2013年6月本科毕业于河南工程学院资源与环境学院，2016年6月硕士毕业于kaiyun欧洲杯app环境学院，2020年8月获南开大学环境科学专业理学博士，并进入kaiyun欧洲杯app环境学院工作。近年来，主持有河南省自然基金青年项目一项，发表SCI论文15篇，其中一作11篇。
1、无机纳米材料的设计制备及其在电催化领域中的应用研究：包括染料敏化太阳能电池对电极材料、水电解析氧反应催化剂等；
2、环境介质中重金属分布特征及其对人体的暴露途径和健康效应研究。
中国化学会会员
主持的科研项目：
1、河南省自然科学基金青年项目（222300420212）：非晶/晶体Co3O4结晶度调控及海水电解析氧作用机制。
2、博士人才科研启动课题（校20210257）：新乡市电池污染场地土壤重金属的迁移规律、暴露途径及阻控措施研究。
代表性论文：
1. Pengkun Wei, Zewei Hao, Yang Yang, Lu Liu.Hollow NiSe2 nanospheres grown on graphene with unconventional dual-vacancies in dye-sensitized solar cells, Applied Surface Science, 2021, 553, 149567.
2. Pengkun Wei, Zewei Hao, Yang Yang, Lu Liu. Hollow nickel selenide nanospheres coated in carbon as water oxygen electrocatalysts. Materials Letters, 2021, 305, 130748
3. Pengkun Wei, Zewei Hao, Yang Yang, Lu Liu. Facile and functional synthesis of Ni0.85Se/Carbon nanospheres with hollow structure as counter electrodes of DSSCs. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2021, 903, 115830.
4. Pengkun Wei, Zewei Hao, Yang Yang, Mingyang Liu, Haijun Zhang, Min-Rui Gao, Shu-Hong Yu. Unconventional dual-vacancies in nickel diselenide-graphene nanocomposite for high-efficiency oxygen evolution catalysis, Nano Research, 2020, 13(12), 3292-3298.
5. Pengkun Wei, Yang Yang, Hongzhi Kang, Zewei Hao, Donggang Guo, Lu Liu. Controllable Synthesis of Fe-doped NiCo2O4 Nanobelts as Superior Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Chemistry-A European Journal, 2020, 26, 13725-13729.
6. Pengkun Wei, Zewei Hao, Hongzhi Kang, Yang Yang, Donggang Guo, Lu Liu. Cost-effective and efficient catalyst of bimetallic nickel iron selenide toward oxygen evolution reaction, ChemCatChem, 2020, 12, 4416-4421.
7. Pengkun Wei, Jing Li, Hongzhi Kang, Yang Yang, Zewei Hao, Xue Chen, Donggang Guo, Lu Liu. Facile synthesis and promising application of iron‐doped nickel selenide nanoparticles as high‐efficiency counter electrodes of dye‐sensitized solar cells, International Journal of Energy Research, 2020, 44, 845-854.
8. Pengkun Wei, Xue Chen, Guizhu Wu, Jing Li, Yang Yang, Zeiwei Hao, Xiao Zhang, Jing Li, Lu Liu.Recent advances in cobalt‐, nickel‐, and iron‐based chalcogen compounds as counter electrodes in dye‐sensitized solar cells, Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2019, 40, 1282-1297.
9. Pengkun Wei, Jing Li, Zewei Hao, Yang Yang, Xuemin Li, Chuanjia Jiang, Lu Liu. In situ synthesis of ternary nickel iron selenides with high performance applied in dye-sensitized solar cells, Applied Surface Science, 2019, 492, 520-526.
10.Pengkun Wei, Jing Li, Hongzhi Kang, Zewei Hao, Yang Yang, Donggang Guo, Lu Liu.Cost-effective and efficient dye-sensitized solar cells with nickel cobalt sulfide counter electrodes, Solar Energy, 2019, 188, 603-608.
11.Pengkun Wei, Xuemin Li, Jing Li, Jinwu Bai, Chuanjia Jiang, Lu Liu.A Facile Synthesis of Ternary Nickel Iron Sulfide Nanospheres as Counter Electrode in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Chemistry-A European Journal, 2018, 24, 19032-19037.
12.Yang Yang, Pengkun Wei, Zewei Hao, Qilin Yu, Huajie Liu, Lu Liu. Adjustable Ternary FeCoNi Nanohybrids for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Chemistry-A European Journal, 2019, 25, 1536-15366.
13.Zewei Hao, Pengkun Wei, Yang Yang, Jingyu Sun, Yunhua Song, Donggang Guo, Lu Liu.Self-assembled CuCo2S4 nanosheets with rich surface Co3+ as efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction, Applied Surface Science, 2021, 536, 147826.
14.Zewei Hao, Pengkun Wei, Hongzhi Kang, Yang Yang, Jing Li, Xue Chen, Donggang Guo, Lu Liu. Three-dimensional Fe3S4@NiS hollow nanospheres as efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2019, 850, 113436.
15. Jinwu Bai, Yun Li, Pengkun Wei, Jiandang Liu, Wei Chen, Lu Liu. Enhancement of Photocatalytic Activity of Bi2O3–BiOI Composite Nanosheets through Vacancy Engineering, Small, 2019, 15, 1900020.