Educations and Work Experiences：

PhD, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) (2007.08-2012.04)

Postdoctoral Researcher, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) (2012.05-2014.05)

Associate Professor, Shaanxi Normal University (2014.06-2019.03)

Professor, Shaanxi Normal University (2019.03至今)

Research interests:

Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation

Awards and Honors:

2025, First Prize of Shaanxi Provincial Natural Science Award (2nd Contributor)

2025, First Prize of Outstanding Scientific and Technological Research Achievements in Shaanxi Universities (1st Contributor)

2021, First Prize of Shaanxi University Science and Technology Award (2nd Contributor)

2021, Young Scholar, High-Level Talent Support Program of the Ministry of Education

2017, Shaanxi Provincial Hundred Talents Program for Young Scholars

2017, Award for China’s Top 100 Most Influential International Academic Papers

2012, Doctoral Award in Environment and Sustainability Research, World Future Foundation

Research Projects as Principal Investigator:

1. General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant No. 22379088, Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation of Manganese Phosphate-Based Materials with Diverse Coordination Configurations, 2024/01–2027/12, 500,000 RMB.

2. General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant No. 21872092, Investigation on Asymmetrically Coordinated Manganese Structures for Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation, 2019/01–2022/12, 660,000 RMB.

3. Key Program of Shaanxi Province, Grant No. 2025JC-QYCX-016, Kinetic Study of Cobalt-Based Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation Reactions via Scanning Electrochemistry, 2025/01–2027/12, 200,000 RMB.

Representative Publications:

1. Shujiao Yang, Hongyu Liang, Kaihang Yue, Xiaohan Liu, Zhiyuan Yin, Haonan Qin, Sisi Li, Yujia Fan, Haoquan Zheng, Xue-Peng Zhang,* Rui Cao, Ya Yan,* Shuangyin Wang,* Wei Zhang,* Discovering the pH-independent Oxygen-Oxygen Formation via Direct Mn-oxo Coupling, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2026, 65, e24172.

2. Ying Chen, Zhuoya Pei, Yao Dai, Shujiao Yang, Haitao Lei, Ting Wang, Jiwu Zhao,* Liang Huang*, Rui Cao, Ya Yan*, Wei Zhang,* Dynamic Heterovalent Dual-Cu Sites for O=O Cleavage in Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction，Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2026, 65, e9291507.

3. Shujiao Yang, Kaihang Yue, Xiaohan Liu, Sisi Li, Haoquan Zheng, Ya Yan,* Rui Cao, Wei Zhang,* Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation with Manganese Phosphates, Nat. Commun., 2024, 15, 1410.

4. Shujiao Yang, Xialiang Li, Yifan Li, Yabo Wang, Xiaotong Jin, Lingshuang Qin, Wei Zhang,* Rui Cao,* Effect of Proton Transfer on Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by Manganese Phosphates, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202215594.

5. Jing Qi, Yang-Peng Lin, Dandan Chen, Tianhua Zhou, Wei Zhang,* Rui Cao, Autologous Cobalt Phosphates with Modulated Coordination Sites for Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 8917.