EDUCATION
1993-1996, Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University. Received PhD degree in June, 1996 (with Prof. Ru-Yu Chen).
1988-1991, Institute of Organic Synthesis, Central China Normal University. Received MS degree in June, 1991 (with Prof. Jing-Ling Zhang)
1980-1983, Department of Chemistry, Hanjiang Normal University, Shiyan, CHINA.
ACADEMIC CAREER
2003-, Professor, Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, CHINA.
1999-2003, Postdoctoral associate, NEDO fellow, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan (with Prof. Toshiyasu Sakakura).
1996-1998, Postdoctoral associate, Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University (with Prof. Ren-Xi Zhuo).
RESEARCH AREAS
(1) Carbon dioxide chemistry
(2) Green chemistry
HONORS AND AWARDS
2011, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
2018, Max-Plank-Institute lectureship
2019, Distinguished visiting professor in CSIRO (The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia)
2025, “Re-inventing university Y2025” Guest professor, Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, Thailand.
EDITORAL BOARDS
2012- Series Editor, Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology (Springer).
2013- Member, Editorial Board of Journal of CO2 Utilization.
2016- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of CRC Press “Green Syntheses”.
2016- Member, Editorial Board of Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry.
2018- Member, Editorial Board of Chinese Science Bulletin.
2020- Member, Editorial Board of Green Chemical Engineering.
2021- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of ChemistryOpen.
2022- Associate Editor of Frontier of Chemistry.
2024- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Wulihuaxue Xuebao
2025- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of ChemCatChem.
2025- Member, Editorial Board of Carbon and Hydrogen.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Li-Qi Qiu, Hong-Ru Li,* and Liang-Nian He*, Incorporating Catalytic Units into Nanomaterials: Rational Design of Multipurpose Catalysts for CO2 Valorization, Acc. Chem. Res. 2023, 56, 2225-2240.
Fang-Yu Ren, Chaopeng Hu, Wen-Bin Huang, Ling-Hao Duan, Yun-Zhu Meng, Xiu-Lan Li, Zhi Fang, Xin-Yuan Zhao, Wen Wang, Xiang-Shuai Li, Jian Zhao, Xiang-Yu Zhang, Sheng-Li Hou, Hang Xu, Ying Shi, Prof. Liang-Nian He*, Prof. Bin Zhao*. Modulated Multicomponent Reaction Pathway by Pore-Confinement Effect in MOFs for Highly Efficient Catalysis of Low-Concentration CO2. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202503898.
Zhi-Wen Yang, Jin-Mei Chen, Li-Qi Qiu, Wen-Jun Xie, Liang-Nian He*, Molecular Engineering of Metal Complexes for Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reducton: From Adjustment of Intrinsic Activity to Molecular Immobilization, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202205301
Fang-Yu Ren, Kaihong Chen, Li-Qi Qiu, Jin-Mei Chen, Donald J. Darensbourg*, Liang-Nian He*, Amphiphilic Polycarbonate Micellar Rhenium Catalysts for Efficient Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction in Aqueous Media, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202200751.
Mei-Yan Wang, Xin Jin, Xiao-Fei Wang, Shu-Mei Xia, Yue Wang, Shou-Ying Huang, Ying Li, Liang-Nian He*, Xinbin Ma*, Copper‐Catalyzed and Proton‐Directed Selective Hydroxymethylation of Alkynes with CO2, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 3984-3988.
