Dr Yang Xu

Dr Yang Xu is an Associate Professor in Energy Storage in the Department of Chemistry at University College London (UCL). He received his PhD at the University of Science and Technology of China, carried out postdoctoral research at Boston College (US) and the University of Alberta (Canada), and worked as a Senior Scientist at Technische Universität Ilmenau (Germany). He joined UCL Chemistry as a Lecturer in 2019 and was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2023. His research focuses on next-generation battery materials and chemistries, with special interest in cation intercalation mechanism, metal batteries, and anionic redox activity. He recently joined the Faraday Institution CATMAT project as a Co-I. He is the recipient of the MINE Outstanding Young Scientist Award (2019), the EPSRC New Investigator Award (2020), and the STFC Early Career Award (2023).