Haipeng Lu is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His group works on developing inorganic chemistry approaches to address challenges related to renewable energy and sustainability. He received his BSc in chemistry from Nanjing University in 2012, and completed his PhD in 2017 in chemistry at the University of Southern California. He then moved to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) as a postdoctoral fellow. He is the recipient of 2019 ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Young Investigator Award and 2025 HKUST School of Science Research Award.