CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DATA
Name: Zhijun Chen
Work Address: Northeast Forestry University, 26 Hexing Road, Xiangfang Distract, Heilongjiang Province, 150040
Email:chenzhijun@nefu.edu.cn
Education
2013.09-2017.04 Ph.D. in Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
2010.09-2013.03 Master of Leather Chemistry and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology
2006.09-2010.07 Bachelor of Forest Products Chemical Processing, Northeast Forestry University
Professional Experience
2017.05-present Professor,College of Material Science and Engineering, Northeast Forestry University
Research Interests
a) Photochemical fundamentals of biomass sources
b) Optical materials from sustainable resources
Recent Publications
1. Yingxiang Zhai, Shujun Li*, Jian Li, Shouxin Liu, Tony D. James*, Jonathan L. Sessler*, Zhijun Chen*. Room temperature phosphorescence from natural wood activated by external chloride anion treatment. Nature Communications, 2023, 14(1): 2614.
2.Xiaolin Guo, Xinpeng Zhao, Dr. Xiongfei Luo, Yulian Pang, Bing Tian, Shouxin Liu, Shujun Li, Jian Li, Bernd Strehmel*, Zhijun Chen*. A Sustainable Wood-Based Iron Photocatalyst for Multiple Uses with Sunlight: Water Treatment and Radical Photopolymerization.Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2023, e202301242;
3. Keliang Wan, Bing Tian, Yingxiang Zhai, Yuxuan Liu, He Wang, Shouxin Liu, Shujun Li, Wenpeng Ye, Zhongfu An*, Changzhi Li*, Jian Li, Tony D. James Zhijun Chen*. Structural materials with afterglow room temperature phosphorescence activated by lignin oxidation. Nature Communications, 2022, 13(1): 5508.
4. Xiongfei Luo, Jianyong Wan, Nicolai Meckbach, Veronika Strehmel, Shujun Li, Zhijun Chen, Bernd Strehmel, A Porphyrin-Based Organic Network Comprising Sustainable Carbon Dots for Photopolymerization.Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, 61(40): e202208180.
5. Keliang Wan, Yingxiang Zhai, Shouxin Liu, Jian Li, Shujun Li, Bernd Strehmel, Zhijun Chen*, Tony D. James, Sustainable Afterglow Room-Temperature Phosphorescence Emission Materials Generated Using Natural Phenolics,Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, 61, e202202760.
Awards and Scholarships
1. Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (2018)
2. Excellent Young Scholar Sponsorship Program by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration of China (2019)
3. 2nd Award ofScience & Technology by Ministry of Education (2019)
4. Young Chang Jiang Scholar (2020)
5. Natural Science Funding of Heilong Jiang Province for Excellent Young Scholar (2020)
Professional Services
1. Associate Editors on Applied Research, 2022
2. Council Members of Chemical and Chemical Branch of Forest Products, Chinese Society of Forestry, 2019-2024
3. Youth editorial board on Journal of forestry Engineering,2019-2020
4. Reviewers for ACS journals, RSC journals, Elsevier Journals,etc.
