Chi Zhang#
| Membership Number: | 5398 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://chemweb.tongji.edu.cn/info/1380/6194.htm |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - Now National Distinguished Professor, Dean & Academic Committee Chair of School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University, China
- 2013 - Now Founder & Director, International Joint Research Centre for Photo-Response Functional Materials, MOST, China
- 2009 - Now Founder & Director, China-Australia Joint Research Centre for Functional Molecular Materials, MOST China & DIISR Australia
- 2016 - 2018 Distinguished Professor, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- 2009 - 2018 Senior Fellow (Level D), Research Professor (Level E), Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Australia
- 2012 - 2016 Summum Bonum Distinguished Professor, Deputy Chairman of University Academic Committee, Jiangnan University, China
- 2007 - 2012 Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science, Dean of Scientific Research Academy, Jiangsu University, China
- 2003 - 2007 Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, China
- 2004 - 2006 Research Fellow of Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Nagoya University, Japan
- 2002 - 2003 Research Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- 2000 - 2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kansas, United States
Fields of Scholarship
- Metal Sulfide/Iodate/Borate crystalline materials
- Second-/third-order nonlinear optical materials
- Heterothiometallic cluster compounds
- Chromophoric and luminescent clusters, aggregates and nano-assemblies
- Photochemistry and photophysics
- Nano Heterojunctions in highly efficient hydrogen generation by photoelectrolysis
- Covalently functionalized porphyrin-carbon nanotube/graphene nanohybrids
- Transition-metal chalcogenide supermolecules and assemblies
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Member of German National Academy of Science and Engineering
- 2022 First Prize of Technical Invention Award, CSOE, China
- 2020 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2020 Fellow of Institute of Physics, IOP, UK
- 2019 Member of European Academy of Sciences
- 2019 Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2019 Second Prize of Natural Science Research Award, MOE, China
- 2018 Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, IOM-3, UK
- 2018 Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology, IET, UK
- 2016 Innovation Research Achievement Contribution Award, AFROC, China
- 2015 Awardee for The Hundred Talent Program, CAS, China
- 2014 Fellow of Royal Australian Chemical Institute, RACI, Australia
- 2014 Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC, UK
- 2014 Chief Professor of Key-Field Innovative Research Team, MOST, China
- 2012 Chief Scientist of Research Base for The Cooperative Research with Foreign Experts, MOE & SAFEA, China
- 2012 Innovation Research Team Contribution Award, AFROC, China
- 2011 Awardee for The Recruitment Program of Global Experts, China
- 2010 Chief Professor of Changjiang Innovative Research Team, MOE, China
- 2010 Innovation Research Talent Contribution Award, AFROC, China
- 2010 National Expert for Receiving the Government Special Allowance, China
- 2009 Awardee of the New Century "Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project", China
- 2009 Distinguished Young Scientist Award, NSFC, China
- 2003 JSPS Research Fellow, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan
- 2001 Humboldt Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
