Dr Tang is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Energy in Chemical Engineering at University College London (UCL) and an Honorary Lecturer in Chemistry at Imperial College London.
Dr Tang received his PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2001, and has been awarded a highly competitive Outstanding President’s Prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Between 2002-2005, he had been a researcher and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow in the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. In 2005, he moved to the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, as a senior research associate to concentrate on mechanistic studies on photocatalysis, aiming to explore the key barriers limiting solar energy conversion efficiency. At the beginning of 2009, Dr Tang joined the Department of Chemical Engineering, UCL as a Lecturer in Energy.