Zhiping Zheng
Southern University of Science and Technology

Biography
Zhiping Zheng received his education at Peking University (BS’87 and MS’90) and the University of California, Los Angeles (PhD’95 with Professor M. Frederick Hawthorne). He conducted postdoctoral research with Professor Richard H. Holm at Harvard University before joining the faculty of the University of Arizona in 1997. He received many prestigious awards, including the CAREER Award from the US National Science Foundation and the International Junior Research Award from the European Rare Earth and Actinide Society. He was elected as a Fellow of the ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº in 2016.
He relocated his research program to the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech, China) in 2017, where he serves as the Chair Professor and Head of the Department of ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº. He was also the Founding Executive Director of Shenzhen Grubbs Institute at the SUSTech (2018-2019).
His research is primarily concerned with synthetic and materials chemistry of both transition metals and rare earth elements, with a particular interest in molecular and nanostructured materials of significant energy and environmental relevance.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Inorganic ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº Frontiers
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