It is our great pleasure to announce and congratulate the awardees of the 2025 Carbon Future Young Investigator Award. Established in 2024, this award recognizes young researchers (PhD student or postdoctoral researcher) who have demonstrated exceptional research potential and innovative capabilities in the fields of carbon materials, carbon catalysis, low-carbon energy, or chemical engineering.
Since the initiation of the event in 2025, we have received over one hundred outstanding nominations from around the world. Following a meticulous screening and unbiased review process by the award committee, we have identified 10 recipients of the Carbon Future Young Investigator Award, along with 30 recipients of the Honorable Mention Award. Not only have they made significant contributions in their respective research areas, but they have also demonstrated exceptional scientific potential and innovative capabilities in carbon-related science and technology fields.
We sincerely appreciate all nominators for their dedicated guidance and support, which has played a pivotal role in nurturing young scholars and advancing the field of carbon science.
List of awardees for the 2025 Carbon Future Young Investigator Award (Sort by surname order) :
Awardee
Affiliation
Nominator
Zirui Gao
Peking University
Prof. Ding Ma
Shaoyun Hao
Rice University
Prof. Haotian Wang
Yajie Hu
Tsinghua University
Prof. Liangti Qu
Xiyi Li
University College London
Prof. Yang Lan
Di Lu
Zhejiang University
Prof. Xiulin Fan
Rui Wang
Northwestern University
Prof. Song Jin
Dawei Xi
Harvard University
Prof. Michael J. Aziz
Qiucheng Xu
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ISIC
Prof. Xile Hu
Kaiyue Zhao
Prof. Bingjun Xu
Zhiling Zheng
University of California, Berkeley
Prof. Omar M. Yaghi
List of awardees for the 2025 Carbon Future Young Investigator Honorable Mention Award (Sort by surname order) :
Lin Chai
Prof. Fei Wei
Na Chen
Wuhan University
Prof. Quan Yuan
Weiyin Chen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Ju Li
Xiaowen Chen
Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof. Hongyang Liu
Zhihao Cui
The Ohio State University
Prof. Anne Co
Michael Filippi
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Prof. Peter Strasser
Xiaobin Gu
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof. Hui Huang
Zhenyi Gu
Northeast Normal University
Prof. Xinglong Wu
Qihao Li
Cornell University
Prof. Héctor D. Abruña
Xiyao Li
Prof. Qiang Zhang
Ruihu Lu
University of Auckland
Prof. Ziyun Wang
Jan Paul Menzel
Yale University
Prof. Victor S Batista
Suman Patra
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Prof. Abhishek Dey
Chen Peng
Fudan University
Prof. Gengfeng Zheng
Haifeng Qi
Cardiff University
Prof. Graham Hutchings
Justin C. Wedal
Prof. Nilay Hazari
Bin Wu
Nanyang Technological University
Prof. Tristan Petit
Zhi-Zheng Wu
University of Toronto
Prof. David Sinton
Luoxing Xiang
Duke University
Prof. Liang Feng
Haocheng Xiong
Prof. Qi Lu
Yifei Xu
Hang Yang
Prof. Guanjie He
Jianwei Yang
Beijing Institute of Technology
Prof. Xiao Feng
Xuepeng Yang
Anhui University
Prof. Shikuo Li
Sunmoon Yu
Prof. Yang Shao-Horn
Haochen Zhang
California Institute of Technology
Prof. Karthish Manthiram
Shuoqing Zhang
Shanghai JiaoTong University
Prof. Tao Deng
Meng Zhao
Shenghui Zhou
Prof. Hua Chun Zeng
Zihui Zhou
The award is generously sponsored by Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University Press, and Ordos Laboratory. Each awardee of the Carbon Future Young Researcher Award will receive a certificate and a prize of $1000. Honorable Mention Award recipients will be granted a certificate from the journal. Each awardee will be invited to submit a paper related to their research to Carbon Future to share their scientific findings and insights.
The award ceremony will be held during the opening ceremony of the 2nd International Symposium on Carbon Future on 19-23 July 2025 in Ordos, China. All the awardees will be invited to participate in the ceremony and the conference, where you can present your research and engage in discussions with global scientists to explore the future directions of carbon science.
We extend our heartfelt congratulations to all the awardees and look forward to their continued success and accomplishments in their future research endeavors. Additionally, we hope that this award will inspire more young researchers to immerse themselves in carbon-related research, collectively advancing the sustainable development of global carbon science.
About Carbon Future
Carbon Future ( https://www.sciopen.com/journal/2960-0561 ) is an open access, peer-reviewed and international interdisciplinary journal sponsored by Tsinghua University and published by Tsinghua University Press. It serves as a platform for researchers, scientists, and industry professionals to share their findings and insights on carbon-related materials and processes, including catalysis, energy storage and conversion, as well as low carbon emission process and engineering. It features cutting-edge research articles, insightful reviews, perspectives, highlights, and news and views in the field of carbon (the article publishing charge is covered by the Tsinghua University Press).