Prof. ZHANG Hua
Herman Hu Chair Professor of Nanomaterials, Department of Chemistry
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+852 3442-4102
hua.zhang@cityu.edu.hk
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Dr. Hua Zhang obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Nanjing University in China in 1992 and 1995, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. with Prof. Zhongfan Liu at
Peking University in China in July 1998. He joined Prof. Frans C. De Schryver’s group at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven) in Belgium as a Research Associate in January 1999. Then he moved to Prof. Chad A. Mirkin’s group at
Northwestern University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in July 2001. He started to work at NanoInk Inc. (USA) as a Research Scientist/Chemist in August 2003. After that, he worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Institute of Bioengineering
and Nanotechnology in Singapore from November 2005 to July 2006. Then he joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to a tenured Associate
Professor on March 1, 2011, and Full Professor on Sept. 1, 2013. In 2019, he joined the Department of Chemistry in City University of Hong Kong as a Chair Professor (Herman Hu Chair Professor of Nanomaterials).
He has published 5 invited book chapters, 74 patent applications (including 8 granted US patents and 1 Singapore patent), and over 520 papers, among
which over
330 papers (>60%) were published in IF>10 journals. Some of his papers have been published in Science (1), Nat. Chem. (5), Nat.
Mater. (1), Nat. Catal. (2), Nat. Rev. Mater. (2), Nat. Rev. Chem. (1), Nat. Commun. (11), Sci.
Adv. (1), Nat. Protocols (1), Chem. Rev. (2), Chem. Soc. Rev. (14), Acc. Chem. Res. (3), J. Am.
Chem. Soc. (22), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (28), Adv. Mater. (62), Energy Environ. Sci (12), Chem (3),
Mater (1), Mater. Today (1), Adv. Energy Mater. (10), ACS Nano (32), Nano Lett. (15), Adv.
Funct. Mater. (4), Nano Energy (6), Mater. Horizons (2), Nat. Sci. Rev. (4), ACS Catal. (1),
Small (68), J. Mater. Chem. A (4), Biomater. (1), Chem. Mater. (2), J. Mater. Chem. (9), etc.
Until 10 Oct., 2021, the total cited times are over 90,500 with H-index of 149 (Web of Science), and over 107,900 with H-index of 160 (Google
Scholar). He has been invited to give more than 300 Plenary, Keynote or Invited Talks in international conferences, universities and institutes, and served as the Session Chair. He has organized several tens of
international conferences and served as the Symposium Chair or Conference Co-Chair.
He is one of the two editors-in-chief of SmartMat (2020-), one of three Chairmen of the Editorial Board of
ChemNanoMat (2015-), sits on the Advisory Board of Chem. Soc. Rev. (2012-), Materials Chemistry Frontiers (2016-), Matter (2019-),
Nanoscale (2012-), Nanoscale Horizons (2015-) and NPG Asia Materials (2018-), the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Nano (2014-),
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2014-), Advanced Materials (2019-), Advanced Functional Materials (2018-), Chem. Mater. (2014-),
Nanofabrication (2012-) and Small (2012-), the Editorial Board of ACS Omega (2016-), Applied Materials Today (2015-),
Carbon (2013-), CHEM (2016-), Chinese Science Bulletin (2014-), Energy Storage Materials (2015-),
EnergyChem (2018-), Graphene Technology (2016-), Materials Today Energy (2016-), NANO (2007-), npj 2D Materials and
Applications (2016-) and Science China Materials (2014-), the International Advisory Board of Chemistry – An Asian Journal (2018-), the International Advisory Board
of Materials Research Express (2014-2016) and the the International Editorial Board of ChemPlusChem (2012-2015), and the Scientific Advisory Board of Small
Methods (2017-). He is also one of the members of the Advisory Committee of IOP Asia-Pacific (2010-). In 2020, he was elected as Foreign Fellow of the European
Academy of Sciences. In 2015, he was elected as an Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM). In Nov. 2014, he was elected as a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). In 2016, he was listed in the top 300 most cited researchers in the field of materials science and engineering (Elsevier Scopus). In
2015-2018, he was listed in the "Highly Cited Researchers" in Chemistry and Materials Science (Thomson Reuters). In 2015, he was listed as one of 19
“Hottest Researchers of Today” in the world in the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015 (Thomson Reuters, 2015). In 2014, he was listed in the "Highly Cited Researchers
2014" in Materials Science, and also listed as one of 17 “Hottest Researchers of Today” and No. 1 in Materials and More in the world in the World’s Most
Influential Scientific Minds 2014 (Thomson Reuters, 2014). Moreover, he got the Young Investigator Award (Young Giants of Nanoscience 2016, Hong Kong), Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholar
Award (University of Wollongong, Australia, 2016), ACS Nano Lectureship Award (2015), World Cultural Council (WCC) Special Recognition Award (2013), the
ONASSIA Foundation Lectureship (Greece, 2013), Asian Rising Stars (15th Asian Chemical Congress, 2013), SMALL Young Innovator Award (Wiley-VCH, 2012) and
Nanyang Award for Research Excellence (2011).
