Lecture: «OEGylation as a Robust Strategy to Endow Macromolecules with Unprecedent Thermoresponsiveness»
Prof. Dr. Afang Zhang (Lab. of Polymers Chemistry, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Shangai University)
Aula de Seminarios del CIQUS
10:00 h
OEGylation as a Robust Strategy to Endow Macromolecules with Unprecedent Thermoresponsiveness
Professor Afang Zhang earned his bachelor’s degree in Polymer Engineering from Polytechnic University of Hefei, China in 1985 and his master degree in Polymer Chemistry & Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1988. He then spent eight years at Chemistry Institute of Henan, China, where he was a group leader for industrially oriented R&D. There he became an associate professor in 1992 and full professor in 1998. In 1999 he received his PhD at Peking University. After one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Deutsches Kunststoffinstitut (DKI) of Germany, he joined as a senior scientist in Free University of Berlin from 2000 to 2002. 
By the end of 2002 he was appointed distinguished professor in Polymer Chemistry & Physics at Zhengzhou University, China. In early of 2005, he accepted an offer from ETH Zurich, Switzerland to continue his researches in the area of dendronized polymers as an independent senior scientist. By the end of 2009, he returned back to China and joined Shanghai University as the distinguished professor in Polymer Chemistry & Physics. Thereafter, he became a 1000-plan Scholar affiliated to Shanghai Government. Besides, he is the dean of Qianweichang School, one of seventeen pilot schools to Chinese Government.
Prof. Zhang has hosted more than 30 research projects from Chinese and Swiss Governments, and received more than 10 science and technology awards from Chinese Governments. He has published more than 80 journal papers on well-known journals, including JACS, Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., Macromolecules and ChemComm, coauthored 5 book chapters (Wiley, Springer, and RSC). He is the inventor for more than 10 patents. He serves as reviewer for more than 40 international journals and guest editor for several journals, and received more than 30 invited lectures worldwide.
His main research areas comprise dendritic polymers, helical polymers, peptides, and polymers with switchable properties. His most prominent contribution includes synthetic methodology for dendronized polymers, thermoresponsive dendronized polymers, as well as thermoresponsive helical polymers and polypeptides. He presently chairs a group of about 40 researchers, focusing on biomimic and stimuli-responsive macromolecules.