Wan Lijun ( zh, 万立骏, born July 1957) is a Chinese chemist, specializing in

electrochemistry Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry concerned with the relationship between electrical potential difference, as a measurable and quantitative phenomenon, and identifiable chemical change, with the potential difference as an outco ...

and surface science. He is an academician of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...

and a former president of the

University of Science and Technology of China A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

Career

Wan graduated with a B.S. in Engineering from

Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology (DUT) (), colloquially known in Chinese as Dagong (), is a public research university located in Dalian, Liaoning, China, with an additional campus in Panjin, Liaoning. Established in April 1949, it is the ...

in 1982 and received his PhD degree at Tohoku University in 1996. He has been a professor at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) since 1999, and was the director of ICCAS from 2004 to 2013. Afterwards, he directed the Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and the Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS. From 2015 to 2017, Wan was the president of the

. Wan improved the stability and resolution of

electrochemical scanning tunneling microscope The electrochemical scanning tunneling microscope (EC-STM) is a scanning tunneling microscope that measures the structures of surfaces and electrochemical reactions in solid-liquid interfaces at atomic or molecular scales. Development Electrochemi ...

(ECTSM) devices, and resolved a number of related problems, such as the STM imaging mechanisms of various types of chiral molecules. He also designed a series of high-performance electrode materials based on micro/nano composite structures. Wan was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. He is the president of the

All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese The All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese ( zh, s=中华全国归国华侨联合会; abbreviated ACFROC or ) is a United Front organization of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to influence overseas Chinese. ACFROC has 27 seats on th ...

since 2017. During the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party, Wan was elected as a member of the 20th Central Committee.

Awards

* HLHL Science and Technology Achievement Award (2014) *Chemistry Award of TWAS (2009) *2nd-Class Natural Science Award of China (2007)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wan, Lijun 1957 births Living people Alternate members of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Chemists from Liaoning Dalian University of Technology alumni Members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Politicians from Dalian Presidents of the University of Science and Technology of China Tohoku University alumni Educators from Liaoning Chinese Communist Party politicians from Liaoning People's Republic of China politicians from Liaoning