Personal profile: 

Prof. Ziyi Zhong received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Wuhan University and his Ph. D. from Nanjing University in China (1995). He did five years of postdoctoral research at Bar-Ilan University, the University of Washington at Seattle, and the National University of Singapore. In 2002, he was awarded a Visiting Fellowship from NRC Canada and worked at the National Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI) in Montreal, Canada. During the period of 02/2003-09/2018, he worked in the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES) under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore and also held an adjunct associate professorship in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore (2013-2017), and a part-time position in Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NEWRI) in NTU (20016-2018). He joined GTIIT as a full professor in Oct 2018.

Before joining GTIIT, he worked on many projects related to heterogeneous catalysis, material science, wastewater treatment, and pharmaceuticals, and some of the industrial projects were supported by companies such as Corning Inc (USA), Honeywell (U.S.), Mitsubishi Chemical Corp (Japan), MicroMil CarbonTech (Singapore) and Glaxo SmithKline plc (GSK), etc.

He has authored/co-authored over 245 international journal papers, 7 book chapters, and 5 granted patents (including 2 U.S. patents). Also, he contributed ca. 30 technical project reports for the industry. As of Oct 2022, his papers have been cited for 17000 times with an H factor of 69 (Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qjIBW-QAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN&oi=ao).

His research aims to address fundamental scientific issues/problems and develop practical applications, particularly for environmental remediation.