Curved Polycyclic Arenes: From Molecules to Materials

Host: Asst Prof. Shingo Ito

Biography

Prof. Miao Qian graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a B.S. in 2000. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2005 under the direction of Prof. Colin Nuckolls and was a postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Fred Wudl at University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor in 2006, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012, and became a Full Professor in 2016. His research interests include design and synthesis of novel polycyclic aromatic molecules with interesting structures and useful applications; bottom-up approaches to precision synthesis of carbon nanomaterials; and development of high-performance organic semiconductor materials and devices using tools from organic synthesis, and supramolecular and surface chemistry. He is an Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Science, and received the Chemical Society of Japan Lectureship Award 2020, the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2019, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Research Excellence Award 2016-17.