Dr. Yaxuan Jing is currently a Gusu Young Professor at Institute for the Environment and Health (Suzhou Campus) at Nanjing University and establishing the Lab of Green Catalysis for Waste Valorisation. His research interests lie in the fields of advanced catalysis, green chemistry, and environmental engineering, with a focus on creating value from waste plastic and biomass through innovative catalytic systems.
2023.06- Gusu Young Professor （姑苏青年教授，研究员，博导）
Head of Green Catalysis for Waste Valorisation Lab
Institute for the Environment and Health (Suzhou Campus)
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse
Nanjing University (NJU)
Research: Catalytic conversion of plastic and biomass
2021.01-2023.05 Shanghai Super Postdoctoral Fellow
East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST)
Advisor: Prof. Yanqin Wang
Research: Catalytic upcycling/upgrading of waste plastic
Heterolytic dissociation of H2 and bond activation in biomass/plastic
Reductive amination of biomass-derived compounds
2019.10-2020.10 Joint Ph.D in Chemical Engineering
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Advisor: Prof. Ning Yan
Research: Catalytic upcycling/upgrading of waste aromatic plastic
Coordination environment-dependent performance in plastic conversion
2016.09-2021.01 Ph.D in Industrial Catalysis
East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST)
Advisor: Prof. Yanqin Wang
Research: Catalytic conversion of biomass into high-quality fuels
Catalytic upcycling/upgrading of waste aromatic plastic
C-O/C-C activation-cleavage
2012.09-2016.07 B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry
East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST)
Selected awards
2023 IChemE & CCST Young Investigator Award
2021 CPCIF-Clariant Youth Innovation Award for Sustainable Development
2021 Shanghai Super Postdoctoral fellow
2020 Baosteel Education Award
2019 Chinese National Scholarship
2019 "Qian Yi" Environment Award
2018 "Zhang Jiangshu" Excellent PhD Scheme
