• Precision Design of Molecular Catalysts
• Photo/Electrocatalytic Energy Conversion

2016.09 – 2022.08 Ewha Woman University (Seoul, South Korea) Ph.D.

2013.09 – 2016.06 Shaanxi Normal University (Xi’an, Shaanxi) M.S.

2009.09 – 2013.06 Xi'an Polytechnic University (Xi’an, Shaanxi) B.S.

2026.03 – present Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) (Dalian, China) Professor

2023.08 – 2026.03 Yale University (New Haven, United States of America) Postdoctoral Fellow

2022.09 – 2023.07 Ewha Woman University (Seoul, South Korea) Postdoctoral Fellow

1.    Kedang Chen^*, Jindou Yang^* “Reprogramming CO₂ Reduction through Interfacial Water” Nat. Rev. Chem. 2026, just Accepted.

2.    Jindou Yang^#, Virginia Larson^#, Daniel Castella, Devin Wilson, Ying Xing; Mi Sook Seo, Yong-Min Lee, Ava Slobin, Shunichi Fukuzumi^*, Shearer Jason Shearer^*, Nicolai Lehnert^*, Wonwoo Nam^* “Preparation,

Spectroscopic Characterization and Reactivity of High-Valent Non-Oxo Co(IV) and Formally Co(V) Complexes” JACS Au 2025, 5, 3575-3588.

3.    Emmanuel Fosu^*, Jindou Yang^* “Machine-Made Chemistry” Nat. Rev. Chem. 2025, 9, 806.

4.    Jindou Yang^#, Guilherme L. Tripodi^#, Max T. G. M. Derks, Mi Sook Seo, Yong-Min Lee, Kendal W. Southwell, Jason Shearer*, Jana Roithová*, Wonwoo Nam* “Generation, Spectroscopic Characterization, and Computational Analysis of a Six-Coordinate Cobalt(III)-Imidyl Complex with an Unusual S = 3/2 Ground State that Promotes N-Group and Hydrogen Atom-Transfer Reactions with Exogenous

Substrates” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 26106–26121.

5.    Xialiang Li^#, Ping Li^#, Jindou Yang^#, Lisi Xie, Ni Wang, Haitao Lei, Chaochao Zhang, Wei Zhang, Yong-Min Lee, Weiqiang Zhang*, Shunichi

Fukuzumi*, Wonwoo Nam*, Rui Cao* “A Cobalt(II) Porphyrin with a Tethered Imidazole for Efficient Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Electrocatalysis” J. Energy Chem. 2023, 76,

617–621.

6.     Jindou Yang^#, Ping Li^#, Xialiang Li^#, Lisi Xie, Ni Wang, Haitao Lei, Chaochao Zhang, Wei Zhang, Yong-Min Lee, Weiqiang Zhang*, Rui Cao*, Shunichi Fukuzumi*, Wonwoo Nam* “Crucial Roles of a Pendant Imidazole Ligand of a Cobalt Porphyrin Complex in the Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reduction of Dioxygen” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202208143.

7.    Jindou Yang^#, Hai T. Dong^#, Mi Sook Seo, Virginia A. Larson, Yong-Min Lee, Jason Shearer*, Nicolai Lehnert*, Wonwoo Nam* “The Oxo-Wall Remains Intact: A Tetrahedrally Distorted Co(IV)-Oxo Complex” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 16943−16959.

8.    Jindou Yang^#, Mi Sook Seo^#, Kyung Ha Kim, Yong-Min Lee, Shunichi Fukuzumi*, Jason Shearer*, Wonwoo Nam* “Structure and Unprecedented Reactivity of a Mononuclear Nonheme Cobalt(III) Iodosylbenzene Complex” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 13581–13585.