Professor Dongyuan Zhao

Professor Zhao Dongyuan is currently a professor of Chemistry at Fudan University, a doctoral supervisor, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Zhao has been active in academia, serving as pluralistic professors of East China Normal University, Xiamen University and so on. He was the member of academic committees in Nano Sci&Tech Research Center at Xiamen University, Nano Sci&Tech Research Center at Nanjing University and the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Ceramic Materials at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics. He was the Vice-Editor-of-Chief of the Chinese Science Bulletin, and also joined the editorial board of some professional journals, such as Acta Petrolei Sinica and the Journal of Fuel Chemistry And Technology. He has been in charge of 18 key and major programs of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Ministry of Science and Technology.

In addition, he was also the technology consultant of SBA Inc. (USA). Dr. Zhao was elected the 4-year member and secretary of the International Mesostructured Material Association (IMMA) council in 2002. Recent honors include President, the 5th International Mesostructured Materials Symposium in Shanghai (2006), Feinberg Fellowship at Weizmann Institute of Science, Distinguished Post-doctoral Award (American Chemical Society, 1998), New Century Distinguished Young Professor Award (Ministry of Education, 1999), Outstanding Young Scientist Award (National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1999), Shanghai Scientific Talent (2002), Mudan Research Prize (2002), First Prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Promotion Prize (2002), and he was recognized as one of 48 top authors in the past fifteen years by Adv. Mater. He has published more than 700 papers, reviews, and communications, including 2 in Science, 2 in Nature, 1 in Nature Materials, 1 in Nature Chem., 28 in J. Am. Chem. Soc., 13 in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 13 in Adv. Mater., and have 6 US Patents, 22 China Patents. He has been invited to write review papers for Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials . He has been a keynote, or named lecturer at more than 10 international symposia and invited to give more than 30 lectures at some renowned universities and institutes, for example, University of California at Berkeley. To date, he has educated 71 Ph.D. students, 21 M.S. students and 29 postdoctoral associates.