Yangtse Scholars

Jintang Dong ,male, got doctor degree of science in 1989.Professor of college of life Science, Nankai University. Has published over 60 papers on influential journals both home and abroad. He won the Outstanding Young Scientist abroad Award by China Science Foundation.In 2006, he was chosen as a Specially-invited Professor of the "Yangtse River Scholar Award Program" by the Ministry of Education. And he won the Outstanding Young Scientist Award by China Science Foundation.

Chen Jun, male, born in Sep.1967, is engaged in researching on the basis and applied basis of inorganic synthesis and preparation chemistry, inorganic nanometre energy storing material, and high-energy chemical power supply. He has published over eighty SCI-included papers in such periodicals as JACS, Angew Chem Int Ed, Adv Mater, etc., and has been cited for over six hundred times. He has been granted 17 patents for inventions by China, USA and Europe, and compiled such books as Energy Chemistry and Chemical Power Supply: Theory, Technique and Application. In 2002, he was selected as a member of the Cross-century Talents Program by the Ministry of Education; in 2003, he won the support of the National Outstanding Youth Foundation; in 2005, he was chosen as a Specially-invited Professor of the "Yangtse River Scholar Award Program" by the Ministry of Education, and won the Wicke International Academic Prize (MH2002, France) as well as the first Prize for Natural Science of Tianjin City (year 2006, the first accomplisher).

Bu Xianhe, male, born in 1964, is a professor and doctoral program advisor. He undertakes the research in such interdisciplinary fields as function coordinated chemistry, ultra molecule chemistry and crystal engineering, and has published over two hundred SCI-included papers. In 1997, he was chosen as a member of the Cross- century Talents Program by the Ministry of Education; in 1999, he was granted a special allowance by the government; in 2002, he won support of the National Outstanding Youth Foundation; in 2004, he was selected as one of the first Millions of Talents in the new century and as specially-invited professor of the "Yangtse River Scholar Award Program" by the Ministry of Education. Besides, he was awarded an expert title by Tianjin municipality. He now works as head of the Department of Chemistry of Nankai University, dean of the Key Laboratory of Metal and Molecular Group Material Chemistry of Tianjin, as well as member of the editorial board of College Journal of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry Journal, and Structural Chemistry.

Dr. Peng George Wang received his B.S. degree in 1984 from Nankai University, Tianjin, China. In 1985 he came to USA for his graduate study under the Chemistry Graduate Program (CGP) organized by Chinese government. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Organic/Bioorganic Chemistry in 1990 from University of California, Berkeley. After one year stay at Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow, he then moved to Scripps Research Institute and continued his postdoctoral training from 1992 to 1994 in Professor Chi-Huey Wong's laboratory. He started his independent academic career at the University of Miami in 1994 and then move to Wayne State University in 1997, where he was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 1999 and Professor in 2001. In 2003, Dr. Wang took an endowed Professor position at the Ohio State University as Ohio Eminent Scholar in the Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry. In 2007, Dr. Wang became the Dean of College of Pharmacy in Nankai University. Professor Wang has received several awards, including National Institutes of Health First Independent Research Support and Transition (FIRST) Award (1996 ¨C 2001), Career Development Chair Award, Wayne State University (2000), and 2002 Horace S. Isbell Award from American Chemical Society, Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry. He has trained 13 Ph.D. students and worked with more than 20 postdoctoral fellows. He has published more than 212 research papers, reviews and book chapters.

Prof. Dr. Chen, Zhigang is currently a professor in the Applied Physics School at Nankai University. After he earned his M.S. in 1998 from University of Science & Technology of China, and his Ph.D. in physics in 1995 from Bryn Mawr College in U.S., he worked at Princeton University as a Research Associate and then a Senior Research Staff Member. He has been a full professor at San Francisco State University, and has been a Visiting Professor at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, and INFM Universite di Aquila, Italy.

Dr. Chen has worked on a variety of aspects in nonlinear optics and photonics, and has recently pioneered the research on optical spatial solitons and light induced photonic bandgap structures. His ongoing collaborations with scientists at Stanford University, Princeton University, Australian National University, and CREOL/University of Central Florida as well as with students and coworkers at Nankai University and San Francisco State University have merited more than 100 publications in top-rated journals including Science, Physical Review Letters, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His scientific papers have received more than 1000 citations. He has given numerous invited talks at professional meetings and workshops. He has served as a referee for a number of scholarly journals and as a conference chair/organizer/committee member for many leading professional conferences. He has been a leading investigator in a number of projects funded by oversea as well as Chinese funding agencies including the National Natural Science Foundation of China.


Born in March, 1964, Chen Yongchuang has achieved a lot in the field of Algebraic Combinatorics,and published more than 70 papers on international academic journals. He set up the Center of Mathematics Combinatorics in Nankai University and established the international journal Combinatorics Yearly in 1997. In 1995, he won the support of the first National Outstanding Youth Foundation; in 1997, he won the Hussein Award for Young Scientists from the UNESCO; two years later, he was chosen as the one of the firstling Specially-invited Professors of the "Yangtse River Scholar Award Program" by the Ministry of Education.

Born in 1957, Li Wei'an, a doctor of both economics and management, dean of Business School, Nankai University and a member of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, excels in company governing and management, as well as network theory research. He has presided over 24 national and provincial longitudinal projects funded by National Natural Science Fund and Social Science Fund, more than 10 projects funded by corporations, and many international co-operative projects. He sets up the first academic organization, the Company Management Center of Nankai University engaging in company governing research; his monograph Company Management won the the tenth Sun Yefang Economic Science Works Award, the highest award of economics in China. In 2004, he was chosen a Specially-invited Professor of the "Yangtse River Scholar Award Program" by the Ministry of Education.

Born in January, 1968, professor Li Weidong, doctor of science, now works at the State Key Laboratory of Element Organic Chemistry in Nankai University. He engages in the teaching and research of organic chemistry, especially in the research of full syntheses chemistry of natural product in the field of syntheses organic chemistry. He participated in the full syntheses of Cembranoids-natural product and its similar, the asymmetric full syntheses of the natural product Lactacystin, and the research on the relationship between structures and bioactivity. He organizes and finishes by himself with new or creative methods the full syntheses of many complex natural products, such as Cephalotaxine, Eudesmanoids, Chamaejasmine and so on, publishing over 60 academic papers in this field. In the year 1995 and 2001 respectively, he won the second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress by the Ministry of Education, the Young Chemist Award by China Chemistry Association in 1995, and the National Outstanding Youth Foundation in 2000. In 1999, he was chosen a Specially-invited Professor of the "Yangtse River Scholar Award Program" by the Ministry of Education. He is also the leader of the National Organic Chemistry Creative Group.

Liu Lin did research on the nuclear transplantation and germ cell maturity in cloning animals (pig and sheep) from September, 1994 to April, 1996, and got three cloning sheep in 1996, with ectogenesis mature germ cell as the receptor, which was the first in the world. From May, 1996 to April, 1998, he undertook studies on the molecule mechanism of germ cell activation, the cow and rabbit somatic cell cloning and transgene; ever since May, 1998, he has been participating in the research of signal transfer and molecule mechanism of the old and dying germs under the interwork of forepart-developed karyoplasm. In addition, he has published 25 papers on international journals such as Nature, Biotechnology, Biology of Reproduction, American Journal of Physiology, Molecular Reproduction and Development and co-authored one monograph, 25 of his papers are embodied by SCI and cited over 100 times. In 2003, he was chosen as a Specially-invited Professor of the Yangtse River Scholars Award Program by the Ministry of Education.

Born in 1954, Liu Yu has made systematic and profound research on Host-Guest Chemistry and Supra molecular Chemistry, and on the identification and assembly of Active Organic Molecules. He has published more than 300 papers on influential journals both home and abroad (85 of which the impact factor is over 3.0), and has been cited over 1500 times. He has compiled 2 monographs and co-compiled 7 monographs. So far he has been invited to give over 40 lectures both home and abroad. He won the support of the National Outstanding Youth Foundation in 1996, and was selected as one of the first Millions of Talents by the Ministry of Personnel in 1999. In 2001 he was chosen a Specially-invited Professor of the Yangtse River Scholar Award Program by the Ministry of Education.

Born in October, 1948, Long Yiming is a Specially-invited Professor of the Yangtse River Scholar Award Program by the Ministry of Education. His main contributions include: first put forward the index theory of degenerated Symplectic Paths in the world; set up a systematic index iterative theory for it and successfully applied it in the study of nonlinear Hamiltonian systems which was considered "a decisive contribution to the development of the index". He was the specially-invited speaker in the 2002 international mathematics conference, published more than 60 papers and books, and got many awards such as the Excellent Young Scholar Award by Hong Kong Truth-seeking Science & Technology Foundation, the Chen Xingshen Mathematics Award by China Mathematics Association, the first Prize of Natural Science Award by the Ministry of Education, the 2nd Prize of National Natural Science Award, and Mathematics Award by the Third World Academy of Sciences.

Born in 1962, Wang Lei mainly researches on microorganism genomics, functional genomics and rapid test of microorganism. He has published 57 SCI-embodied papers on important international journals and has been cited for 400 times, the whole impact factor of which is 177. So far he has got altogether 74 patent warrants. Now he serves as a member of the School Affairs Committee of Nankai University, an expert of the 10th and 11th microorganism disciplinary appraisal panel of the National Natural Science Foundation Committee, a member of the Academic Committee of the National Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, he has received over 17 awards such as the award of the National Outstanding Youth Foundation. In 2003, he was chosen as a Specially-invited Professor of the Yangtse River Scholar Award Program by the Ministry of Education.

Born in 1963, Xi Zhen mainly focuses on the study of pesticide and biochemics, and knows a lot in the field of resistance mechanism of pesticide molecular, the design and synthesis of active Molecular and Nucleic Acid chemistry. He develops the DFT-QSAR theory, sets up the model for weedicide molecular resistance, puts forward a new mechanism for anti-tobacco mosaic virus, designs and synthesizes small molecular identifying Non Watson-Crick Nucleic Acid and modulates its biological function, which includes DNA Slippage, Viruses assembly, Proteins synthesis and RNA interference. He is now a member of the Disciplinary Appraisal Panel under the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, and in 2001, he was chosen a Specially-invited Professor of the Yangtse Scholars Award Program by the Ministry of Education.

Born in 1966, Xu Jingjun is an expert in the field of Photonics. He is in charge of the national 863 Program, 973 Program and several key projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation. He discovers and invents a series of new effects, mechanisms and equipment, and has published more than 120 SCI-embodied papers. In 1998, he got the support from the National Outstanding Youth Foundation, and the Award for National Young Scientist in 2006, and was chosen a Specially-invited Professor of the Yangtse River Scholar Award Program by the Ministry of Education in 1999.

Born in 1961, Yan Xiuping mainly focuses on the research of environment analysis chemistry (Hyphenated Method, sample pretreatment, speciation and persistent pollutants analysis), inorganic analytic biochemistry (the important analytic chemistry problems in metallomics and biochemistry, the reciprocity of metal ions, chemical pollutants and biologic molecule), as well as the application of advanced materials in analytic chemistry. He got the support from the National Outstanding Youth Foundation, and won the second Prize of National Natural Science Award and first Prize of Science and Technology Award by China Analysis and Test Association. In 2006, he was chosen a Specially-invited Professor of the Yangtse River Scholar Award Program by the Ministry of Education.

Born in 1964, Zhang Weiping mainly focuses on the research of the Atiyah-Singer index theory in the field of global differential geometry, which unites and extends a series of former theorems, the specification and proof of it relating to geometry, topology and analysis. He has published more than 40 papers, and many of which have been cited by the world academia, initiating related researches. He was awarded the first Mathematics Award for Excellent Young Scholar by Truth-seeking Foundation, won the support of the Outstanding Youth Fund by Natural Science Foundation Committee, the Mathematics Award by the Third World Academy of Sciences, the Yangtse River Scholar Achievement Award, and the first chosen Specially-invited Professor of the Yangtse Scholar Award Program by the Ministry of Education.

Born in February, 1957, Zhou Qilin mainly focuses his research on the asymmetric synthesis and organometallic chemistry, which includes organic synthetic methodology, the design and synthesis of Novel Chiral Stationary Phases and Chiral catalysts, the research on efficient asymmetric catalytic effects, the synthesis of bioactive compound and Chiral medicine. He has published more than 100 papers, which have been cited over 1000 times, co-compile 4 monographs, applied for 8 patents in China, and completed many research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation. In 1997, he got the support of National Outstanding Youth Foundation, and was chosen a Specially-invited Professor of the Yangtse Scholar Award Program by the Ministry of Education in 1999.


Zhou Qixing (male, May, 1963--): Professor and doctoral advisor, Zhou is now the head of Environment Science and Engineering College of Nankai University. His research covers the following fields: Compound-pollution Ecology and molecule processing; Ecological restoration of environmental pollution and ecological chemistry of pollution-control; urban environment project. At least 400 academic papers have been seen in major academic journals or magazines at home and abroad, among which more than 150 papers have been included by SCI or EI. In addition, 10 monographic books have been published, 20 programs have been recognized as national patents and various lectures and special reports are up to 30 times at both national and international academic conferences. In the year of 2002, he was awarded National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation and acknowledged as the winner of the Eighth China's Youth Science and Technology Award. In 2004, he was selected a member of the National Project of New-century Hundred-Thousand Talents and also was chosen as a Specially-invited Professor of the Yangtse River Scholar Award Program by the Ministry of Education.