Yang Shao-Horn to join the Chemistry Faculty
Shao-Horn, the JR East Professor of Engineering, will hold a joint appointment in Chemistry, alongside the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and DMSE.
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to welcome Professor Yang Shao-Horn to the faculty as a jointly appointed Professor of Chemistry, alongside the Department of Mechanical Engineering, where she holds a primary appointment, and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, where she holds a secondary appointment.
Shao-Horn received her Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Beijing University of Technology, and a PhD in the same discipline from Michigan Technological University. Before coming to MIT in 2002, she was a staff scientist at the Eveready Battery Company in Westlake, Ohio, where she researched materials for various types of batteries. She later received a National Science Foundation International Research Fellowship to work with Claude Delmas at the Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry in Bordeaux, France. Outside of her professorial duties, she serves as senior editor for accounts of Materials Research of the American Chemical Society and on advisory and editorial boards for several leading journals.
Shao-Horn’s research is centered on exploiting chemical/materials physics to understand and control kinetics and dynamics at interface and in bulk for energy storage and making of sustainable fuels and chemicals. Such fundamental understanding is used to design processes and materials for applications including Li-ion batteries, metal-air batteries, water splitting, CO2 reduction and N2 reduction.
