Prof. Dong Hui Zhang graduated from Fudan University of China in 1985, and received his Ph. D. from New York University, USA in 1994. He had worked as a postdoctoral research associate in New York University and The University of Chicago. He started his professional career at Department of Computational Science, National University of Singapore in 1997, first as an Assistant Professor, and was prompted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2000. Since 2004 he has been a Professor in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics(DICP).
Research Interests:
Prof. Zhang’s primary research focuses on developing theoretical dynamics methods to study chemical reactions and related dynamics processes, in close interaction with experiment. The aims of our studies are to unveil the fundamental mechanisms of chemical reactions and to investigate chemical reactions of importance in combustion, atmospheric, and heterogeneous processes. We have played a pivotal role in developing quantum reactive scattering into its current stage where all dynamical information for most triatomic reactions and some simple tetraatomic reactions can be affordably calculated. For systems involving more than four atoms, we pursue dynamical results as accurate as possible by using reduced dimensionality approaches with the limit to the current computer power. We are also interested in constructing highly accurate potential energy surfaces for systems of chemical interesting on which accurate dynamics calculations can be carried out.
Honors:
Member of CAS, China 2017
National Natural Science Awards (2nd class), China, 2014
Liaoning Province Science and Technology Awards (1st class), China, 2013
Outstanding Young Scholar Award, NSFC, China 2006
Collaboration Fund Award for Young Oversea Chinese Scholar, NSFC, China, 2003
National Science Award, AStar, Singapore, 2003
Young Scientist Award, Singapore National Academy of Science, 2000
Margaret and Herman Sokol Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, New York University, 1994
Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, New York University, 09/93 – 06/94
Developmental Fellowship, New York University, 09/89 – 06/90
