Professor of Chemistry and Cell Biology
School of Science
School of Life Sciences
Westlake Laboratory
Westlake University
Email: zhangxin@westlake.edu.cn
Position
2021-present Professor of Chemistry and Cell Biology
School of Science, School of Life Sciences, Westlake Laboratory, Westlake University
2020-2021 Associate Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2015-2020 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Paul Berg Early Career Professor in the Eberly College of Science
Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Huck Institute of
Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University
Educational Background
2010, Ph.D. (Chemistry), California Institute of Technology, Prof. Shu-ou Shan
2004, M.S. (Chemical Physics), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Prof. Ke-Li Han
2001, B.S. (Chemical Physics), University of Science and Technology of China
Postdoctoral Training
2010-2015 Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Prof. Jeffery W. Kelly
Honors and Awards
2021 Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, USA
2021 The Priestley Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching in Chemistry
2020 CAPA Distinguished Junior Faculty Award
2020 NSF CAREER Award
2019 Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA), NIH-NIGMS
2019 PEW Biomedical Scholar
2018 The Scialog Fellow
2018 Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry
2015 The Lloyd and Dottie Huck Early Career Award
2014 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface
2012 ACS National Award – Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry
2011 Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
2011 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (declined)
2010 Springer Thesis Award
2010 Herbert Newby McCoy Award of Caltech
2009 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad
2006 The Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Endowment Fellowship