About
A researcher who likes both the lab bench and the command line
Ding Jiang is a lecturer at the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Jiangsu University. His research asks a simple question: how do we turn biomass — an abundant, messy, low-value resource — into fuels, chemicals and functional materials that are actually worth something?
His approach pairs experiments with theory. Catalytic conversion and carbon materials on one side; density functional theory (DFT) and data analysis on the other. The computation explains what the experiment sees, and the experiment keeps the computation honest.
Outside the lab, he writes a blog on this site about research craft and about working with AI assistants — what they are genuinely good at, and where they quietly go wrong.
