Nanostructured TiO2

Jia Hong Pan received his PhD degree from Inha University, Korea, in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Wan In Lee. Then he moved to Singapore, and worked at Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore as a research fellow. Meanwhile, he worked with Prof. Detlef Bahnemann at Leibniz University Hannover in 2012-2013 as a Humboldt Fellow. In October 2015, he joined North China Electric Power University as a full professor and later moved to Guangxi University in December 2023. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Catal. Lett. and Chem. Inorg. Mater., and on the International Scientific Committee of the International Conference of Semiconductor Photochemistry, as well as the International Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy. He has published over 140 papers, which have been cited over 8000 times (h-index: 44). Together with Detlef, he co-founded the International Joint Center for Nature-Inspired Carbon Neutrality Solutions. His current research interests focus on semiconductor photo(electro)catalysis, nanostructured inorganic materials, and electrochemical energy storage.

Wan In Lee retired as a Fellow Professor from the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Inha University, Korea, in September 2023 and is currently serving as an Emeritus Professor at the same institution. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemistry from Seoul National University, Korea, and his Ph.D. in Solid State Chemistry from Brown University, USA, in 1993. His research has centered on the investigation of charge transport phenomena in various nanostructured semiconductors. In particular, he has focused on the synthesis of metal oxide nanostructures, the design of visible-light-responsive photocatalysts, and the development of advanced nanostructure-based solar cells. He has served as President of several academic societies, including the Korean Society of Photoscience, the Korea Organic Photovoltaic Society, and the Materials Division of the Korean Chemical Society. Over the course of his career, he has authored more than 280 scientific publications.

Detlef W. Bahnemann has been retired as Head of the Research Unit Photocatalysis and Nanotechnology at the Leibniz University Hannover at the end of 2021 and is now Director of the "International Joint Center for Nature Inspired Carbon Neutrality Solutions" at Saint Petersburg State University in Russia as well as Distinguished Professor at Shaanxi University of Science & Technology in Xi'an (China). His research topics include photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, solar chemistry and photochemistry focused on synthesis and physical-chemical properties of semiconductor and metal nanoparticles. He has edited seven books, and published more than 750 publications with citations over 85,000 times (h-index: 120). He is Visiting Research Professor at Queens University Belfast, DeTao Master of Photocatalysis, Nanomaterials and Energy Applications, and holds a Guest Professorship at Tianjin University (China), and several visiting professorships in China, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Britain. In 2022, he became Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) and Member of the Academia Europaea (AE).