Jiatao Zhang

Talk: Heterovalent doped quantum dots and heterostructures to metal under large lattice mismatch

Jiatao Zhang earned his PhD in 2006 from chemistry department of Tsinghua University, China. Then he worked as postdoctoral research fellow in Prof. Dieter Fenske group of Karlsruhe institute of Technology from 2006 to 2007. From 2008 to 2011, he worked as research associate in Min Ouyang group of physics department, University of Maryland, College Park. From 2011 to now, he is working as Xu Teli Professor , Beijing Institute of Technology.

In 2011, he was awarded Program of New Century Excellent Talents, Ministry of Education of China. In 2012, he was awarded Program of Excellent Talents, Beijing Government. In 2013, he was awarded Excellent Young Scientist foundation of NSFC. He serves as the director of Construction-Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications Beijing Key Laboratory (from 2015). He has published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature(first author), Science(first author), Nature Nanotech., Nature Commun., JACS, Chem.Rev., Chem, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nano Lett., Adv. Mater.etc. His research interest is: Colloidal semiconductor doped and hetero-nanocrystals to possess novel optical, electronic properties for applications in optoelectronics, energy conversion and storage, catalysis and biology.