Professor Xumu Zhang has published more than 350 academic articles in academic journals including Science; J. Am. Chem. Soc.; Angew. Chem. His papers are cited more than 15,000 times, of which a single paper is cited more than 1300 times and his H index is over 75. Professor Zhang received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society in 2002 and was the first mainland Chinese scientist to receive this award. The Zhang enyne cycloisomerization, a named reaction, developed by Professor Zhang is crowned with his last name because of its importance. At present, less than five Chinese in the world have this honor. Professor Zhang won the title of “Shenzhen Gentleman of the Year 2016” because of his contribution to the establishment of the first research institute named after the Nobel Prize winner in China, Shenzhen Grubbs Institute.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
2015 – South University of Science and Technology
Professor of Chemistry
2011 – 2015 Wuhan University
Professor of Chemistry
2007 – 2015 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
DistiguishedProfessor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
1994 – 2006 The Pennsylvania State University
Professor of Chemistry (2003 - 2006)
Associate Professor of Chemistry (1999 - 2003)
Assistant Professor of Chemistry (1994 - 1999)

EDUCATION
1992 – 1994 Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate,
Advisor: Professor James P. Collman
1987 - 1992 Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Ph.D., Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
Advisor: Professor James P. Collman
1985 - 1987 University of California, San Diego, CA
M.S., Inorganic Chemistry
Advisor: Professor Gerhard N. Schrauzer
1982 - 1985 Chinese Science Academy, Fuzhou, People’s Republic of China
M.S., Physical and Inorganic Chemistry
Advisors: Professor Jinling Huang and Professor Jiaxi Lu
1978 - 1982 Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
B.S., Chemistry