Office: S511, Meng Min Wei SciTech Building (蒙民伟科技大楼南楼511)

Department of Chemistry
Tsinghua University
No.1, Tsinghua University campus
Haidian, Beijing 100084, P.R. China

Tel: +86-10-62797689
Email: zgshuai AT tsinghua.edu.cn

School of Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
(香港中文大学（深圳）理工学院)
2001 Longxiang Boulevard, Longgang District, Shenzhen 518172, P.R. China.

Email: shuaizhigang AT cuhk.edu.cn

Researcher ID: H-5576-2011,  GVT-7097-2022
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3867-2331

 Honours and Awards

• Hundred-Talent Top 20% award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2004) 百人计划结题优秀
  
• Outstanding Young Investigator Award of the National Natural Science Foundation (2004) 杰出青年科学基金
  
• Awardee of the National Talent Program (Ministry of Personnel) (2006) 百千万人才计划国家级人选
  
• Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education (2008) 长江学者特聘教授
  
• Elected Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (2008) 国际量子分子科学院院士
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2009) 英国皇家化学学会会士
• Foreign Member of the Academy of Europe (2011) 欧洲科学院外籍院士
  
• Chinese Chemical Society - Akzo-Nobel Award for Chemical Sciences (2012) 中国化学会 - 阿克苏诺贝尔化学科学奖
  
• Membre Associé of the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (2013) 比利时皇家科学文学艺术院外籍院士
• Awardee of the Peoples Republic of China State Council Special Allowance (2013) 享受国务院特殊津贴
  
• National Excellent Scientist Award (China Association of Science and Technology) (2014) 全国优秀科技工作者
  
• Elected Board Member of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) (2017-)
  
• French Chemical Society 2018 Prix Franco-Chinois
• Honorary Member of Physical Society of Uzbekistan
• Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society
• 2014年清华大学优秀博士论文指导教师，二等奖
• 2017年清华大学优秀博士论文指导教师，二等奖
• 2019年清华大学毕业生就业工作先进个人荣誉
• 2021年清华大学先进工作者
• First Class Award, Beijing Municipal Natural Science Prize. 2020年北京市自然科学奖一等奖 (1/5)

• 2020 and 2021 Most Cited Chinese Researchers

• World top 2% scientists from Stanford University

Research Interests

• Excited states decay theory and organic light-emitting diodes 
• Charge and heat transport in organic semiconductors and 2d nanomaterials
• Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics for organic and polymeric materials
• Self-assembly of supramolecules

CV

Journal Editorials

• Associate Editor of Acta. Chim. Sin. (CCS, 2012-)，J. Mater. Chem. A (RSC, 2016-2019), and Univ. Chem. (PKU, 2015-2017).
• Chairman of ChemRxiv Governing Board (2021).
• Editorial Board Member of: National Science Review (CAS, 2017-), J. Mater. Chem. C (RSC, 2014-), Theor. Chem. Acc. (Springer, 2010-), Sci China Chem. (CAS, 2008.1-2017.12, 2019-2022), Progress in Chemistry (CAS, 2009-), Science Bulletin (CAS, 2015-); Adv. Theory Simul. (2017-); Chemical Journal of Chinese Universities (2019 -); Research (Science Partner Journal) (2021-); Synthetic Metals (2021-).
  
• (International) Advisory Board Member of: Journal of Physical Chemistry (ACS, 2017-2022), ChemPhysChem (2019-2022), WIRES Comput Mol Sci (Wiley, 2015-), Chem. Phys. Lett. (Elsevier,2015-), Chem. Asian J. (Wiley, 2014-), Nanoscale (RSC, 2012-), Nanoscale Advances (RSC, 2018-).

Services

• Vice President of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (2019-2021)
• Vice President of the Chinese Chemical Society (2019-2022, 2023-2026) 中国化学会副理事长 
• Elected Executive Council Member of the Chinese Chemical Society (2011-2014, 2015-2018, 2019-2022, 2023-2026) 中国化学会常务理事
• Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Chemical Society (2007-2010, 2011-2014, 2015-2018)中国化学会副秘书长
• Chairman of the Theoretical Chemistry Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society (2015-2018) 中国化学会理论化学委员会主任
• National Representative of the IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Education (2010-2017)
• Associate Member of the IUPAC Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division (2018-2019)
• Titular Member of the IUPAC Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division (2020-2021, 2022-2023)
• Elected Bureau Member of IUPAC (2022-2023)
• Elected to the Executive Committee of IUPAC (2022-2025)
• IUPAC Coordinator for the International Year of Basic Science for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD 2022), an initiative approved by United Nation General Assembly 2021.
• Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee of the MOE Key Laboratory of Organic OptoElectronics and Molecular Engineering, Tsinghua University (2018-)
• Member of the Academic Committee of the following institutions: The Institute of Chemistry of the CAS (2002-), State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface (Xiamen University, 2009-), CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids (2018-), The MOE Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry (Nanjing University, 2008-), Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University (2008-), The MOE Key Laboratory of Organosilicon Chemistry and Materials Technology (Hangzhou Normal University, 2016-), Tsinghua Institute for Flexible Electronics (2018-).
  
• Member of the following CCS committees: Theoretical Chemistry Committee (2007-), Organic Solids Committee (2002-), Physical Organic Chemistry Committee (2017-), Physical Chemistry Division (2019-).
• 中国科协国际科学理事会中国委员会(ISC-CHINA)委员 (2022-2025).
  

Recent Selected papers

1. Wen Shi, Tianqi Zhao, Jinyang Xi, Dong Wang*, and Zhigang Shuai*, Unravelling Doping Effects on PEDOT at the Molecular Level: From Geometry to Thermoelectric Transport Properties. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137(40), 12929-12938. (doi)
2. Mengqiu Long, Ling Tang, Dong Wang, Linjun Wang, Zhigang Shuai*, “Theoretical Predictions of Size-dependent carrier mobility and polarity in graphene”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 17728 – 17729.
3. Hua Geng, Qian Peng, Linjun Wang, Haijiao Li, Yi Liao, Zhiying Ma, Zhigang Shuai*, Towards quantitative prediction of charge mobility in organic semiconductors: tunneling enabled hopping model, Adv. Mater. 2012, 24(26), 3568-3572
4. Zhigang Shuai*, Linjun Wang, Qikai Li, Evaluation of Charge Mobility in Organic Materials: From Localized to Delocalized Descriptions at a First-Principles Level, Adv. Mater. 2011, 23(9), 1145-1153
5. Xiaodi Yang, Caili Wang, Wei Long, Zhigang Shuai*, Influences of crystal structures and molecular sizes on the charge mobility of organic semiconductors: oligothiophenes, Chem. Mater. 2008, 20 (9), 3205 – 3211
6. Mengqiu Long, Ling Tang, Dong Wang, Yuliang Li, Zhigang Shuai*, Electronic Structure and Carrier Mobility in Graphdiyne Sheet and Nanoribbons: Theoretical Predictions, ACS Nano 2011, 5(4), 2593-2600.
7. Qian Peng, Yuanping Yi, Zhigang Shuai*, Jiushu Shao, Towards quantitative prediction of molecular luminescence quantum efficiency: role of Duschinsky rotation, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 9333-9339
8. Qian Peng, Yingli Niu, Qinghua Shi, Xing Gao, Zhigang Shuai*, Correlation Function Formalism for Triplet Excited State Decay: Combined Spin-orbit and Non-adiabatic Couplings, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2013, 9(2), 1132-1143
9. Hua Geng, Xiaoyan Zheng, Zhigang Shuai*, Lingyun Zhu, Yuanping Yi*, Understanding the charge transport and polarities in organic donor-acceptor mixed-stack crystals: molecular insights from the super-exchange couplings. Advanced Materials 2015, 27(8), 1443-1449.
10. Zhigang Shuai*, Dong Wang, Qian Peng, and Hua Geng, Computational Evaluation of Optoelectronic Properties for Organic/Carbon Materials. Accounts of Chemical Research, 2014, 47(11), 3301-3309

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