New board member: Professor Buxing Han

Buxing Han was born in 1957. He completed a BS in chemical engineering in 1982 (Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang), an MS in inorganic chemistry in 1985 (Applied Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun) and a PhD in physical chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing in 1988. After a year as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chemistry, he took up a post-doctoral position in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He returned to the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991 and was promoted to Associate Professor in the same year. He has been a full Professor since 1993.

His research group has 35 members including staff, post-docs and students. Principal areas of research include studying physicochemical properties of supercritical fluids and ionic liquids, and their applications in chemical reactions, material science, and extraction and fractionation.

Buxing Han has published 290 papers, 21 patents and has given invited lectures at more than 10 international conferences.

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