(1) Hydrogen-involved process reengineering for de/hydrogenation and nitrogen fixation, and carbon fixation.

(2) Mechanism-driven process and catalyst design via pulse chemistry, in situ/operando, time-resolved spectroscopy and kinetic modelling.

(3) Environmental small molecules conversion (H₂O, N₂, CO₂).

(1) 2011/09-2015/06: Dalian University of Technology, Ph.D., Materials Physics & Chemistry

(2) 2005/09-2008/03: Fuzhou University, M.S., Industrial Catalysis

(3) 2001/09-2005/07: Xinyang Normal University, B.S., Chemical Education

(1) 2025/02-present: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Professor

(2) 2019/06-2024/12: Dalian University of Technology, School of Chemistry, Professor

(3) 2016/05-2018/04: Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ), Spain, Postdoc

(4) 2015/07-2016/04: Institute of Meal Research, CAS, Postdoc

(5) 2008/08-2011/08: Shenyang Research Institute of Chemical Industry, Engineer

[1]  Rui Huang#, Meihan Xia#, Yunlong Zhang, Chenxi Guan, Yao Wei, Zheng Jiang, Mingrun Li, Baibei Zhao, Xiaohui Hou, Yan Wei, Qiao Chen, Jingting Hu, Xiaoju Cui, Liang Yu*, Dehui Deng*, Acetylene Hydrogenation to Ethylene by Water at Low Temperature on a Au/α-MoC Catalyst, Nat. Catal. 2023, 6, 1005-1015

[2]  Rui Huang#, Jeroen Rintjema#, Joan González-Fabra, Eddy Martín, Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán, Carles Bo*, Atsushi Urakawa*, Arjan W. Kleij*, Deciphering Key Intermediates in The Transformation of Carbon Dioxide into Heterocyclic Products, Nat. Catal. 2019, 2, 62-70

[3]  Wangwang Zhang#, Kelechi Uwakwe#, Jingting Hu, Yan Wei, Juntong Zhu, Wu Zhou, Chao Ma, Liang Yu*, Rui Huang*, Dehui Deng*, Ambient-condition Acetylene Hydrogenation to Ethylene over WS2-confined Atomic Pd Sites, Nat. Commun. 2024, 15, 9457

[4]  Yuanhong Lu#, Qiao Chen#, Yunlong Zhang, Yan Wei, Xiaohui Hou, Rui Huang*, Dehui Deng*, Accelerating Semi-hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde by Water over a Au/α-MoC Catalyst, ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 10113

[5]  Yan Wei#, Shuang Wang#, Yunlong Zhang, Mingrun Li, Jingting Hu, Yanting Liu, Jian Li, Liang Yu*, Rui Huang*, Dehui Deng*, Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes by Onsite-generated Surface Hydroxyl from Water, ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 15824-15832

(1) Zhang Dayu Young Scholar of DICP, 2025

(2) Dalian High-Level Talent, 2025

(3) Marie Curie COFUND fellowship at ICIQ, 2016