Speaker: Prof. Zhenyang LIN (Professor and Head Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Date/Time: 4:30 PM, Jun. 24, 2017(Sat.)

Location: Room 202, Lujiaxi Building

Expert introduction:

Academic qualifications:

1982:  (BSc) Dept of Applied Chemistry, China Univ of Geosciences, Wuhan, PR China

1985:  (MSc) Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS

1989:  (PhD) Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, England

(Advisor: Professor D. Michael P. Mingos, FRS)

1990-1993:  Postdoc Research Associate in Prof. M B Hall’s group, Texas A&M Univ, USA

Previous academic positions held (with dates):

01/1994 – 12/1998:  Assistant Professor at the HKUST

01/1999 – 06/2006:  Associate Professor at the HKUST

Present academic position:

07/2006 – now:  Professor at the HKUST

01/2011 – now:  Head of the Department of Chemistry

Research Interests:

Computational Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry: Structure, Bonding and Reaction Mechanisms of Organometallic, Inorganic and Metal Cluster Compounds