Zhigang Shuai

Born August 27, 1962 in Jiangxi, China

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China

Email:zgshuai@tsinghua.edu.cn
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Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the National Science Foundation of China (2004); Deputy Secretary-General, the Chinese Chemical Society (2006–2010); Vice-Chairman of the Theoretical Chemistry Subdivision of the Chinese Chemical Society (2006–2010); Member of the Organic Solids Subdivision of the Chinese Chemical Society (2002–2006, 2006–2010); Advisory Editor of the Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (World Scientific, Singapore); Editorial Board, Science in China: Chemistry (Science in China Press and Springer); Editorial Board, Journal of Molecular Science (Chinese Chemical Society).

Author of:

Author of more than 160 articles in theoretical and physical chemistry and one monograph "Theoretical Chemistry: Principle and Application" (Science in China Press, Beijing, 2008)

Important Contributions:

Quantitative descriptions of light-emitting and fluorescence quantum efficiency for organic materials, theory promises brighter polymer light-emitting-diodes; Nonradiative decay rate formalism; Theoretical description for electron transports in molecular crystals, from hopping to quantum coherent polaron; Electron correlation, excited state structures, and nonlinear optical absorption, quantum chemistry density matrix renormalization group theory and its application to excited state electronic structures of conjugated semiconducting polymer.