Visiting Professor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, August-November 2019
Associate Professor, Xiamen University Malaysia
weejun.ong@xmu.edu.my
Biography
Wee-Jun Ong received his BEng and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Monash University. In 2015, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales and Monash University. In 2016, he joined Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore as a Staff Scientist. After that, he joined the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering as an Assistant Professor at Xiamen University Malaysia in 2018 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. In 2019, he is a Visiting Scientist in the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) in Prof. Xinliang Feng’s group at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
His research interests focus on photocatalytic, photoelectrocatalytic and electrochemical H2O splitting, CO2 reduction and N2 fixation using nanomaterials. In 2018, he has been named the Emerging Investigator in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A. He has been the Lead Guest Editor of Special Issues in Solar RRL, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Chemistry – A European Journal, and Particle & Particle Systems Characterization. Currently, he serves as the Associate Editor of Frontiers in Chemistry, Board Member of Materials Horizons, Langmuir, Scientific Reports, Nanotechnology and Nano Futures.