Xile Hu#
| Membership Number: | 5374 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lsci/hu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8335-1196 |
| Twitter: | @HuLab_EPFL |
Present and Previous Positions
- June 2016 – present Full Professor of Chemistry, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- January 2013 – May 2016 Associate Professor of Chemistry, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- July 2007 – December 2012 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Fields of Scholarship
- Organometallic chemistry
- Inorganic materials
- Bioinorganic chemistry
- Electrocatalysis
- Homogeneous catalysis
Honours and Awards
- 2020 International Catalysis Award, International Association of Catalysis Societies
- 2019 Fellow, European Academy of Sciences
- 2019 Royal Society of Chemistry Homogeneous Catalysis Award
- 2018 Resonate Award, Caltech
- 2017 National Latsis Prize, Swiss National Science Foundation and the Latsis Foundation
- 2017, 18, 19 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics)
- 2017 Tajima Prize, International Society of Electrochemistry
- 2017 Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship Award, ACS
- 2016 Bau Family Award in Inorganic Chemistry
- 2015 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant
- 2015 Young Researcher Award, European Federation of Catalysis Societies
- 2014 Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
- 2014 European Medal for Bio-Inorganic Chemistry (Eurobic Medal)
- 2014 Organometallics Young Investigator Fellow, American Chemical Society
- 2014 Rising Star, International Conference on Coordination Chemistry
- 2013 Chemical Society Reviews Emerging Investigator Lectureship, RSC
- 2012 Member, Young Academy of Europe
- 2012 Extraordinary Young Scientist, World Economic Forum
- 2011 Werner Prize, Swiss Chemical Society
- 2010 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
