Dr. Kai Huang

Kai Huang was educated in Beijing (China), Toronto (Canada) and Berlin (Germany). He obtained his BSc from Peking University in 2006, and his PhD with Prof. John Polanyi (Nobel Laureate) from the University of Toronto in 2011. In the following years, he conducted research work at the University of Toronto and at the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck- Gesellschaft, prior to joining GTIIT as an assistant professor of chemistry in the fall of 2018. At GTIIT, the Huang laboratory studies physics and chemistry at solid surfaces, by ultrahigh vacuum scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy (experiment), and by first principles computations (theory). Of particular note, our expertise centers at the control of surface dynamics to fabricate, characterize and understand novel surface materials for energy, catalysis and health applications.