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Feifei Shi currently serves as an assistant professor of energy engineering in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State. He holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Shi's research interests broadly encompass the intersection of surface chemistry, material science, and mechanical engineering, with an emphasis on integrated energy systems, such as catalysis, battery technology, and nuclear energy systems. He earned his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Fudan University in China in 2010, followed by a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015. Before joining Penn State in August 2019, Shi worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University from 2016 to 2019. He has received numerous awards, including the 2023 NSF CAREER Award and the 2022 J&J WiSTEM2D Scholar award from Johnson & Johnson. He has published 55 articles with an h-index of 38 and serves as a guest editor for Frontiers in Energy Research.
Penn State • University Park, PA
Teaching and conducting research in energy engineering.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Research in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
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