Biography

Jing Gao started her study as a graduate student in Central South University with Prof. Xueyi Guo and earned her Ph.D. degree in November of 2019. During the start her Ph.D. study, she was working on transparent counter electrode for bifacial dye-sensitized solar cells. She also developed several quantum dots modified electrode to enhance the light harvesting of solar cell. She then joined Prof. Michael Graetzel's lab as a visiting Ph.D. student and had been working on electrolysis and  artificial photosynthesis system for two years.
In July of 2020, Jing moved to Switzerland and joined LPI as a postdoc. After working with Prof. Michael Graetzel for one year, she was promoted to be the group leader and continue to lead the "solar fuel" research subgroup since then. She was authored/co-authored >20 publications in prestigious academic journals and presented his work in >5 international conferences.  These papers have garnered >800 citations and 1 of them are ESI highly cited papers ( (top 1% in the discipline of Chemistry). Together with Prof. Graetzel, she has successfully secured several grants both at national and international levels, including 'Solar-Bio Fuels' from Gebert Rüf Stiftung, 'SUN2CHEM' from EU H2020, '112CO2' from EU H2020 and "Methasol" from EU H2020.