Organizing Committee Member
Wei Zhang
Professor
University of Massachusetts Boston
USA
Biography
Prof. Wei Zhang is the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He had positions of Research Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Senior Chemist at DuPont Agricultural Products, and Director of Discovery Chemistry at Fluorous Technologies, Inc. (FTI). His research is in the areas of green chemistry, fluorous chemistry, synthetic free radicals, organocatalysis, and medicinal chemistry. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers including three Chem. Rev. and four Tetrahedron Reports, and a book “Green techniques for organic and medicinal applications†(Willey 2012 & 2017). He is currently severing as editor and editorial advisory member on seven international journals including ACS Combinatorial Science and Green Processing and Synthesis. He received the International Fluorous Technology Award in 2015
Research Area
Green chemistry