Dr. Shangfeng Du

Dr. Shangfeng Du is Associate Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham. He received his BEng in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1999. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China in 2005. After that, he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Germany, working in the Power Metallurgy Laboratory (PML). In 2007, he joined Birmingham as a Marie Curie Research Fellow, starting his research in fuel cells, and was awarded a Science City Research Fellowship from SCRA in 2009. He was appointed as a lecturer in 2015 to build and lead the Low-Temperature Fuel Cell and Electrolyser research. His research interests lie in the electrochemical engineering study of materials, components, and devices. He also carries out research on the characterization of the adhesion and aggregation of nanoparticles for health and energy applications.