RSC Desktop Seminar - Hosted by Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons

Xun Wang received his bachelor's and master's degree in chemical engineering from Northwest University (Xi`an, China) in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Tsinghua University in 2004. Then he joined the faculty of Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University as an assistant professor in 2004. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2005 and full professor in 2007. Wang was appointed Vice-dean, and then Dean of the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University 2011 and then 2014, respectively. He was awarded the National Science Foundation for Outstanding Young Scholars in 2007, the ChangJiang Professor (Ministry of Education, China) in 2014 and appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2015. His current research interests include synthetic methodology, self-assembly and properties of inorganic nanocrystals.

Nobuhiko Hosono is a Lecturer in Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at The University of Tokyo. He received his PhD in polymer chemistry at The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2011. Following postdoctoral appointments at Eindhoven University of Technology under JSPS research fellowship, he was promoted to an Assistant Professor of the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Kyoto University, Japan, in 2014. Since 2018, he has joined in The University of Tokyo as a lecturer. His research field is centered on polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).

Mengye Wang received both her Bachelor’s degree and PhD from Xiamen University under the supervision of Professor Changjian Lin. She was also a visiting PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology working under the supervision of Professor Zhiqun Lin, completing her PhD in early 2015, followed by a Postdoc at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Since July 2018 Mengye is an Associate Professor at the School of Materials at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. Her research focusses on the growth of large size semiconductor single crystal, advanced materials for photocatalysis and catalytic mechanism.