Prof. Lifeng Chi has been elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), according to the list published by CAS on Nov 18, 2021 with an enrollment of 65 Chinese scientists and 25 Foreign members. CAS membership is the highest academic accolade in the field of science and technology in China. This is the first time for a CNST&FUNSOM professor to receive this honor on the job, which marks a milestone in our college’s research and talent training enterprise.
About Prof. Lifeng Chi
Lifeng Chi, female, was born in October 1957 in Changchun, Jilin Province. She received her B.S. degree in physics and M.S. degree in physical chemistry from Jilin University, China. She earned her Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry/University of Göttingen, Germany in 1989. From January 1990 to March 1993, she worked at the University of Mainz and BASF as postdoc. She then joined the University of Münster and received a Lise Meitner scholarship in 1997. In 2000, she finished her habilitation in physics in the area of nano-structuring through self-organization. She became a professor in physics at the University of Münster in 2004. From 2003 to 2011, she also worked as a double-appointed professor of Jilin University. In 2011, she was selected as a national distinguished expert, and then appointed as Professor (Principal Investigator) at Soochow University in 2012 at the Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM). Currently, she also serves as the associate editor ofthe Journal of Chemistry of Colleges and Universities, as well as editorial board member or advisory board member ofACS Nano, Chem. Commun., Small, Acc. Mater. Res, etc. In 2016, she won the ACS Nano Lectureship Award in the United States. In 2017, she was awarded the IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering. In 2020, she was elected as a foreign academician of the Academia Europaea and one of the first fellows of the Chinese Chemical Society. In 2021, Chi was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Research Field
Prof. Chi’s research is focused on on-surface chemistry, self-assembly, structured surfaces and thin films, scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic force microscopy.
Academic contributions
Prof. Chi proposed a molecular assembly/reaction method regulated by surface lattice, and obtained a new understanding of the selective activation of molecules on the surface from the single bond level. Her research has made important contributions to the development of surface physical chemistry and has achieved substantial innovations. She has published more than 450 peer-reviewed papers which have been cited more than 13,000 times, including papers inNature, Science, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.，Acc. Chem. Res., Adv. Mater., etc.
Edited by Danting Xiang
Translated by Jin Wang