Faculty

08/2005—PresentProfessor of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen Fujian361005

Associate Director, Director of Fujian Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials

08/1999—07/2005AssociateProfessor of Chemistry, Xiamen University, Xiamen Fujian361005

06/1997—07/1999Postdoctoral Fellow of Chemistry, Xiamen University, Xiamen Fujian361005

07/1993—05/1997Research Associate

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ85721, USA

08/1988—06/1993Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455, USA

07/2006—01/2007Visiting Professor, Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation, National Research Council of Canada, Vancouver, BC V6T 1W5, Canada

05/2007—09/2007Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 117542

• High performance energy materials (fuel cells, lithium ion batteries)

• Novel polymer-derived preparations of rare-earth-doped optical functional ceramics (silicon-based oxynitrides)

• Light porous functional materials (ambient pressure dried silica aerogels and composite aerogels)

• Surface functional coatings and thin films (self-cleaning surfaces, superhydrophobic and superoliophobic surfaces)

• Electrochemical technology (onsite corrosion monitoring)

• Travel Award (Electrochemical Society)

• National Scholarship Award for Youth Outstanding Teachers (China Scholarship Council)

• Xiamen University Qingyuan Award (Research)

• Xiamen University China Bank Award (Teaching)

• Xiamen University Excellent Advisor for Undergraduate Students

• Outstanding Achievement Award for Fujian Returned Overseas Chinese

• Member of Electrochemical Society (ECS), Materials Research Society (MRS), and American Ceramic Society (ACerS)

• Member of Chinese Materials Research Society (C-MRS)

• Editorial board member of Electrochemistry, a journal published by Chinese Chemical Society

• Association vice president in the Test Technique Branch of Chinese Ceramic Society