EDUCATION:

2016 – 2018   joint Ph.D., MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim, Germany.

2014 – 2016   Ph.D., Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 

Shenyang, China.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2021–Now:Assistant Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of 

Sciences, Dalian, China

2018 - 2021: Postdoctoral Fellow. Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of 

Sciences, Dalian, China

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

(1) Single-atom Catalysis; (2) In situ Catalytic Study.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

[1] X.X. Shi^#, Z.L. Wen^#, Q.Q. Gu^#, B. Yang*, T. Zhang, X.J. Wu*, J.L. Lu* et al, Metal–support 

Frontier Orbital Interactions in Single-atom Catalysis, Nature, 2025, 640, 669-675.

[2] Z.L. Wang, D.B. Shu, C.M. Ding*, Q.Q. Gu*, A.Q. Wang, B. Yang* et al, Dynamic Interplay between 

Particle Size and Strong Metal Support Interaction in Rh/TiO₂ Tuning the Selectivity of CO₂ 

Hydrogenation, ACS Catal, 2025,15, 4101-4109.

[3] Q.Q. Gu^#, H.J. Lin^#, A.Q. Wang, F. Liu*, B. Li*, B. Yang* et al, Tuning the Active Oxygen Species of Two-Dimensional Borophene Oxide toward Advanced Metal-Free Catalysis, ACS Nano, 2024, 18, 30574-30583.

[4] C.M. Ding^#, Q.Q. Gu^#, L.J. Yu*, J.W. Wang*, B. Yang*, T. Zhang et al, Reversible Transformation and Distribution Determination of Diverse Pt Single-Atom Species, JACS, 2023, 145, 2523-2531.

  [5] Q.Q. Gu, D.S. Su*, T. Zhang et al, Reduced graphene oxide: A metal-free catalyst for aerobic 

  oxidative desulfurization, Green Chem, 2017, 19, 1175-1181.