Kai Zhang
Organizing Committee Member (SICMSE - 2019)
University of Gottingen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Kai Zhang is the Principal Investigator of the Group Wood Technology and Wood Chemistry in Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany. He received B.Eng. (2002) from Hefei University of Technology, China, Diploma (2007) and Ph.D. (2011) in Chemistry in Dresden University of Technology, Germany. After further research stations as PostDoc in Dresden University of Technology and the Pennsylvania State University, and as Research Group Leader in Darmstadt University of Technology, he joined University of Goettingen in May 2015. He served as Associate Editor (2016-2018) of the journal ‘Hydrogels’ and serves currently as an editorial board member of ‘Scientific Reports’ and ‘Journal of Semiconductors’. He has been appointed as Assistant Professor in Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Junior-Professor in Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He was awarded with 2015 GCCCD Excellent PhD Supervisor Award and one of 10 Leading Chinese Talents on Science and Technology in Europe 2016. He has organized the first ‚Sino-German Young Scientist Forum’ and serves as member of the scientific committee of diverse conferences, such as 5th International Conference on Pulping, Papermaking, and Biotechnology. He has published more than 60 papers in diverse top-tier journals including Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Angewandte Chemie Int Ed, Advanced Functional Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, etc.
Synthesis of biomaterials, chemistry and functional materials from sustainable biomaterials and native nanostructures.