Chunli Bai#
| Membership Number: | 4206 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | http://baichunli.cas.cn |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 President, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
- 2013 President, TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries, Trieste, Italy)
- 2001 - 2014 President, University of CAS (UCAS)
- 2007 - 2012 Vice President, TWAS, Trieste, Italy
- 2004 - 2011 Executive Vice President, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1996 - 2004 Vice President, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2003 - 2008 Director, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
- 1992 - 1996 Professor and Deputy Director, Institute of Chemistry, CAS. Beijing, China
- 1991 - 1992 Visiting Professor, Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Tohoku University, Japan
- 1985 - 1987 Research Associate, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)
- Scanning probe microscopy (SPM)
- Atomic force microscopy (AFM)
- Structure and property of catalysts
- X-ray crystallography of organic compounds
- Single molecule, molecular nanostructure and self-assembly
- Molecular nanodevice, and novel nanomaterials
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Foreign Honorary Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences(AAAS)
- 2015 Honorary Fellow (Hon FRSE) of Royal Society of Edinburgh(RSE)
- 2014 Foreign Member of the Royal Society,London, UK
- 2013 Corresponding Fellow(FAA) of the Australian Academy of Science
- 2012 Foreign Member of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2011 Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech.de)
- 2008 Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia
- 2006 Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
- 1997 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1997 Fellow of TWAS, Trieste, Italy
- 2015 Honorary Doctor, University of Ottawa, Canada
- 2014 Honorary Doctor of Science (honoris causa), Australia National University (ANU)
- 2012 Honorary Doctorate of Science , University College London(UCL), UK
- 2011 Honorary Doctor, The University of Minnesota, USA
- 2007 Honorary Doctor, LTH/Lund University, Sweden
- 2007 Honorary Doctor, University of Aarhus (dr.scient.h.c.), Demark
- 2010 UNESCO Medal of “Contributions to Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology”
- 2004 HLHL Prize (Chemistry), Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (Hong Kong)
- 2002 Medal Lecture in Chemical Science, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), (Trieste, Italy)
- 2001 International Medal, Society of Chemical Industry (London, UK)
