Academic Degree Held:
PhD degree (Inorganic Chemistry), 1993, Nanjing University
Experience, Positions and Titles:
Past:
JSPS postdoctoral research fellow in Prof. Kazuyuki Tatsumi¡¯group and the Center of Excellence at Nagoya University, Japan (1995/1998)
Postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Richard H. Holm¡¯group at Harvard University, US (1998-1999)
Postdoctoral research fellow with Prof. Kazuyuki Tatsumi¡¯group International Materials Science Centre (IMSC) of Nagoya University, Japan (1999/2001)
Vice-Dean (2003-2007), executive Dean (2008-present) of the College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (2008-to date).
Present Positions:
Executive Dean of the College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Director of Key Laboratory of Molecular Device and Design (MDD) of Soochow University
Member of the Board of Directors of Chinese Crystallographic Society
Invited Referee of J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angwe. Chem. Int. Ed., Coord. Chem. Rev., Chem. Eur. J., Inorg. Chem., Cryst. Growth & Des., CrystEngComm., Organometallics, Dalton Trans., Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., J. Organomet. Chem., Polyhedron, Inorg. Chim. Acta, Inorg. Chem. Commun., J. Mol. Struct, Science in China Series B: Chemistry, Chinese Science Bulletin, Chinese Chemical Society etc.
Fields of Special Achievement
Metal sulfide cluster chemistry, cluster-based supramolecular chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry related to mimicking metal sites of enzymes and proteins (with 3 patents authorized and 13 patent registered)
Projects Undertaken
Honors and Awards
Winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2005)
Member of the Bai-Qian-Wan Talents National Program of the New Century (2007)
Winner of 3 project funds of National Natural Science Foundation of China and 20 project funds from concerned provincial and ministerial departments (since 2001)
First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education(1995)
Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association (CPCIA) (2009)
Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of Suzhou City (2009)
Member of ¡°333 High-Level Talents Cultivation Project¡± of Jiangsu Province (2001)
Member of Top-Ten Outstanding Young Talents and Avant-Guard Models of the New Long March of Suzhou (2003)
National Outstanding Teacher of the Ministry of Education (2004)
Recipient of Special Government Allowance Award of the State Council (2005)
Nomination Award of Young Scientist of Jiangsu Provincie (2004)
Candidate of the Qing-Lan Talents Project (Indigo-from-Blue Project) of the Higher Institutions of Education in Jiangsu Province (2006)
Member of the Middle-Aged and Young Specialists with Outstanding Contributions of Jiangsu Province (2006)
Member of the First Group of Middle-Aged and Young Leading Figures of Science and Technology, and Member of the Second Group of Middle-Aged and Young Leading Science and Technology Talents of ¡°333 High-Level Talents Cultivation Project¡± of Jiangsu Province (2006)
Publications:
200 articles published (since 1992) in academic journals including J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Coord. Chem. Rev., Chem. Commun., Inorg. Chem., Cryst. Growth. Des., Dalton Trans., Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., J. Organomet. Chem., Polyhedron, Inorg. Chim. Acta, Inorg. Chem. Commun., J. Mol. Struct.etc.
