The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS) recently announced its newly elected fellows. Prof. Lifeng Chi, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has been elected as a TWAS Fellow.
TWAS was founded in 1983 by a distinguished group of scientists from the developing world, under the leadership of Abdus Salam, the Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate. It is based in Trieste, Italy. TWAS is a non-governmental, non-political, non-profit international scientific organization committed to supporting and promoting scientific research in developing countries. This time, 47 new TWAS Fellows were elected, six of whom are from mainland China.
Prof. Lifeng Chi received her B.S. degree in physics and M.S. degree in physical chemistry from Jilin University, China. She earned her Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry/University of Göttingen, Germany in 1989. Currently, she serves as the associate editor of ACS Nano and the Journal of Chemistry of Colleges and Universities, as well as editorial board member or advisory board member of Chem. Commun., Small, Acc. Mater. Res, etc. In 2016, she won the ACS Nano Lectureship Award in the United States. In 2017, she was awarded the IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering. In 2020, she was elected as a foreign academician of the Academia Europaea and one of the first fellows of the Chinese Chemical Society. In 2021, she was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Chi’s research is focused on on-surface chemistry, self-assembly, structured surfaces and thin films, scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic force microscopy. Prof. Chi proposed a molecular assembly/reaction method regulated by surface lattice, and obtained a new understanding of the selective activation of molecules on the surface from the single bond level. Her research has made important contributions to the development of surface physical chemistry and has achieved substantial innovations. She has published nearly 500 peer-reviewed papers in high-impact journals, including Science and Nature.
Editor: Juan Yang
