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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Solid State Chemistry and Surface Chemistry, Material Synthesis,Kinetics and Catalysis |
| Keywords | Industrial Chemistry, Catalysis, Material Science, Single Atom Catalysts |
| Honours and awards | 2025: Clarivate Citation Laureates Award 2025: Technical University of Munich Karl Wamsler Innovation Award 2024: Chinese Chemical Society Tang Ao-Chin Award on Chemistry 2024: Future Science Prize on Physical Science 2023: Advance of Catalysis Award of Asian-Pacific Association of Catalysis Societies 2023: Distinguished Award of Chinese Chemical Society-China Petroleum&Chemical Corporation 2020: International Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering 2019: ChinaNano Award 2018: ExxonMobil Chair Professor of NUS, Singapore 2018: Fellow of The Third World Academy of Sciences 2018: Science China Materials Innovation Award |
Current contact address
| Country | People's Republic of China |
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| City | Dalian |
| Institution | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) |
| Institute | Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Roland A. Fischer | Technische Universität München, München |
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| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Roland A. Fischer | Lehrstuhl für Anorganische und Metallorganische Chemie, Technische Universität München, Garching |
Programme(s)
| 2025 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Zhang is an internationally leading chemist and a pioneer of single-atom catalysis. His work has had a lasting impact on sustainable chemistry, energy conversion, and advanced catalytic materials. In Germany, he will further advance collaborative research on single-atom catalysts to deepen mechanistic understanding and enable more efficient and selective catalytic processes. |