温晓东研究员于2007年在中科院山西煤化所取得理学博士学位。同年赴美国康奈尔（Cornell University）大学，师从Roald Hoffmann教授（1981诺贝尔化学奖得主）和著名物理学家Neil Ashcroft教授进行博士后研究。2010年-2014年作为西博格(Seaborg)学者, 在美国洛斯阿拉莫斯（Los Alamos National Lab）国家实验室开展科学研究。现为中国科学院山西煤炭化学研究所研究员/博士生导师，煤转化国家重点实验室副主任，中科合成油技术有限公司基础研究部部长/国际表面研究中心副主任。现主持国家基金委重大研究计划、面上及创新团队等项目。
温晓东研究员长期从事能源体系，其中包括当前碳基能源体系、清洁能源转化材料体系及替代能源体系的基础及开发工作，通过开发针对能源催化及能源材料的计算机智能预测平台，建立相关体系的大数据“专家系统”，走向理性设计的能源催化过程及能源转化材料的前沿研究。相关研究成果发表在Nature, Science, Chem. Rev., PNAS, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,等国际刊物上。至今共发表150多篇科研论文及专著

（1）含碳资源高效转化过程：通过理论预测并结合实验验证探索C-H-O反应网络体系，设计高效的催化转化过程。
（2）清洁能源转化材料的预测和开发：开发针对能源催化及能源材料的计算机智能预测平台，建立相关体系的大数据“专家系统”，走向理性设计的能源催化过程及能源转化材料。

(1) Lili Lin, Wu Zhou, Rui Gao, Siyu Yao, Xiao Zhang, Wenqian Xu, Shijian Zheng, Zheng Jiang, Yong Wang Li, Chuan Shi*, Xiao-Dong Wen*, Ding Ma*, Low temperature H2 production from methanol/H2O over atomically dispersed Pt/α-MoC catalysts. Nature, 2017, 544, 80-83.
(2) Siyu Yao, Xiao Zhang, Wu Zhou, Rui Gao, Wenqian Xu, Yifan Ye, Lili Lin, Xiaodong Wen, Ping Liu, Bingbing Chen, Ethan Crumlin, Jinghua Guo, Zhijun Zuo, Weizhen Li, Jinglin Xie, Li Lu, Christopher J. Kiely, Lin Gu, Chuan Shi, José A. Rodriguez, Ding Ma, Atomic-layered Au clusters on a-MoC as catalysts for the low-temperature water-gas shift reaction, Science, 2017, 357, 389–393.
(3) Peng Zhai, Cong Xu, Rui Gao, Xi Liu, Mengzhu Li, Weizhen Li, Xinpu Fu, Chunjiang Jia, Jinglin Xie, Ming Zhao, Xiaoping Wang, Yong-Wang Li, Qianwen Zhang*, Xiao-Dong Wen*, Ding Ma*, Highly Tunable Selectivity for Syngas-Derived Alkenes over Zinc and Sodium-Modulated Fe5C2 Catalyst, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 9902–9907.
(4) When Density Functional Approximations Meet Iron Oxides.Yu Meng, Xing-Wu Liu, Chun-Fang Huo, Wen-Ping Guo, Dong-Bo Cao, Qing Peng, Albert Dearden, Xavier Gonze, Yong Yang, Jianguo Wang, Haijun Jiao, Yongwang Li*, and Xiao-Dong Wen*, J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2016, 12, 5132–5144.
(5) Oxide-Modified Nickel Photocatalyst for the Production of Hydrocarbons in Visible Light. Yufei Zhao, Bo Zhao, Jinjia Liu, Guangbo Chen, Rui Gao, Siyu Yao, Mengzhu Li, Qinghua Zhang, Lin Gu, Jinglin Xie, Xiaodong Wen*, Li-Zhu Wu, Chen-Ho Tung, Ding Ma*, Tierui Zhang*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 4215
(6) Wen, X.-D.; Martin, R. L.; Henderson, T. M.; Scuseria, G. E. Density Functional Theory Studies of the Electronic Structure of Solid State Actinide Oxides. Chemical Reviews, 2013, 2012, 113, 1063-1096.
(7) Wen, X.-D.; Yang, T.; Hoffmann, R.; Ashcroft, N. W.; Martin, R. L.; Rudin, S. P.; Zhu, J.-X. Graphane Nanotubes. ACS nano, 2012, 6(8), 7142-7150.
(8) Wen, X.-D.; Hoffmann, R.; Ashcroft, N. W. Two-Dimensional CdSe nanosheets and their interaction with stabilizing ligands. Advanced Materials, 2013, 25, 261-266.
(9) Wen, X.-D.; Rudin, S. P.; Batista, E. R.; Scuseria, G. E.; Martin, R. L. Rotational Rehybridization and the High Temperature Phase of UC2. Inorganic Chemistry, 2012, 51, 12650-12659.
(10) Wen, X.-D.; Rudin, S. P.; Batista, E. R.; Scuseria, G. E.; Martin, R. L. Effect of SOC on actinide dioxides series, AnO2 (An=Th, Pa, U, Np, Pu and Am): A hybrid functional study. J. Chemical Physics, 2012, 137, 154707.
(11) Wen, X.-D.; Hand, L.; Labet, V.; Yang, T.; Hoffmann, R.; Ashcroft, N. W.; Oganov, A. R.; Lyakhov, A. O. Graphane sheets and crystals under high pressure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011, 108, 6833-6837.
(12) Wen, X.-D.; Ashcroft, N. W.; Hoffmann, R. Benzene under high pressure: a story of molecular crystals transforming to saturated networks, with a possible intermediate metallic phase. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 9023-9025.
(13) Wen, X.-D.; Cahill, T. J.; Hoffmann, R. Exploring Group 14 Structures: 1D to 2D to 3D. Chemistry: A European Journal. 2010, 16, 6555-6566.
(14) Wen, X.-D.; Cahill, T. J.; Hoffmann, R. Element Lines: Bonding in the Ternary Gold Polyphosphides: Au2MP2 with M=Pb, Tl or Hg, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 2199–2207.
(15) Wen, X.-D.; Cahill, T. J.; Hoffmann, R.; Miura, A. Tuning of Metal-Metal Bonding by Counterion Size in Hypothetical AETiO2 Compounds, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 14632-14633.
(16) Wen, X.-D.; Cao, Z.; Li, Y.-W.; Wang, J.-G.; Jiao, H. Structure and Energy of Mo27SxCy Cluster: A density functional theory study. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2006, 110, 23860-23869.
(17) Wen, X.-D.; Zeng, T.; Li, Y.-W.; Wang, J. -G.; Jiao, H. Surface Structure and Stability of MoSx Model Clusters. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2005, 109, 18491-18499.
(18) Rogachev, A. Y.; Wen, X.-D.; Hoffmann, R. Jaibreaking Benzene Dimers. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 8062-8067.
(19) Zurek, E.; Wen, X.-D.; Edwards, P. P.; Ashcroft, N. W.; Hoffmann, R. (Barely) Solid Li(NH3)4: The electronics of an expanded metal. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 3535-3547.
(20) Wang, Z.; Wen, X.-D.; Hoffmann, R.; Son, J. S.; Li, R.; Fang, C.C.; Smilgies, D. M.; Hyeon, T. Reconstructing a solid-solid phase transformation pathway in CdSe nanosheets with associated soft ligands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010, 107, 17119-17124.

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