Professor Chunshan SONG
宋春山
FHKEng [2025]
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Dean of Science and Wei Lun Professor of Chemistry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Fellow, American Chemical Society
- Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
- Distinguished Fellow, International Association of Carbon Capture
- Pioneer in Energy Research Award, American Chemical Society, USA, 2025, ACS Journal "Energy & Fuels"
- Distinguished Fellow, International Association for Carbon Capture, 2024, UK
- Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2024, UK
- Outstanding Achievement Award, Chinese American Chemical Society, 2022, USA
- George A. Olah Award, American Chemical Society, 2019, USA
- Global Alumni Fellow, Osaka University, 2017, Japan
- Distinguished Researcher Award, ACS Petroleum Chemistry Div., 2011, USA
- Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award, North American Catalysis Society, 2011, USA
- Faculty Scholar Medal in Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2011, USA
- Henry H. Storch Award, American Chemical Society, 2010, USA
- Fellow, American Chemical Society, 2010, USA
- Herman Pines Award, Catalysis Club of Chicago, North American Catalysis Society, 2007, USA
- Chang Jiang Scholar Award, Ministry of Education, 2006, China
- Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, State Department, 2004, US-UK
- Honorary Professor, Tianjin University, 2017 - present
- Honorary Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), 2024 - present
- Honorary Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2025 - present
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus, the Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2020 - present
- Adjunct Professor, Dalian University of Technology, 2023 - present
Prof. Chunshan Song is the Dean of Science and Wei Lun Professor of Chemistry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Fuel Science and Chemical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University in the US. He has made pioneering contributions to sustainable energy solutions including ‘molecular basket’ sorbents engineering for adsorptive CO2 separation, tri-reforming for industrially useful syngas, catalytic CO2 conversion, adsorptive desulfurization and plasma catalytic conversion of SO2. With 550 refereed journal papers, 15 books, 8 patents and h-index of 113 (Google Scholar), he is a world-renowned leader in energy, heterogeneous catalysis and chemical engineering.
PhD
Applied Chemistry
Osaka University, Japan
1989
MS
Applied Chemistry
Osaka University, Japan
1986
BS
Chemical Engineering
Dalian University of Technology, China
1982