Prof. SUN’s main research interests include C1 chemistry on coal/natural gas-based synfules and chemicals, catalysis and engineering for CO2 utilization, application of nano-materials in green chemistry and optical film, etc. He has published over 300 papers, with more than 40 patents authorized. Prof. SUN Yuhan is also on the board of Chemistry Society of China and that of Particle Society of China. He is member of China Energy Research Society, member of the Decision and Consultation Committee of Shanxi Provincial Government, editor-in-chief of Journal of Fuel Chemistry, deputy editor-in-chief of Natural Gas Chemical Engineering, and member of editorial board of Fuel and Technology, Clean Coal Technologies, Journal of Catalysis, Coal Conversion, Particoulogy, Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry, etc.