Wenbin Zhang

Wenbin Zhang received his BS from Peking University in 2004 and his PhD in Polymer Science from the University of Akron in 2010. He continued there as a postdoc for one year, before moving to Caltech for a second postdoc. He started his independent career at Peking University in 2013 and was promoted to a tenured associate professor in 2019 and to a full professor with tenure in 2020. His goal is to integrate the design principles and building blocks of both synthetic and biological polymers for the development of precision macromolecules with unique functions for health-related applications. He has been an editor of Bioorganic Chemistry since 2011 and the committee member for the Division of Supramolecular Chemistry of Chinese Chemical Society and for the Division of Autoimmunity, Chinese Society for Immunology. To date, he has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers in Science, PNAS, JACS, ACIE, etc. and has received many awards including the “Distinguished Lectureship Award” from the Chemical Society of Japan in 2017, the Distinguished Young Scholars Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2019, the Bayer Investigator Award in 2021, and the Lectureship Award for Innovative Young Supramolecular Chemists, Chinese Chemical Society, in 2023.