He is one of the 70 recipients of the Presidential Hydrogen Fuel Initiative awardsnationwide in 2005. A main thrust of his research is using modeling/simulation to address materials issues relatedto energy and environment. Dr. Ge holds M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in Chemical Engineering from Tianjin University,China. He worked as a Postdoctoral scholar in Copenhagen University, Denmark, Cambridge University, U.K. andUniversity of Virginia before joining SIUC. His experiences ranged from experimental characterization and kineticsmodeling of catalysts to first principles based simulations of various materials. He authored/coauthored more than70 journal papers, including those in Science, the Journal of American Chemical Society, and Physical ReviewLetters.