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Xiao Su – Developing multicomponent electrochemical separations for critical element recovery
Séminaire du département de Chimie
Dates 17/09/2025

Xiao Su is an Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He obtained his Bachelor in Applied Sciences in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2011. He completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 2017, working under the supervision of Professor T. Alan Hatton from Chemical Engineering and Professor Timothy F. Jamison from Chemistry. 

Since joining Illinois in 2019, his research seeks to develop new electrochemically-mediated separations through a combination of molecular design and electrochemical engineering. His team has tackled global challenges such as critical element recovery and materials recycling, sustainable mining, environmental remediation and water treatment, as well as green chemical and biochemical manufacturing. A unique focus has been on understanding and leveraging redox-electron transfer at interfaces to achieve selective ion separations, and electrochemically combining reaction and separations for process intensification.

Xiao has been the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2019), the ACS Victor K. Lamer Award (2020), the ISE-Elsevier Prize for Green Electrochemistry (2021), the ACS Unilever Award (2023), the AIChE FRI/Kunesh Awards in Separations (2023), the ACS Satinder Ahuja Young Investigator Award in Separation Science (2024), and the DOE Early Career Award (2024). Xiao’s teaching has also been recognized by the List of Excellent Teachers (2019, 2022), and the School of Chemical Sciences Teaching Award (SCS) in 2023. 
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