Poster #47 - Lei Fang

Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States

Biography

Dr. Fang obtained his BSc and MSc degrees from Wuhan University in China. He received his PhD diploma (2010) from Northwestern University, supervised by Nobel Laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart. Dr. Fang spent two and half years at Stanford University as a postdoctoral scholar in Professor Zhenan Bao’s group. In 2013, he started his independent academic career as an assistant professor at Texas A&M University, where he leads a multidisciplinary research group studying functional organic materials with applications on multiple fronts. He received KANEKA Junior Faculty Award in 2015 and was honored as one of the ACS PMSE Young Investigators in 2017. Dr. Fang is also the recipient of NSF CAREER award in 2017, and the Polymers Young Investigator Award in 2018.