Dr. Yuhua Duan is a Physical Scientist at NETL and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota. His research activities include the development of sorbents for gas separation technologies and energetic materials for novel batteries and fuel cells, the study of sensors for harsh environmental applications, multi-scale modeling of energy systems, and quantum information science (QIS) application to energy-related research and technology development. His expertise and interests span both atomistic-scale simulations with machine learning techniques and multi-scale modeling of materials and processes applied to energy technologies. He is leading the NETL QIS work group to develop quantum sensing and quantum computing capabilities. He has authored/co-authored more than 200 publications. Dr. Duan serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Micro and Nanosystems and as an associate editor of AIP Advances, IET Quantum Communications, and Academia Quantum. Dr. Duan has won Federal Executive Board Excellence in Government Awards (Silver, 2016), Parsons and NETL On-the-Spot Awards (2009, 2011, 2017–2022), Sustained Excellence in Tritium Science Research Award by DOE-NNSA Tritium Technology Program (2025), and is listed among the top 2% of scientists worldwide both for career-long impact and for single-year impact (2020–2025).