Liangfang Zhang

Liangfang Zhang received his Ph.D. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. He was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer at MIT during 2006-2008. He received his M.S. and B.E. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2002 and 2000, respectively. He joined UC San Diego as an Assistant Professor in July 2008 and was promoted to an Associate Professor with tenure in March 2012 and to Professor in July 2014. Prof. Zhang has published 128 peer-reviewed articles and holds 43 issued/pending patents. He received the Victor K. LaMer Award from the American Chemistry Society in 2009, the Unilever Award from the American Chemistry Society in 2012, the MIT Technology Review’s TR35 Innovator Award in 2013, the Allan P. Colburn Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2014, and was elected to the Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2015. Prof. Zhang was selected as one of The Brilliant 10 in all US science and engineering fields by the magazine Popular Science in 2016.