Researcher and PhD Supervisor. Deputy Director of the National Energy R&D Center for Biofuels. National-level Young Talent, Principal Investigator of the National Key R&D Program, and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Guangdong Young Talent‌, also serves as Secretary-General of the Urban-Rural Mining Industry-University-Research Alliance‌. Focuses on the fundamental research and technological development for the field of clean and efficient energy conversion and resource utilization of carbon resources. Innovatively developed and pioneered the novel chemical looping gasification (CLG) technology at the international level, and established a complete technological system for CLG of organic solid waste, and the core technology has gradually been translated into practical applications. Meanwhile, research artificial photosynthesis to achieve the one-step conversion of H₂O and CO₂ into green methanol driven by solar energy. Published more than 160 SCI journal papers, cited over 10,000 times, authorized 12 invention patents. Awarded the Guangdong Provincial Award for Young Scientific and Technological Innovation, the first prize of Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Award, and the second prize of Henan Provincial Natural Science Award. Selected into the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and awarded the Outstanding Young Scientist and Technologist by the Chinese Renewable Energy Society. Presided over two National Key R&D Programs and four National Natural Science Foundation, and Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, over 20 projects. Highly evaluated by Professor Juan Adánez, Chairman of the International Conference on Chemical Looping, as “published the first literature on CLG” and “pioneering a remarkable research field”.

Selected Publications

1. Song Da, Yingchuan Zhang, Yan Lin, Shiwen Fang, Fang He, Zhen Huang*, Zhengxiao Guo. Hierarchically Nano-Assembled Oxygen Carriers for Chemical Looping[J]. Progress in Materials Science, 2025, 101540.

2. Li Yang, Song Da, Yuchao Zhou, Juan Fu, Zheng Liang, Shengwang Mo, Yan Lin, Shengxi Zhao, Hongyu Huang, Fang He, Cuiqin Li, Zhen Huang*. Nanoconfinement-Engineered Iron-Based Redox Catalysts: Precise Shell Thickness Gradients Enhanced Durability of Chemical Looping Hydrogen Production[J]. Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2025. 106, 1046-1055.

3. Da Song, Yan Lin, Shiwen Fang, Yang Li, Kun Zhao, Xinfei Chen, Zhen Huang*, Fang He, Zengli Zhao, Hongyu Huang, Fanxing Li. Unraveling the atomic interdiffusion mechanism of NiFe₂O₄ oxygen carriers during chemical looping CO₂ conversion. Carbon Energy, 2024, 6, e493.

4. Hongming Jiang, Yan Lin, Na Gao, Shiwen Fang, Duo Li, Zhen Huang*, Hongyu Huang. R-emoval performance of Nitrogen, sulfur and chlorine pollutants during chemical looping combustion of textile dyeing sludge using red mud as an oxygen carrier. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, 498, 155115.

5. Zhen Huang, Na Gao, Yan Lin, Guoqiang Wei, Kun Zhao, Anqing Zheng, Zengli Zhao, Haoran Yuan*, Haibin Li. Exploring the migration and transformation of lattice oxygen during chemical looping with NiFe₂O₄ oxygen carrier. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022, 429, 132064.

▪ High-value utilization of carbon-containing resources via chemical looping

▪ Artificial photosynthesis

1. National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No. 2025YFF0516500): Renewable energy‑driven CO₂ conversion for bio‑aviation fuel: theory and methodology. (December 2025-November 2030, Principal Investigator)

2. National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2022YFC3900500): Thermal removal of organic coatings for primary metal regeneration from aluminum-based waste: technology and equipment. (November 2022-October 2025, Principal Investigator)

3. National Natural Science Foundation of China: General Program (Grant No. 52576245)-Synergistic Mechanism of Chemical-Looping Co-Gasification of Municipal Sludge and Waste Plastic with Raw Material Mutual Feed. (January 2026- December 2029, Principal Investigator)

4. Key Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 2025B0303000016): Chemical-looping-mediated artificial photosynthesis for liquid solar fuel synthesis. (September 2025-August 2029, Principal Investigator)

5. Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Grant No. 2023B1515120062): Basic research on new technology for high-efficiency power generation via chemical-looping hydrogen production from natural gas coupled with fuel cells. (November 2023-October 2026, Principal Investigator)