Prof. Renyi Zhang 

Texas A&M University  

9:30am, 20 Aug, 2015

LAPC Mutifunctional Auditorium

Bio:

Dr. Renyi Zhang is Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M University (TAMU). He received a Ph.D. from MIT (under Chemistry Nobel Laureate Mario J. Molina) and conducted postdoctoral work at Caltech/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Currently, he is Harold J. Haynes Endowed Chair and University Distinguished Professor at TAMU. His early research contributed to the understanding of stratospheric ozone depletion and formation of the “Antarctic Ozone Hole”. His research at TAMU has led to important discoveries in photochemical oxidation of hydrocarbons; formation, growth, and properties of aerosols; urban and regional air pollution; ambient measurements of trace gases and aerosols; and assessment of aerosol-cloud-climate interaction and the impacts of human activities on the environment, weather, and climate. He has published more than 180 papers in peer-refereed journals with an h-index of 52 (Web of Science), including three in Science, two in Chemical reviews, one in Nature Climate Change, one in Nature Geoscience, one in Nature Communications, six Journal of the American Chemical Society, and nine in Proceedings of National Academy of Science USA. Dr. Zhang is an editor for the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, a senior editor for Oxford Research Encyclopedia - Environmental Science, Oxford University Press, and a former editor for Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres (2009-2013). He is a member of the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution and chaired the American Meteorological Society’s Atmospheric Chemistry Committee (2010-2014). He has received several awards, including honorary professorships at Peking University and Fudan University, the Outstanding International Collaboration Researcher Award from the China National Science Foundation, The Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award—Research at TAMU, the Bush Excellence Award for Faculty in International Research at TAMU, and the Cheung-Kong Distinguished Scholar Award from the Ministry of Education–China. He is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2012) and American Meteorological Society (2015). 

Prof. Renyi Zhang's webpage: http://atmo.tamu.edu/people/faculty/zhangrenyi.html