Chi Zhang - Curriculum Vitae#
Current Professional Appointments:
- Founding Dean and Academic Committee Chair, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University, China
- Founder & Director, International Joint Research Centre for Photo-Response Functional Materials, Ministry of Science and Technology, China (This joint center is collaboratively built by Tongji Univ, Australian National Univ, Technical Univ Munich, Washington Univ, Nagoya Univ, Univ Rennes 1, Catholic Univ Leuven, Harbin Institute Tech, Wrocław Univ Sci & Tech)
- Founder & Director, China-Australia Joint Research Center for Functional Molecular Materials, Approved and Financially Supported by Ministry of Science and Technology China and Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Australian Government (This joint center is collaboratively built by Tongji Univ, Australian National Univ, Nanjing Univ, Harbin Institute Tech, Monash Univ, Zhengzhou Univ)
Adjunct Academic Appointments:
- Committee Senator, Academic Board of Material Division of Science and Technology Committee, Ministry of Education, China (Since 2015)
- Council Member, Chinese Chemical Society (Since 2017)
- Council Member, Chinese Society for Optical Engineering (Since 2014)
- Committee Member, Academic Board of Material Science Professional Committee of Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Since 2010)
- Committee Member, Academic Board of Key Laboratory for Fiber Laser Materials and Application Technology of Guangdong Province (Since 2015)
- Chair Professor of Optical Materials, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Since 2015)
- Adjunct Professor of Optical Materials, National Laboratory of Nonlinear Optics and Information Processing, Harbin Institute of Technology (Since 2006)
- Visiting Professor of Materials Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Catholic University of Leuven Belgium (Since 2019)
Professional Experiences:
- 2016 - present National Distinguished Professor, Founding Dean & Academic Committee Chair of School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University, China
- 2013 - present Founder & Director, International Joint Research Centre for Photo-Response Functional Materials, MOST, China
- 2009 - present Founder & Director, China-Australia Joint Research Centre for Functional Molecular Materials, MOST China & DIISR Australia
- 2009 - 2018 Senior Fellow (Level D), Research Professor (Level E), Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Australia
- 2012 - 2016 Summum Bonum Distinguished Professor, Assistant to the President & Deputy Chirman 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
- 2000 Ph.D in Inorganic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University
Research Interests:
Transition-Metal Clusters, Supermolecules, Organic-Inorganic Conjugated Nanohybrids, Nano Heterojunctions and their Nonlinear Optical and Optoelectronic Properties.
Major Research Grants Received (as Principal Investigator): Internal & External 30 Research Grants.
Research Outcome Summary: ca. 450 peer-reviewed international academic journal articles & 60 Chinese invention patents
Professional Services:
Served in over 50 National/Province Advisory Committees, Academic Boards, Selection Committees, and Evaluation Committees, for various kinds of National/Province Science and Technology Policy, National Natural Science Awards, Scientific Research Projects, Research Talent Plans, etc.
