Professor Zuowei Xie is a member of The Chinese Academy of Sciences and The Hong Kong Academy of Sciences. He is also a Fellow of Chinese Chemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry. Prof. Xie is a Chair Professor of SUSTech. Before joining SUSTech, he was a Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chemistry at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Prof. Xie received his B.S. and M.Sc. degrees from Hangzhou University (now Zhejiang University) and the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He then pursued studies in a joint PhD program between SIOC and Technische Universit?t Berlin, and earned his PhD in chemistry in 1990. Prof. Xie’s main research interests center around organometallic and main group chemistry with the focus on (super)carboranes, metallacarboranes, catalytic B-H bond functionalization and small molecule activation, as well as low-valent main group elements. Prof. Xie has made important contributions to carborane chemistry by developing a general strategy for catalytic selective cage BH functionalization and synthetic methods for the synthesis of supercarboranes. He has co-authored over 330 papers, and his works have been highlighted many times in C&EN. Prof. Xie received several prestigious awards including Hong Kong Research Grants Council Inaugural Senior Research Fellowship Award (2020), the Chinese Chemical Society Yao-Zeng Huang Award in Organometallic Chemistry (2010), the State Natural Science Prize (2008), and The Croucher Award (2003) among others.
Education: 1990 Ph.D., a joint PhD program between Technische Universit?t Berlin/Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1986 M.Sc., Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
1983 B.Sc., Hangzhou University (now Zhejiang University)
Professional Chronology:
Since 2022 Chair Professor, SUSTech
2013-2022 Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2006-2012 Chair Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2002-2006 Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
1998-2002 Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
1995-1998 Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
1991-1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California
1990-1991 Research Associate, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS
Awards:
2020 Hong Kong Research Grants Council Inaugural Senior Research Fellowship Award
2019 Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards in Natural Sciences
2010 Chinese Chemical Society Yao-Zeng Huang Award in Organometallic Chemistry
2008 State Natural Science Prize from the State Commission on Science and Technology of China
2003 Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Award
2001 National Outstanding Youth Investigator Award
