President's International Advisory Council

Chunli Bai

Executive Vice-president, Chinese Academy of Sciences
People‘s Republic of China

Chunli Bai is Executive Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),Vice-President of the China Association for Science and Technology(CAST), and President of the Graduate School of CAS (which has over 30,000 students), Director of Division of Chemistry and a member of Executive Committee of the Presidium.

He graduated from the Department of Chemistry, Peking University in 1978 and received his MS and Ph.D. degrees from the CAS Institute of Chemistry in 1981 and 1985 respectively. During 1985-1987, he was at Caltech, USA, for advanced study, conducting research work in the field of physical chemistry as a post-doctoral associate and visiting scholar. After his return home in 1987, he continued his research at the CAS Institute of Chemistry. From 1991 to 1992, he was a visiting professor at Tohoku University in Japan.

His research areas involve the structure and properties of polymer catalysts, X-ray crystallography of organic compounds, molecular mechanics and EXAFS research on electro-conducting polymers. In the mid-1980s, he shifted his research orientation to the field of scanning tunnelling microscopy, and molecular nanotechnology.

Dr. Bai has a long list of scientific publications and has won over twenty prestigious awards and prizes for his academic achievements. Because of his meritorious service, he was elected as a member of CAS and a fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) in 1997. He is also a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, as well as received honorary doctorates or professorships from several universities abroad. Dr. Bai now serves as the chief scientist for the National Steering Committee for Nanoscience and Technology and Director of China National Center for Nano Science and Technology.

In his social activities, he is the president of Chinese Chemical Society, the Vice President of TWAS, a member of Bureau and Executive Committee of IUPAC. He is a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of JACS, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials and Chemical Physics Letters.