2020年9月16日，受天津市分子光电科学重点实验室邀请，韩国科学技术高等研究院Cafer T. Yavuz教授通过Zoom平台向广大师生做了题为“Circular Carbon Economy for a Rapid Climate Recovery”的线上讲座。Yavuz教授就碳循环经济背景下的高效碳捕捉技术进行了详细的介绍。Yavuz教授课题组关于碳捕捉技术的研究对改善全球温室效应具有重要意义。本次讲座受到海内外学术界的广泛关注，讲座后，Yavuz教授与师生进行了在线交流与探讨。
Yavuz教授在线报告
报告人简介：
Dr. Cafer T. Yavuz received his B.S. degree from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He was admitted to Rice University in 2001 with Welch scholarship and received his Master's and Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Vicki L. Colvin. His research focused on production of magnetic nanocrystals and their use in arsenic removal. He worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara with Dr. Galen Stucky on CO2 sequestration, conversion and co-activation with methane (CH4) until his appointment as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water and Sustainability (EEWS), KAIST, South Korea on June 1st of 2010. He is the first Turkish faculty (tenure track) appointed in a Korean university. He was promoted to Associate Professor on September 2013 and jointly appointed at the Department of Chemistry. He is an Editorial Board Member at Chem, a new chemistry journal by Cell Press and International Advisory Board Member at Advanced Sustainable Systems, a new journal by Wiley. He also served for RSC Advances of the Royal Society of Chemistry as an Associate Editor. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology.
