An assistant professor at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 
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A climate/material scientist with multidisciplinary background in geochemistry, electrochemistry, & biochemistry and extensive experience of advanced synchrotron multiscale material characterization and life cycle assessment for the sustainable design of resilient infrastructure materials in adaption to climate change. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He received his B.E. in Civil Engineering from Beijing University of Technology. He was a postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, then the Ernest O. Lawrence Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He was a staff scientist (career-infinite) before moving to UMich.

 

He expanded his research interests from civil infrastructure materials to the strategies of mitigation and adaptation of climate change (e.g., sustainable & resilient infrastructure for natural/built environment, carbon capture, utilization & storage, renewable energy, waste upcycling, industry decarbonization, and engineered biomaterials).