Biography

Franklin (Feng) Tao, PhD, is a tenure-track assistant professor of chemistry. After receiving a PhD from Princeton University and being a postdoctoral fellow at UC-Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, he started his independent career in 2010. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013. Currently, he is leading a research group focusing on synthesis, evaluation of catalytic performance, and in situ and operando characterization of catalytic materials in catalytic reactions for chemical and energy transformations toward fundamental understanding of catalytic processes at the molecular level. He has published about 100 peer-reviewed publications and three books with Wiley and the Royal Society of Chemistry.