Prof. Chunshan Song

Chunshan SONG is the Dean of the Faculty of Science and Wei Lun Professor of Chemistry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Pennsylvania State University in the US where he was Director of Energy Institute, Distinguished Professor of Fuel Science and Chemical Engineering, and the founding Director of the University Coalition for Fossil Energy Research consisting of 15 US universities funded by the US Department of Energy. He received PhD and MS in Applied Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Masakatsu Nomura at Osaka University, Japan, and BS in Chemical Engineering from Dalian University of Technology, China. He began CO2 research in the 1990s, and is widely recognized as one of the world leaders in CO2 capture and utilization research. His work focuses on the catalysis and chemistry of energy and fuels including CO2 capture, catalytic/plasma-catalytic CO2 conversion to chemicals and fuels; adsorptive desulfurization and catalytic processing of fuels; shape-selective catalysis; synthesis and application of nano-porous materials. He has 560 refereed journal articles, 9 patents, 15 edited books, and 35 book chapters (with 60,000 citations and H-index of 118 in Google Scholar, Jul 2026). He has received George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry and Henry H. Storch Award in Energy Chemistry from American Chemical Society (ACS), Fulbright Distinguished Scholar from US-UK; ACS Fellow; ACS Energy & Fuels Distinguished Researcher Award; Outstanding Achievement Award from the Chinese American Chemical Society; Chang Jiang Scholar Award from Ministry of Education of China; Fellow of RSC; and Distinguished Fellow of International Association for Carbon Capture. Within Penn State, he was recognized by the Faculty Scholar Medal, Distinguished Professor, Faculty Mentoring Award, and Matthew and Anne Wilson Award for Excellence in Research. Most recently he received the Michele Aresta Prize in CO2 Utilization Research at ICCDU in Lisbon, Portugal in 2025, and the 2025 Pioneer in Energy Research (PIER) by the ACS journal “Energy and Fuels” in the field of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). He was elected as 2025 Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (HKAE).