Dr Xue Yong PhD
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Lecturer Electrical Engineering and Electronics
- Work email Xue.Yong@liverpool.ac.uk
About
Personal Statement
Dr. Xue Yong received her Ph.D. in the Department of Physics at the University of Saskatchewan in 2016. Subsequently, she joined the Institute of High-Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore, where she served as a Scientist I from 2017 to 2019. In 2019, following the receipt of a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, she relocated to the University of Calgary. Dr. Yong was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and commenced at the University of Sheffield in 2023.
In 2024, she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics at the University of Liverpool with her Early Career Fellowship and was appointed as a lecturer. Her research group primarily focuses on the computational design of novel functional materials for energy applications, with a specific emphasis on energy conversion, energy storage, and catalysts for small molecular conversions of CO2, H2O, and N2.