Dr.
Hua Zhang obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Nanjing University in China in
1992 and 1995, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. with Prof. Zhongfan Liu at
Peking University in China in July 1998. He joined Prof. Frans C. De Schryver’s
group at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven) in Belgium as a Research
Associate in January 1999. Then he moved to Prof. Chad A. Mirkin’s group at
Northwestern University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in July 2001. He started to
work at NanoInk Inc. (USA) as a Research Scientist/Chemist in August 2003.
After that, he worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Institute of
Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore from November 2005 to July 2006.
Then he joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering in Nanyang Technological
University (NTU) as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to a tenured
Associate Professor on March 1, 2011, and Full Professor on Sept. 1, 2013. In
2019, he joined the Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong as a
Chair Professor.