People-Welcome to Zhang group

Prof. Dr. Kai Zhang

张凯

Principal Investigator kai_zhang@fudan.edu.cn

Wenxin Wei

魏文欣

Postdoc Researcher
weiwenxin@fudan.edu.cn

Jie Yin

殷杰

Doctoral Researcher 20110300019@fudan.edu.cn

Sizhe Li

李思哲

Doctoral Researcher 21110300015@m.fudan.edu.cn

Hao Zhang

张皓

Doctor Researcher
22110300034@m.fudan.edu.cn

Yao Lu

卢瑶

Master Student
21210300056@m.fudan.edu.cn

Yue Zhen

甄悦

Master student
22210300087@m.fudan.edu.cn

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Alumni

Dr. Zhuangfei Qian, PhD, 2019 (now at: Yangtze Memory Technology Corp, China)
Ningxin Dai, Master Student, 2020 (now at: Suzhou Science and Technology City Management Committee，China)
Dr. Jeehye Byun, Postdoc, 2018 (now: Senior Researcher at Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KIST))
Dr. Olaia Alvaréz-Bermudez, PhD, 2019
Zhian Lan, Joint PhD, 2018
Ting Zhou, PhD Student, 2018 (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
Dr. Wei Huang, PhD, 2017 (now at: Soochow University, China)
Dr. Run Li, PhD, 2017, (now: Assistant Professor at Hunan University, China)
Dr. Lei Wang, PhD, 2017 (now at: Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
Dr. Beatriz Ma, PhD, 2016 (now at: Dow Chemicals)
Dr. Saman Ghasimi, PhD, 2016
Dr. Zi Jun Wang, PhD, 2016
Eleni Tzeiranidou, Bachelor Student, 2015
Fabian Wittmann, Bachelor Student, 2015

Prof. Kai Zhang is a polymer chemist by training. From 2002 to 2007, he did his undergraduate study and master degree in chemistry at the University of Cologne in Germany. He completed his PhD by the end of 2010 in the group of Professor Bernd Tieke in Cologne, and partly in the group of Professor Peter Skabara at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, working on novel conjugated polymers for photovoltaic applications. From 2011 to 2013, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Markus Antonietti at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany. From 2013 to 2018, he worked at the Department of Physical Chemistry of Polymer with Prof. Katharina Landfester at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research as a research group leader. At the beginning of 2019, he joined the Department of Materials Science, Fudan University. His research activity is mainly focused on photoactive polymer materials for catalytic studies.

Kai is currently associate editor of the journal Polymer International (Wiley). He holds a Guest Professorship “la chaire TOTAL de la Fondation Ballard” at Pole Chimie, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France. He was selected to the “Young Leaders in Science” by the Schering Foundation, Germany in 2016, and awarded with the Grants for outstanding young university teachers and professors of chemistry, German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) . He was selected as 2018 Emerging Investigator by Royal Chemical Society (RSC), in Materials Science (Journal of Materials Chemistry A), and is one of the “2019 Top 10 Leading Chinese Talents for Science and Technology in Europe”.

Professional Career and Education

2019 – now: Professor, Department of Materials Science, Fudan University

2013 – 2018: Research group leader and principle investigator, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany

2011-2012: Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Markus Antonietti, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Colloid Chemistry, Potsdam, Germany

2007-2010: PhD in Physical Chemistry with Prof. Bernd Tieke, Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany and with Prof. Peter Skabara, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

2002-2007: Undergraduate and Master study (German Diplom) in Chemistry, University of Cologne, Department of Chemistry, Cologne, Germany