Lab Director--Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process

Prof. Suojiang Zhang

　Academician, Doctoral Advisor

　Institute of Process Engineering (IPE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

　Tel: 010-82627080

　　Mr. Suojiang Zhang is Director General of Institute of Process Engineering (IPE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Dean of College of Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). Director of Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, and Director of the Professional Committee of Chinese Chemical Society Ionic Liquids and Green Engineering.

　　Prof. Zhang graduated and received his Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University in 1994, and then he joined in Beijing University of Chemical Technology as the postdoctoral fellow. In 1995, he won the scholarship of Japanese Ministry of Education and went to Japan to do research at Nihon University. In 1997, he was employed by Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation. From 1998, he worked there as Senior Engineer and Senior Consultant. From 2001, he joined in IPE as the “Hundred Talents". Now, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Green Energy & Environment and Process Engineering Journal of China, and is serving as Editorial Board Members of several international journals such as Industrial Engineering Chemical Research, Green Chemistry, Journal Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology and so on.

　　Prof. Zhang’s research interest is ionic liquids and green process engineering. He has published more than 300 peer reviewed papers, as well as 8 monographs and 8 chapters by global scientific publishers (e.g., Elsevier and Springer). Till now, his publications have received over 15000 citations by the scientists in the society of chemistry, chemical engineering, and process engineering, with a citation H-index of 60 (Google Scholar). From 2014 to 2017, he was a highly cited scholar by Elsevier. In 2016, he was the Top 1% highly cited scholar by RSC. He devotes himself to promoting the innovation and application of ILs in green process engineering with pioneering achievements. He has filed 120 issued patents including 10 PCT/U.S./Japan patents. He also won several awards, such as the Second Class Prize of National Natural Science Award in 2010, the Science and Technology Promotion Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017.