New Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Following a biennial schedule, in November 2019 the Chinese Academy of Sciences has admitted new members to its various sections. Ten scholars have been elected for the Chemistry division: Chunhai Fan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)[1] and Dawei Ma (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry)[2] who were present in this section only recently, Lizhu Wu (Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Beijing) who is featured with her Author Profile[3] in this issue of Angewandte Chemie, and Chunming Xu (China University of Petroleum, Beijing) as well as the six scientists that are introduced in detail below. Xuesi Chen (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry) studied at Jilin University and Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and earned his Doctor s degree from Waseda University (Japan) in 1997 for work supervised by Tichida Eishun and Hiroyuki Nishide. After postdoctoral studies at University of Pennsylvania (USA), he joined the faculty at CIAC as a Professor in 1999. He was made Vice Director of the Academic Committees of the Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, CAS (2009), and of CIAC, CAS (2012). Chen s research interests include the synthesis of Schiff base catalysts for ring-opening polymerization of lactides and other cyclic monomers, preparation of biodegradable polymers for biomedical applications, bone-fracture repair, drug and gene carriers, hydrogels, and industrialization of polylactide as green plastics. He recently published a Communication in Advanced Materials on a nanodrug-induced MMP9 amplification that boosts tumor-selective doxorubicin release.[4] Chen serves on the Advisory Boards of Macromolecular Bioscience, Advanced Therapeutics, and Advanced Healthcare Materials. Jinghong Li (Tsinghua University, Beijing) studied at University of Science and Technology of China and earned his PhD at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS, for work supervised by Shaojun Dong in 1996. He moved to the USA where he had postdoctoral appointments with John Shapley at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, John Kennedy at University of California, Santa Barbara, and Stephen Creager at Clemson University and worked as a Research Scientist for Evonyx Inc. (Hawthorne, NY; 2000– 2001). Upon his return to China, he began his academic career as a Professor at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry and in 2004, he took up his present position as Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University. Li s research interests include electroanalytical chemistry and bioanalysis, nanoanalysis and biosensing, as well as physical, interfacial, materials, and nanoscopic electrochemistry. In Angewandte Chemie, he recently published a Communication with back cover picture on the label-free imaging of cellular calcium signaling[5a] and a Minireview on nanotechnological control of cell-surface receptor clustering.[5b] Li is on the Executive Advisory Board of Small Methods. Jianlin Shi (Shanghai Institute of Ceramics) studied at Nanjing University of Technology and at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, CAS, where he finished his PhD under supervision of Dongsheng Yan in 1989. He stayed at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics until today, working on processing science and solid-state sintering theory of advanced ceramics for more than ten years, before he entered his current research field of mesoporous materials for catalysis and nanomedicine. Shi published a Research Article in Angewandte Chemie on photodynamic therapy with photosensitizer-containing cyanobacteria[6a] and a Communication on the crogenic exfoliation of magnesium.[6b] Jinlong Yang (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei) studied at Nanjing Normal University and at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where he finished his PhD in 1991 working with Kelin Wang. Subsequently, he became a Lecturer (1991) and Associate Professor (1993) at the Center for Fundamental Physics at USTC. He was promoted to Professor in 1996, and in 1997 he took up his current position at the Department of Chemical Physics of USTC. Yang spent time as a Visiting Scholar at Padova University and Cagliari University (Italy) and at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His field of research is theoretical and computational chemistry, focusing on the development of linear scaling electronic structure calculation methods, the design of conceptually new functional materials, and the characterization of single molecules on surface and nanosystems. Yang has reported on azide passivation of black phosphorus nanosheets[7] in a Communication in Angewandte Chemie. Shu-Hong Yu (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei)[8a] studied Chemistry at Hefei University of Technology and Shanghai Research Institute of Chemical Industry. He completed his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 1998 at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC; supervisor: Yitai Qian). Yu was a postdoctoral fellow with Masahiro Yoshimura in the Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT; Japan; 1999–2001), and with Markus Antonietti and Helmut Cçlfen at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany; 2001–2002). He was appointed Full Professor (in 2002) and Cheung Kong Professor (in 2006) in the Department of Chemistry at USTC. Yu Angewandte Chemie News