Yongsheng Chen received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1994. He attended the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, carried out research work on surface physics at the Institute of Physics in Beijing, and received his M.S. in Physics in 1997. He came to the U.S. in 1998, advanced his graduate studies in heterogeneous catalysis at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and obtained a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2003. Dr. Chen started his postdoctoral training at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, working with Staff Scientist John L. Fulton on various research topics using synchrotron based x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy. He joined the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State University as an assistant professor in November 2007 after a short appointment as a Research Associate at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.
Yongsheng Chen
Email
yzc2@psu.edu
Phone
814-865-9834
Office Address
155 Hosler Building
Title
Assistant Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering
Research Interests
Bioenergy, catalytic conversion of biomass, nanomaterials for energy applications
Materials characterization using X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (XANES and EXAFS)
Steam reforming, sulfur poisoning
Chemistry, Nanomaterials, and Physics
Education
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
M.S. in Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University
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