Dr Maochun WU is currrently an Assistant Professor under Strategic Hiring Scheme at the Department of Mecanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He received his BEng degree in Chemical Engineering and Technique from South China University of Technology in 2014 and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2018. After graduation, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Assistant Professor at the same university before he joined PolyU in December 2021 under the stategic hiring scheme.

Dr Wu's research interests are in the broad area of electrochemical energy storage and conversion technologies, especially flow batteries, metal-air batteries, aqueous zinc batteries, and solid-state lithium batteries. Major efforts are made to gain an in-depth understanding of the coupled heat/mass/ion transfer and electrochemical reactions phenomena in these advanced energy systems and thus create innovative solutions to develop safer, more efficient, more powerful and durable batteries for a sustainable future.