2013.09 – 2018.06  East China University of Sci. and Tech., Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry,Supervisor: Prof. Jinlong Zhang

2009.09 – 2013.06  Yantai University, B.S. in in Applied Chemistry

2025.01 – Present  Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Associate Professor

2023.07 – 2024.12  The University of Hong Kong,Postdoc,Advisor: Prof. Z.X.Guo

2021.04 – 2023.04  CNRS(French),Postdoc,Advisor: Dr. Andrei Khodakov

2018.07 – 2021.04  Peking University,Postdoc,Advisor: Prof. Ding Ma

• Efficient catalytic systems for hydrogen storage/production
• Photo/-thermal catalytic valorization of low carbon molecules (e.g., CH4, CO2)
• Novel reaction routes for light-driven water splitting coupled with C-H activation

1. Dong, C.^#; Wang, Y.^#; Khodakov, A.*; Ordomsky, V.*, et al., Photocatalytic Dihydroxylation of Light Olefins to Glycols by Water. Nat. Commun., 2024, 15, 8210.

2. Y. Wang, C. Dong^*, V. Ordomsky^*, A. Khodakov^*, et al., In-situ exploration of divergent methane coupling pathways in dry and aqueous environments on silver and palladium heteropolyacid-titania photocatalysts. Appl. Catal. B., 2024, 358, 124400.

3. Dong, C.; Khodakov, A.*; Ordomsky, V.*, et al., Direct Photocatalytic Synthesis of Acetic Acid from Methane and CO using Water as Oxidant at Ambient Temperature. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 1185.

4. Dong, C.; Khodakov, A.*; Naghavi, N.*; Ordomsky, V.*, et al., Photocatalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane to Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen over CIGS Solar Cell, Appl. Catal. B., 2023, 325, 122340.

5. Dong, C.^#; Gao, Z. ^#; Li, Y. ^#; Peng, M. ^#; Wang, Y-G.*; Liu, H.*; Zhou, W.*; Ma, D.*, et al., Fully-exposed Pd Cluster Catalysts Enable Hydrogen Production from N-Heterocycle. Nat. Catal. 2022, 5, 485.

6. Wang, Z.^#; Dong, C.^#; Tang, X.^#; Dai, S.*; Ma, D.*, et al., CO-tolerant RuNi/TiO₂ Catalyst for the Storage and Purification of Crude Hydrogen. Nat. Commum., 2022, 13, 4404.

7. Dong, C.; Ma, D.*, et al., Supported Metal Clusters: Fabrication and Application in Heterogeneous Catalysis. ACS Catal. 2020, 10 (19), 11011-11045.

8. Dong, C. ^#; Lian, C. ^#; Xing, M.*; Zhang, J., et al., Size-dependent activity and selectivity of carbon dioxide photocatalytic reduction over platinum nanoparticles. Nat. Commun., 2018, 9 (1), 1252.

9. Dong, C.; Xing, M.*; Zhang, J.*, Double-cocatalysts promote charge separation efficiency in CO₂ photoreduction: spatial location matters. Mater. Horiz., 2016, 3 (6), 608-612.

10. Dong, C.; Xing, M.*; Zhang, J.*, Economic Hydrophobicity Triggering of CO₂ Photoreduction for Selective CH₄ Generation on Noble-Metal-Free TiO₂–SiO₂. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2016, 7, 2962.

Shanghai Baiyulan Talent Program_Youth (2025)

Beijing National Center for Molecular Sciences, BMS Junior Fellow (2021)

Peking University, Boya Postdoctoral Support Program (2018)

East China University of Science and Technology, Gan Tian-Odis Scholarship (2018)

East China University of Science and Technology, Outstanding Graduation Thesis (2019 Review)

East China University of Science and Technology, Talent Graduate (2018)

East China University of Science and Technology, Talent Student (2017)

East China University of Science and Technology, National Scholarship (2016)