Xile Hu Explained

Honorific Prefix:Professor
Birth Place:Putian, China
Nationality:Swiss
Awards:National Latsis Prize (2017)
Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship (2017)
Resonate Award (2018)
Homogeneous Catalysis Award (2019)
International Catalysis Award (2020)
Highly Cited Researcher (2017-2021)
Website:https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lsci/
Alma Mater:Peking University
University of California, San Diego
California Institute of Technology
Doctoral Advisor:Karsten Meyer
Academic Advisors:Jonas C. Peters
Discipline:Chemistry
Sub Discipline:Catalysis
Workplaces:École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main Interests:Organometallic chemistry
Synthetic methodology
Homogeneous catalysis
Energy materials
Electrocatalysis
Bio-mimetic and bio-speculated coordination chemistry

Xile Hu (born 1978 in Putian, China) is a Swiss chemist specialized in catalysis. He is a professor in chemistry at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and leads the Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis at the School of Basic Sciences.[1] [2]

Career

Hu studied chemistry at Peking University and received his Bachelor’s degree in 2000. During his undergraduate, he worked with Jianhua Lin. He then joined the lab of Karsten Meyer at University of California, San Diego as PhD student and graduated with a thesis on "Metal complexes of tripodal N-heterocyclic carbene ligands: synthesis, structure, bonding, and reactivity."[3] [4] In 2005, he went to work as postdoctoral researcher with Jonas C. Peters at the California Institute of Technology. Here he initiated and developed a research project on molecular electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution.[5]

In 2007, he became Assistant Professor of chemistry at EPFL. In 2013, he was promoted as Associate Professor, and in 2016, he became Full Professor at EPFL. Since 2007 he has led the Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis at EPFL's School of Basic Sciences.

Research

Hu's research group directs an interdisciplinary research program to develop catalysis for sustainable synthesis of added-value chemicals and for cost-effective production of solar fuels.[6] They aim at the development of catalysts that are made of Earth-abundant elements and that enable the chemical transformations important in synthesis, energy, and sustainability.[7] They focus on base metal catalyzed organic synthesis, electrochemical water splitting,[8] CO2 reduction,[9] fuel cell catalysis,[10] and the development of synthetic models for the active site of metalloenzymes.[11]

Distinctions

In 2011, Hu won the Werner prize of the Swiss Chemical Society. In 2012 he was selected as an extraordinary young scientist by the world economic forum. In 2013, he received the Chemical Society Reviews Emerging Investigator Lectureship. In 2014, he won the European Medal for Bio-Inorganic Chemistry at the Eurobic conference. In 2015, he received the Young Researcher Award from the European Federation of Catalysis Societies. In 2016, he received the Bau Family Award in Inorganic Chemistry. In 2017, he was awarded with the National Latsis Prize by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the International Latsis Foundation,[12] the Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship for 2017, and the Tajima Prize by the International Society of Electrochemistry.[13] In 2018, he received the Resonate Award from Caltech,[14] in 2019, the Homogeneous Catalysis Award by Royal Society of Chemistry,[15] and in 2020, the International Catalysis Award by the International Association of Catalysis Societies.[16] Hu was named "Highly Cited Researcher" by Publons (Clarivate Analytics) for 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.[17]

In 2014, he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK),[18] and in 2019 fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.[19] Since 2020 he is a member of the Academia Europaea.[20]

Selected works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: LSCI. 2020-11-23. www.epfl.ch. en-GB.
  2. Web site: 23 professors appointed at ETH Zurich and EPFL ETH-Board. 2020-11-23. www.ethrat.ch.
  3. Web site: Xile. Hu. Metal Complexes of Tripodal N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, Bonding, and Reactivity.
  4. Hu. Xile. Castro-Rodriguez. Ingrid. Olsen. Kristian. Meyer. Karsten. 2004-02-01. Group 11 Metal Complexes of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Nature of the MetalCarbene Bond. Organometallics. 23. 4. 755–764. 10.1021/om0341855. 0276-7333.
  5. Hu. Xile. Brunschwig. Bruce S.. Peters. Jonas C.. 2007-07-01. Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution at Low Overpotentials by Cobalt Macrocyclic Glyoxime and Tetraimine Complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129. 29. 8988–8998. 10.1021/ja067876b. 17602556. 0002-7863.
  6. Web site: Research. 2020-11-26. www.epfl.ch. en-GB.
  7. Morales-Guio. Carlos G.. Liardet. Laurent. Mayer. Matthew T.. Tilley. S. David. Grätzel. Michael. Hu. Xile. 2015. Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production in Alkaline Solutions Using Cu2O Coated with Earth-Abundant Hydrogen Evolution Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. en. 54. 2. 664–667. 10.1002/anie.201410569. 25403656. 1521-3773.
  8. Thalluri. Sitaramanjaneya Mouli. Bai. Lichen. Lv. Cuncai. Huang. Zhipeng. Hu. Xile. Liu. Lifeng. 2020. Strategies for Semiconductor/Electrocatalyst Coupling toward Solar-Driven Water Splitting. Advanced Science. en. 7. 6. 1902102. 10.1002/advs.201902102. 2198-3844. 7080548. 32195077.
  9. Gu. Jun. Hsu. Chia-Shuo. Bai. Lichen. Chen. Hao Ming. Hu. Xile. 2019-06-14. Atomically dispersed Fe 3+ sites catalyze efficient CO 2 electroreduction to CO. Science. en. 364. 6445. 1091–1094. 10.1126/science.aaw7515. 31197014. 2019Sci...364.1091G. 189816234. 0036-8075. free.
  10. Chang. Jinfa. Feng. Ligang. Liu. Changpeng. Xing. Wei. Hu. Xile. 2014-04-17. Ni2P enhances the activity and durability of the Pt anode catalyst in direct methanol fuel cells. Energy & Environmental Science. en. 7. 5. 1628–1632. 10.1039/C4EE00100A. 1754-5706.
  11. Xu. Tao. Wodrich. Matthew D.. Scopelliti. Rosario. Corminboeuf. Clemence. Hu. Xile. 2017-02-07. Nickel pincer model of the active site of lactate racemase involves ligand participation in hydride transfer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. en. 114. 6. 1242–1245. 10.1073/pnas.1616038114. 0027-8424. 5307482. 28115700. 2017PNAS..114.1242X . free .
  12. Web site: National Latsis Prize 2017 awarded to chemist Xile Hu - SNF. 2020-11-26. www.snf.ch.
  13. Web site: International Society of Electrochemistry. 2021-04-23. www.ise-online.org.
  14. Web site: Resonate Awards 2018. 2020-11-26. Resnick Sustainability Institute. en.
  15. Web site: Homogeneous Catalysis Award. 2020-11-26. Royal Society of Chemistry. en-GB.
  16. Web site: 17th International Congress in Catalysis June 14–19, 2020 • San Diego, CA USA. 2020-11-26. 2020icc.com.
  17. Web site: xile hu's Publons profile. 2020-11-26. publons.com. en.
  18. 2019. Xile Hu. ChemCatChem. 11. 14. 3127. 10.1002/cctc.201900931. 221548027. 1867-3899. free.
  19. Web site: European Academy of Sciences - Xile Hu. 2020-11-26. www.eurasc.org.
  20. Web site: Academy of Europe: Hu Xile. 2020-11-26. www.ae-info.org.

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