Presentation Title: Fundamental science for hydrogen ironmaking: understanding hydrogen reduction at atomistic scale

Kejiang Li is a full professor at the School of Metallurgy and Ecological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB). He is also the deputy secretary-general of the Metallurgical Reaction Engineering Branch of the Chinese Society of Metals (CSM), a young editorial board member of IJMMM and China Metallurgy journals. He has been awarded the China Association of Science and Technology (CAST) Young Talent Support Project. Kejiang Li got his PhD from the USTB and the University of Toronto (for joint study) in 2017, then joined USTB as a specially-appointed associate professor in the same year, and was promoted to professor in 2021. Kejiang Li is dedicated to studying metallurgical reaction processes and improving metallurgical technology from the microscopic atomic scale to the macroscopic process scale. He has published more than 70 SCI papers as the first/corresponding author in recent years, with a citation rate of more than 1500 times and an H factor of 21. He has authorized more than 10 patents, published one Chinese monograph, and co-edited one English monograph. His research results promote the interdisciplinarity of metallurgical engineering, computational chemistry, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence, and at the same time provide the theoretical and technological basis for the realization of carbon neutrality in the iron and steel industry.  Kejiang Li has presided 2 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and participated in more than 10 low-carbon metallurgy projects of Baowu Group and other enterprises, 2 of which were recognized as international leading by the China Society for Metals' technical appraisal. He has won 3 provincial and ministerial awards, including the Metallurgical Science and Technology Award of China Society for Metals and the China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation and Promotion Award, and has served as a reviewer for more than 10 international journals.