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 Universitӓt 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 Universität  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