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Career Development
since june 2021 Director of the Stockholm Material Hub, Stockholm Trio, Sweden
since 12.2018 Full professor at Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
2018 Associate professor at Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
2017 Associate professor at Clarkson University, New York State, USA
2015-2016 Senior research group leader and ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant project leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces, Germany
2013-2017 Associate member in International Max Planck Research School "Multiscale Biosystems"
2011-2014 junior research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces, Germany 2009-2010 Post-doc researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces, Germany
Academic Education/Track
2011-2015 Habilitation in "Polymer/Colloid chemistry" at Uni Potsdam, Germany ("Poly(ionic liquid)s: innovative polyelectrolytes for materials application") supervised by Professor Markus Antonietti
2005-2009 PhD in polymer chemistry (summa cum laude) at Uni Bayreuth, Germany ("One-dimensional hybrid nanomaterials based on cylindrical polymer brushes") supervised by Professor Axle H. E. Mueller
2002-2004 M. Sc. in macromolecular chemistry, Uni Siegen, Germany ("Study of Reactions of Melamine Model Compounds with Isocyanates") supervised by Professor Werner Mormann
1998-2002 B. Eng. in applied chemistry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China supervised by Professor Xuefeng Qian
Award and scholarship
2021 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant Award
2017 "Wallenberg Acdemy Fellowship" from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden
2016 "Dozentenpreis des Fonds" (Career Award for Young Chemists, 3 awardees annually) of the Foundation of German Chemical Industry (FCI)
2015 Dr. Hermann-Schnell Award (Career Award for Young Polymer Scientists, 1-2 awardees biannually) of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)
2014 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Award ("nanoporous asymmetric poly(ionic liquid) membranes" NAPOLI-639720)
2013-2015 Best Performance Annual Award ("Gewaehrung einer Leistungspraemie") at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces, Germany
2009-2010 Max Planck Society Postdoc Fellowship
2009 Otto-Warburg Award in Bayreuth, Germany for Best PhD Thesis
Professional Services
Member of Young Academy of Europe (YAE, 2015-2022).
Wallenberg Academy Fellow (WAF, 2017-)
Senior Editor for the journal "Accounts of Materials Research" (Publisher: ACS)since 2022.
International advisory board member of the State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, China (2020-)
Associate Editor (Feb. 2020-) for journal Nano Select (Publisher: Wiley-VCH).
Advisor board member for "Macromolecular Rapid Communications" and "Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics." (Publisher: Wiley-VCH) (2017-).
Editorial board member of the journal "Applied Materials Today" (Publisher: Elsevier) (2015-)
Editorial board member for "Scientific Reports" from Nature Publishing Group (2018-).
Editorial board member of journal "Liquids" (Publisher: MDPI) (2020-)
Associate Editor and acting Editor (2018-2019) for the Journal of Macromolecular Science Part A: Pure and Applied Chemistry (Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group).
Member of the International Polymer Colloids Group (IPCG, 2019-)
Co-organizer of international symposium "Polymer (nano)structure for emerging science and technology" at Clarkson University in USA in Mar. 2018.
Co-organizer of international symposium in ACS Fall meeting in Boston in Aug. 2018. "Ionic Liquids in Polymer Science and Engineering: From Molecular Design to Energy Technologies and Beyond".
Co-organizer of international symposium in MRS Spring meeting in Phoenix, USA in Apr. 2018. "Functional (bio)polymers for energy and environmental applications".
Co-organizer of international symposium in ACS Fall meeting in Boston in Aug. 2015. "Ionic Liquids in Polymer Design: from Energy to Health".
Organizer of workshop for Marie-Curie-ITN RENAISSANCE (Training Network in Innovative Polyelectrolytes for Energy and Environment) in Potsdam Germany (2012).
Guest co-editor of special issue "Poly(ionic liquid)s in Polymer Science and Engineering" in Wiley journal "Polymer International" (2019, Volume 68, Issue 9).
Guest co-editor of special issue "Ionic Liquids in Polymer Design" in Wiley journal "Macromolecular Rapid Communications" (2016, Volume 37, Issue 14).
Guest co-editor of special issue "Polymerized Ionic Liquids for Emerging Technology" in the Elsevier journal "Polymer" (2014, Volume 55, Issue 16).
Referee service for Journals (80+ manuscripts per year): Sci. Adv., Adv. Sci., Matter, Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., ACS Nano, Nano Lett., Nano Ener., Chem. Mater., Macromolecules, J. Mater. Chem. A/B/C, etc.
Referee role for funding institutions / agencies
---Carl-Zeiss-Foundation in Germany (2012)
---Department of Energy in USA (2014)
---ACS PRF in USA (2015), Israel Science Foundation (2015), French National Research Agency (2015), Estonian Science Foundation (2015), Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Fund (2015)
---European Research Council H2020 FET-OPEN external reviewer (2016-2019), National Science Foundation of USA (2016)
---Kentucky Science and Engineering foundation (2017)
---Frontier Research in Chemistry (FRC, 2019)
---the Swedish Research Council panel member (VR,NT18, 2020); European Research council Advanced Grant (ERC-ADG, 2020); the Swedish Research Council Formas (2020); ETH Zurich Research Commission (2020); National Science Foundation (USA, 2020); and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (2020).
Funding and Granted Projects
2019-2023 VR (Swedish Research Council) grant
2019-2021 STINT mobility fund
2018-2020 Stockholm University stratgic Funds
2018-2023 Wallenberg Academy Fellowship
2017 Startup Grant in Clarkson University (terminated from 2018)
2016-2018 Foundation of German Chemical Industry (FCI, suspended from 2017).
2015-2021 ERC Starting Grant 2014 "Nanoporous Asymmetric Poly(Ionic Liquid) Membranes" (1.5 Mio. Euro). (suspension period Feb.-Dec. 2017)
2015-2017 Host for Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc Fellowship, project "Conjugated Porous Ionic Networks and membranes".
2015-2019 EU project "High Energy Lithium Sulphur Cells and Batteries for Automotive Application (HELIS)" within the framework "Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation". (joint project with Prof. Markus Antonietti)
2015-2016 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) project "When pillar[5]arenes meet poly(ionic liquid)s: host-guest interactions for shape-memory gels" (with Zhejiang University, China.)
2014-2016 Biomimetic actuator project within the International Max Planck Research School on "Multiscale Biosystems" in Potsdam/Berlin, Germany (joint project with Dr. John Dunlop)
2014-2015 MAXNET project "new binder for electrochemical devices" (joint project with Prof. Markus Antoniett)
2012-2016 EU project, COST MP1202 "Rational design of hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces", role as Management Committee Supplementary. Granted collaboration project with Stockholm University.
2012-2016 EU Marie-Curie ITN "Training network in innovative polyelectrolytes for energy and environment". Coordinator for the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and co-supervisor of 2 PhD students (joint project with Prof. Markus Antonietti).
2012-2015 Joint International Laboratory between Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany and National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China (joint project together with the other two German PIs)
2014-2015 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) project "Light-Absorption Enhanced PIL Membrane for Conversion of Solar Energy into Chemical Energy" (with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Hobbies
Languages (mandarin and Hefei dialect:native; English: working language; German: life language; Shanghai dialect: understandable; Swedish: in learning) and music, both can "penetrate" and fundamentally reshape a soul...