Personal profile：

Yunji Ding, Ph.D., born in 1990, is an assistant research fellow. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Institute for Advanced Materials and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) in June 2019. He worked there as a postdoctoral researcher after graduated. Now he is a member of youth expert committee of China Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance for Secondary Resources, and devoted to the study of materials recycling technology and theory. He has participated National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Made in China 2025” Integration of Green Key Process Systems MIIT, and National Science and Technology Support Project. He has been honored as excellent doctoral dissertation of USTB, excellent postgraduate student in Beijing and etc.

Research direction：

1. Materials recycling technologies and theories

2. Green and efficient recovery of precious metals

3. Recycling of electronic waste

Scientific research achievement:

He has published over 20 SCI articles on journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Waste Management, Resources Conservation & Recycling, one of which has been awarded first prize of “Scientific Paper of The Nonferrous Metals Society of China”. He has also applied more than 20 Chinese invention patents and 14 of them has been authorized. Some publications are listed below.

[1] 1. Yunji Ding, Xiaoyan Zhang*, Boyu Wu, Bo Liu, Shengen Zhang*. Highly porous ceramics production using slags from smelting of spent automotive catalysts. Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2021, 166: 105373.

[2] Yunji Ding, Huandong Zheng, Shengen Zhang*, Bo Liu, Boyu Wu, Zhuming Jian. Highly efficient recovery of platinum, palladium, and rhodium from spent automotive catalysts via iron melting collection. Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2020, 155: 104644.

[3] Yunji Ding, Shengen Zhang, Bo Liu, Huandong Zheng, Chein-chi Chang, Christian Ekberg. Recovery of precious metals from electronic waste and spent catalysts: A review. Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2019, 141: 284-298.

[4] Yunji Ding, Huandong Zheng, Jiayi Li, Shengen Zhang, Bo Liu, Christian Ekberg, Zhuming Jian. Recovery of platinum from spent petroleum catalysts: Optimization using response surface methodology. Metals, 2019, 9(3): 354.

[5] Yunji Ding, Shengen Zhang, Bo Liu, Bin Li. Integrated process for recycling copper anode slime from electronic waste smelting[J]. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017, 165: 48-56.

[6] Shengen Zhang, Yunji Ding, Bo Liu, Chein-chi Chang. Supply and demand of some critical metals and present status of their recycling in WEEE[J]. Waste Management, 2017, 65: 113-127.