Professor Minhua Shao
Head and Chair Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Minhua Shao is also the director of the HKUST Energy Institute. He earned BSc and MSc degrees in chemistry from Xiamen University and a PhD degree in materials science and engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Shao joined UTC Power in 2007, leading the development of advanced electrocatalysts for fuel cells, and was promoted to UTC Technical Fellow in 2012. In 2013, he joined Ford Motor Company to conduct research on lithium-ion batteries. He then joined HKUST in 2014. He is the Technical Editor of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society.