Academic Position for Dr Dawei Zhang
- Apr 14, 2021
- 1 min read
Updated: May 3, 2021

Dr Dawei Zhang leaves the Nitschke group in order to start his independent academic career in China. He will become a tenure-track professor at East China Normal University (ECNU) supported by the “Zijiang Outstanding Young Scholars” program at ECNU, and will start his own research group in supramolecular and green chemistry in May 2021.
As a Herchel Smith postdoctoral research fellow, Dawei has worked for four years in the group and led a wide variety of projects. He has published 10 first-author works in JACS, Angew. Chem., Nature Rev. Chem. and Acc. Chem. Res., as well as contributing key insights to numerous other studies. Considerable additional work remains in the pipeline.
Congratulations Dawei, we wish you all the best for your future research as a principal investigator. We do not doubt your future success!






















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