Yang Hu

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Yang Hu is an Associate Professor in the Electrochemical Materials section at DTU Energy, and the leader of In-operando Electrocatalysis Group. He currently supervises six PhD students, two postdoctoral researchers, and several MSc and BSc students. His research group focuses on in-operando studies of electrocatalysts, with particular emphasis on catalyst synthesis for precise structural control and on the evolution of catalyst structures and interfaces under industrially relevant operating conditions. The group’s research is closely linked to applications in electrolyzers, fuel cells, and the electrosynthesis of e-fuels and e-chemicals. He is currently leading research activities in five projects: Villum-CAT3D (2024–2029), EU-SustainCell (2023–2029), DFF-RADICAL (2023–2027), IFD-MakeFCLast (2023–2027), and DTU POC-P2X TEST (2024).

Together with collaborators, his group has developed and applied a broad suite of in-situ and in-operando characterization techniques to investigate catalyst synthesis mechanisms and structural evolution under working conditions. These techniques include high-temperature X-ray diffraction, TGA-MS, TPR-MS, in-situ TEM, and identical-location TEM for studying catalyst synthesis processes, as well as in-operando electrochemical XRD, surface-enhanced IR and Raman spectroscopy, in-line ICP-MS, and environmental XPS for probing the structural evolution of electrocatalysts across diverse applications.

He is the responsible teacher for two courses at DTU: the MSc course 47302, Experimental Course on Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers, and the PhD course 47514, Advanced Electrochemistry. His welcomes students and researchers with a strong interest in electrocatalysis, nanomaterial synthesis and testing, and in-situ or operando characterization to carry out different types of project or collaborate through visiting research stay.