Zuowei Xie

Zuowei Xie Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Webpage: http://www.chem.cuhk.edu.hk/faculty_xie_zuowei.htm Professor Zuowei Xie obtained a BSc degree from Hangzhou University in 1983 and a MS degree from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986. After earning a PhD from a joint Ph.D. program of Technische Universität Berlin and Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry in 1990, he spent one year as a Research Associate in the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Southern California. He then joined the Department of Chemistry at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995 as an Assistant Professor, and is currently a Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean of Faculty of Science. His research interests encompass the chemistry of boron clusters, carboranes and metallacarboranes, organometallic chemistry of transition metals, homogenous catalysis and the activation of small molecules. Professor Xie has co-authored over 210 publications in peer-reviewed journals and received an array of honors and awards, including the State Natural Science Award in 2008, the Chinese Chemical Society Huang Yao-Zeng Award in Organometallic Chemistry in 2010, Research Excellence Award from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2007 and the Croucher Award from The Croucher Foundation (Hong Kong) in 2003. He also serves on the editorial board of Organometallics, Dalton Transactions, Science China (Chemistry), Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers and Chinese Journal of Chemistry.