2019.08-present: Professor, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China; 2016. 10-2019. 07: Associate professor, Division of Materials and Energy, Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China; 2014. 05-2016. 10: Postdoc Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, China; 2013. 05-2014. 04: Postdoc Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Waseda University, Japan; 2009. 03-2013. 07: PhD, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; 2002. 09-2009. 07: M.S. & B.S., Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, China.

1. A global optimization program; The first penta-valent lanthanide. 2. More than 50 peer-reviewed papers, such as J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Sci China Chem. and Chem. Sci. et. al..

one PhD student and two Master students per year

(1) Mingxing Zhang, Chengyu Liang, Guo-Dong Cheng, Junchang Chen, Yumin Wang, Linwei He, Liwei Cheng, Shicheng Gong, Duo Zhang, Jiong Li, S.-X. Hu,* Juan Diwu, Guozhong Wu, Yaxing Wang,* Zhifang Chai, Shuao Wang,* Intrinsic Semiconducting Behavior in a Large Mixed-Valent Uranium(V/VI) Cluster, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 10.1002/anie.202017298. (2) Yaping Fang, Kang Bao,Peng Zhang, Hongting Sheng,* Yapei Yun, S.-X. Hu,* Didier Astruc,* Manzhou Zhu,* Insight into the Mechanism of the CuAAC Reaction by Capturing the Crucial Au4Cu4-pie-Alkyne Intermediate, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 10.1021/jacs.0c12498. (3) K.-Q. Hu+, P.-X. Qiu+, L.-W. Zeng+, S.-X. Hu+, L. Mei, S.-W. An, Z.-W. Huang, X.-H. Kong, J.-H. Lan+, J.-P. Yu, Z.-H. Zhang, J. K. Gibson, Z.-F. Chai, Y.-F. Bu, W.-Q. Shi,* Solar-Driven Nitrogen Fixation Catalyzed by Stable Radical-Containing MOFs: Improved Efficiency Induced by a Structural Transformation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 46: 20666–20671. (4) S.-X. Hu,* Peng Zhang, Wenli Zou, P. Zhang, New theoretical insight into high coordination number complexes in actinides-centered borane, Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 28: 15054–15065. (5) Y. Wang,† S.-X. Hu,† L. Cheng, C. Liang, X. Yin, H. Zhang, A. Li, D. Sheng, J. Diwu; X. Wang, J. Li, Z. Chai, S.-A. Wang,* Stabilization of Plutonium(V) within a Crown Ether Inclusion Complex, CCS Chemistry, 2020, 2, 4: 425−431. (6) S.-X. Hu, W.-L. Li, J.-B. Lu, J. L. Bao, H. Yu, D. G. Truhlar, J. K. Gibson, J. Marçalo, M. Zhou, S. Riedel, W.H.E. Schwarz, J. Li, On Upper Limits of Oxidation-States in Chemistry. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., (2017), 10.1002/anie.201711450. (7) S.-X. Hu, J.-W. Jian, J. Su, X. Wu, J. Li, M.-F. Zhou, The Pentavalent Lanthanide Nitride-Oxides: NPrO and NPrO- Complexes with N≡Pr Triple Bonds. Chem. Sci., (2017) 8(5): 4035-4043. (8) Q. Zhang,† S.-X. Hu,† H. Qu, J. Su, G. Wang, M. Chen, M. F. Zhou, J. Li, Formation and Characterization of Pentavalent Praseodymium Compounds. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2016) 55 (24): 6896–6900.

In-group： Ling-Zhi Cao, Ph.D candidate Ri-Nan Wendu, Ph.D candidate Jin-Hao Xu, Master student Hong-Bing Zhang, Master student Lu Zhang, Master student Sheng Zhang, Master student Graduated: Peng Zhang, Master Degree, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences Wen-Jing Zhang, Master Degree, civil servant