2022年于上海交通大学化学系取得博士学位，师从陈接胜教授；2018-2020年在波士顿大学交流学习；之后继续在上海交通大学进行博士后研究工作，合作导师李新昊教授；2025年8月入职西南石油大学新能源与材料学院。从事新型清洁能源复合材料的设计合成及光（热）催化性能研究，围绕氧化钛基、碳基材料的设计合成及材料的表面改性与界面电荷传输特性研究开展了一系列工作。参与主研国家自然基金、上海市科技创新项目5项。已累计发表论文20余篇，其中以第一作者及通讯作者身份在CCS Chemistry，ACS Catalysis，Small，Chemical Engineering Journal等期刊发表9篇，国内发明专利1项。

1、新型清洁能源复合材料的设计合成及光/光热催化性能研究。

2、氧化钛基、碳基材料的设计合成及材料的表面改性与界面电荷传输特性研究。

1、代表性论文

1.Xiangcheng Zhang, Xue Wen, Weiyao Hu*, Xiaoning Wang, Zhangxiong Wu*, Uniform mesoporous titania microspheres with engineered oxygen vacancies for enhanced photocatalytic nitrogen fixation to ammonia via optimized orbital interactions, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 525, 169974. (SCI中科院一区, IF:13.3)

2.Wei-Yao Hu, Qi-Yuan Li, Dong Xu, Peng Gao, Pan-Zhe Qiao, Dong Li, Si-Yuan Xia, Xiu Lin, Jie-Sheng Chen, and Xinhao Li*, Integrating Pd(I) atoms in Schottky junctions for solar light-driven urea production from ambient nitrate and CO2 in air, CCS Chemistry, 2024, 6, 3008-3017. (SCI中科院一区TOP, IF:9.4)

3.Wei-Yao Hu, Kelin Li, Andrew Weitz, Aiwen Wen, Hyomin Kim, Jessica C. Murray, Ronghai Cheng, Baixiong Chen, Nathchar Naowarojna, Mark W. Grinstaff, Sean J. Elliott,* Jie-Sheng Chen,* and Pinghua Liu*, Light-driven oxidative demethylation reaction catalyzed by a Rieske-type Non-heme Iron Enzyme Stc2, ACS Catalysis, 2022, 12, 14559-14570. (SCI中科院一区TOP, IF:11.7)

4.Wei-Yao Hu, Qi-Yuan Li, Guang-Yao Zhai, Yun-Xiao Lin, Dong Li, Xiao-Xiao He, Xiu Lin, Dong Xu, Lu-Han Sun, Shi-Nan Zhang, Jie-Sheng Chen, and Xinhao Li*, Facilitating hot electron injection from graphene to semiconductor by rectifying contact for vis-NIR-driven H2O2 production, Small, 2022, 18, 2200885. (SCI中科院一区, IF:13.0)

5.Wei-Yao Hu, Qiyuan Li, Dong Xu, Guangyao Zhai, Shinan Zhang, Dong Li, Xiaoxiao He, Jinping Jia, Jiesheng Chen, Xinhao Li *，Rapidly and mildly transferring anatase phase of graphene-activated TiO2 to rutile with elevated Schottky barrier: Facilitating interfacial hot electron injection for Vis-NIR driven photocatalysis, Nano research, 2022, 15, 14559-14570. (SCI中科院一区TOP, IF:9.5)

6.Nathchar Naowarojna+, Seema Irani+, Wei-Yao Hu+, Ronghai Cheng, Li Zhang, Xinhao Li, Jiesheng Chen,* Yan Jessie Zhang,* and Pinghua Liu*, Crystal structure of the ergothioneine sulfoxide synthase from candidatus chloracidobacterium thermophilum and structure-guided engineering to modulate its substrate selectivity, ACS Catalysis, 2019, 9, 6955-6961. (SCI中科院一区TOP, IF:11.7)

7.Xiangcheng Zhang+, Wei-Yao Hu +, Kaifu Zhang, Jianan Wang, Bojing Sun, Haoze Li, Panzhe Qiao, Lei Wang, Wei Zhou*, Ti3+ self-doped black TiO2 nanotubes with mesoporous nanosheet architecture as efficient solar-driven hydrogen evolution photocatalysts, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2017, 5, 6894-6901. (SCI中科院一区TOP, IF:9.2)

8.Wei-Yao Hu, Wei Zhou,* Kaifu Zhang, Xiangcheng Zhang, Lei Wang, Baojiang Jiang, Guohui Tian, Dongyuan Zhao and Honggang Fu*, Facile strategy for controllable synthesis of stable mesoporous black TiO2 hollow spheres with efficient solar-driven photocatalytic hydrogen evolution, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016, 4, 7495-7502 (SCI中科院二区TOP, IF:10.7)