Prof. Yi-Chun Lu received her B.S. degree in Materials Science & Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in 2007 and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science & Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012. She joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2013 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018, and Professor in 2022.

Prof. Lu is the Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, Founding Member of Young Academy of Science of Hong Kong, and was the recipient of the RGC Research Fellow (2022), Xplorer Prize (2021), International Battery Materials Association (IBA) Early Career Award (2021), Top 10 Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year Award (2020), Excellent Young Scientists, National Natural Science Foundation of China (2019), Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council Early Career Award (2014) and CUHK awards including University Education Award (2016) Young Researcher Award (2016), United College Early Career Research Excellence Award (2018) and Research Excellence Award (2021) etc.

Her research interest centers on developing fundamental understandings and material design principles for clean energy storage and conversion. In particular, her research group focuses on electrode and electrolyte design for high-energy aqueous batteries, metal-air, and metal-sulfur batteries; redox-active components and solution chemistry for redox-flow batteries; mechanistic understanding of interfacial phenomena governing electrochemical energy conversion and storage processes.

Prof. Lu currently serves as an Associate Editor and Board Member for Journal of Materials Chemistry A (Royal Society of Chemistry), and Editorial Board/Advisory Member for Energy & Environmental Science (Royal Society of Chemistry), Materials Today (Elsevier), and Chemistry of Materials (American Chemical Society).