Prof Liqun Zhang, received his PhD degree in 1995 from Beijing University of Chemical Technology of China. He was Visiting Scholar at University of Akron in 1999-2000, and Postdoctoral Fellow at Case Western Reserve University in 2000-2001. He was appointed as a Cheung Kong Scholar by Ministry of Education of China in 2005 and received the Distinguished Young Scientist Foundation from NSFC in 2007. Prof Zhang has been very active in the research field of polymer science Prof Liqun Zhang, received his PhD degree in 1995 from Beijing University of Chemical Technology of China. He was Visiting Scholar at University of Akron in 1999-2000, and Postdoctoral Fellow at Case Western Reserve University in 2000-2001. He was appointed as a Cheung Kong Scholar by Ministry of Education of China in 2005 and received the Distinguished Young Scientist Foundation from NSFC in 2007. Prof Zhang has been very active in the research field of polymer science and technology for over 25 years since his bachelor thesis in 1990 and has been leading the Center of Advanced Elastomer Materials (www.caem.buct.edu.cn), which holds a leading position in China in the field of elastomeric polymer science and technology and possesses an internationally well recognized fame. He is also the head of Key Lab. of Beijing City on Preparation and Processing of Novel Polymer Materials, the head of Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education on Energy and Resource Saved Elastomers, and associate head of State Key Lab of Organic-Inorganic Composites, China. He is the fellow of China Chemistry Industry and Engineering Society, the fellow of China Materials Research Society, the fellow of China Composite Materials Society, the fellow of China Nano Science and Technology Society, vice president of China Rubber Division, vice president of China Polymer Materials Engineering Division, and vice president of China Micro-Nano Composites Division, etc. Currently, he is serving as an editorial board member of “Express Polymer Letter”, “Mini Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry (USA)”, “Journal of Applied Polymer Science (USA)”, “Rubber Chemistry and Technology (USA)”, “Plastics, Rubber and Composites: Macromolecular Engineering (UK)”, “Elastomers and Composites (Korea)” and other 9 Chinese scientific journals.
His current research interests are (I) design, synthesis and processing of biomaterials and Biobased Engineering Elastomers. (II) preparation and processing of advanced and novel elastomer nanocomposites. (III) complex structure description and the relation between multi-scaled structures and performance of elastomer composites by advanced simulation methodology and instruments. Around these fields, he has published over 300 international peer reviewed papers on above subjects. His papers have been cited by peers in a positive manner for over 5126 times (Web of Science) with an H-index of 37. He is a (co-)author of 8 books (chapters) and has given over 60 plenary/keynote/invited lectures in international conferences. He had chaired many sessions in international conferences and 4 times co-chaired conferences or taken the vice-chairman of program committee of International Conferences. He has filed 120 Chinese patents and 3 international ones. He has received many high reputed scientific awards from relative Association, Society, Ministry and Committee of China including prestigious “9th China Youth Scientific Award” and “National Invention Award”.
In 2012, he received Spark-Thomas Award from ACS Rubber Division, Asia Research Award from Society of Chemical Engineering of Japan. In 2014, he got the Morand Lambla Award from International Polymer Processing Society, which were due to his important contributions to elastomeric polymer science and technology.
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