Conference speaker

Dongyuan Zhao was born in north-eastern China. He received his B.S. (1984), M.S. (1987) and PhD (1990) from Jilin University. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science (1993–94), University of Houston (1995–96) and University of California at Santa Barbara (1996–98). Now he is a Professor (Cheung Kong and Hao-Qing Professorship) in the Department of Chemistry at Fudan University.

He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Third World Academy of Science (TWAS), a Council Member of IZA and President of the International Mesostructured Materials Association (IMMA). He has received many awards, including: the TWAS Lenovo Science Prize (2016); CRN Rao Award from the India Chemical Research Society (2013); Muetterties Memory Award (2012); The Ho Leung Ho Lee Award (2009); TWAS Prize (2008); IMMS Award (2008) and DuPond Award (2005). He is currently a Senior Editor of ACS Central Science. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materials Chemistry, and as Co-Editor of the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. He has published more than 600 peer-review papers, 40 patents and is listed as one of the highly cited researchers ISI in both the Chemistry and Materials Science fields (total citations ~ 80,000, h-index 130). His research interests mainly include designed synthesis, assembly, structure and application of ordered mesoporous materials.

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