Dr. Yun Hau Ng joined KAUST in 2024 as a professor of chemical engineering, where he leads the Catalysis for Alternative & Renewable Energy (CARE) research group. CARE group adopts a multidisciplinary approach to study nanostructured catalytic materials as active components in energy conversion and storage processes. Ng earned his Ph.D. from Osaka University in 2009. Prior to his KAUST position, he was a faculty member at University of New South Wales, Australia and at City University of Hong Kong. His research primarily focuses on developing semiconductor-based photocatalysts and photoelectrochemical systems for sunlight energy conversion, which includes hydrogen generation from water, conversion of carbon dioxide into solar fuels, and ammonia synthesis. Beyond his responsibilities at KAUST, Professor Ng serves as an editor for Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics; and associate editor for Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry and Sustainable Materials and Technologies. He is recognized by Clarivate as being among the top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers worldwide since 2021.​

Dr. Ng’s research interests include the development of photocatalytic andphotoelectrochemical systems aimed at harvesting solar light as an energy source forchemical energy conversion. His team is committed to gaining a fundamentalunderstanding of reactions induced by excited charges. The Research projects primarilyconcentrate on innovative photoactive semiconductors, delicate nanostructured catalysts,photochemistry of carbon-based nanomaterials, photoelectrochemistry (charge interactionand charge transfer). Additionally, they explore photoelectrochemical water splitting, andlight-induced charge storage (solar battery), with potential in real-world energy andenvironmental solutions.​