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Bao-Lian Su

Bao-Lian Su received his B.Sc. from University of Liaoning in 1983, and M.Sc. from Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986. From September 1986 to September 1989, he held a research position at the Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, Beijing, Sinopec. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at Université P. M. Curie, Paris, France in 1992. He carried out his postdoctoral research in the Laboratory of Catalysis at the University of Namur (FUNDP), Belgium in 1993–1994. After holding a research position at Catalytica Inc. (Mountain View, California, USA), in September, 1995 he joined the faculty at the University of Namur and created the Laboratory of Inorganic Materials Chemistry (CMI). He is currently a Full Professor of Chemistry, Head of the Chemistry Department, Director of the Research Centre for Nanomaterials Chemistry and the Laboratory of Inorganic Materials Chemistry. Prof. Su received a series of honours and awards such as the Invention Award of Sinopec (1992) and A. Wetrems Prize of the Royal Academy of Belgium (Arts, Letters and Sciences) (2007). He is the President of Chemical Society and the President of Materials Research Society of Chinese Scholars in Belgium. He serves as the President of Namur Division of the Royal Chemical Society of Belgium since 2007. He is appointed Guest Professor of Jilin University, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (Chinese Academy of Sciences), East China University of Sciences and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology and Central South China University for Nationalities. He holds a Changjiang Chair Professor position in physics and chemistry of nanomaterials in Wuhan University of Technology, China. He has published more than 200 outstanding scientific papers and 3 patents. His papers have been cited more than 2000 times. His current research fields include the synthesis, the property study and the molecular engineering of organized, hierarchically porous and bio-inspired materials and nanostructures for nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and biomedical applications.