Prof. Tao Zhang received his PhD in 1989 from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). After one year in University of Birmingham as a post-doctoral fellow, he joined DICP again where he was promoted to a full professor in 1995. He has been the director of DICP for 10 years (2007-2016). He was also the vice president of CAS (2016-2023).
His research interests are mainly focused on Catalytic Conversion of Biomass and Single-Atom Catalysis. He discovered a new process from cellulose to ethylene glycol in 2008 and has just accomplished a pilot demonstration (1000 ton/year) in 2023. Particularlly, In 2011锛宧e coined the new concept 鈥淪ingle-Atom Catalysis鈥, which is now one of the hot research frontiers in catalysis. He has won many important awards, such as Advance of Catalysis Award of the Asian-Pacific Association of Catalysis Societies, Distinguished Award of CCS-Sinopec, ChinaNano Award, National Invention Prize, Distinguished Award of CAS, and Excellent Scientist Award of Chinese Catalysis Society.
Prof Tao Zhang is the author or co-author of more than 600 peer-reviewed publications and 110 patents (H-index 115 and more than 60000 citations). He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Journal of Catalysis, Editorial Board Members of Applied Catalysis B, Green Chemistry, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering锛孋hemPhysChem and Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. He was elected as academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013, fellow of TWAS in 2018, and international fellow of Canadian Engineering Academy in 2020.