{"id":1045,"date":"2026-08-21T13:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:39:13","slug":"hongshan-successfully-defended-his-ph-d-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/2026\/08\/21\/hongshan-successfully-defended-his-ph-d-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Hongshan successfully defended his Ph.D thesis!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our first graduate student, Hongshan Bi, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled \u201c<strong>Atomic-Level Understanding and Design of Catalysts for Surface Redox Reactions<\/strong>\u201d on August 19th, 2026. His innovative and hard work has been greatly appreciated by the committee and the audience. Congratulations Dr. Bi!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"628\" src=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/08\/Image_20260821153108_465_84-1024x628.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050\" style=\"width:458px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/08\/Image_20260821153108_465_84-1024x628.png 1024w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/08\/Image_20260821153108_465_84-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/08\/Image_20260821153108_465_84-768x471.png 768w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/08\/Image_20260821153108_465_84-1536x942.png 1536w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/08\/Image_20260821153108_465_84-100x61.png 100w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/08\/Image_20260821153108_465_84-150x92.png 150w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/08\/Image_20260821153108_465_84-200x123.png 200w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/08\/Image_20260821153108_465_84-450x276.png 450w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/08\/Image_20260821153108_465_84-600x368.png 600w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/08\/Image_20260821153108_465_84-900x552.png 900w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/files\/2026\/08\/Image_20260821153108_465_84.png 1602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first graduate student, Hongshan Bi, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled \u201cAtomic-Level Understanding and Design of Catalysts for Surface Redox Reactions\u201d on August 19th, 2026. His innovative and hard work has been greatly appreciated by the committee and the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/2026\/08\/21\/hongshan-successfully-defended-his-ph-d-thesis\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hongshan successfully defended his Ph.D thesis!<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}