张效勇

Xiaoyong Zhang, Ph.D.

Title: Assistant Professor

E-mail: zhangxiaoyong@gbu.edu.cn

Personal homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zoLRDEEAAAAJ&hl=en

【Research Interest】

Multiscale simulations of the mechanisms and dynamics of reactions in solutions, catalysis, materials, and biological systems;

Reactive force field development and programming;

【Main Achievements】

Dr. Zhang has been awarded both the general and special grants from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and the youth fund of Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation. In the last five years, he has published 15 first- and corresponding-authored research articles in SCI journals including Nat. Commun., JACS Au, Chem. Sci. and J. Chem. Theory Comput., some of which have been highlighted by famous social medias, such as ACS wechat platform and XMOL. Meanwhile, Dr. Zhang is serving for the developments of the “free energy perturbation” module in QBICS, a general computational chemistry and biology software founded in China, and has also contributed to QoMMMa (a QM/MM program) and EVB-Tinker software.

【Education Background】

2008.09-2012.06, Jilin University, B.Sc.

2012.09-2015.07, Jilin University, M.Sc.

2017.10-2021.08, KU Leuven, Belgium, Ph.D.

【Work Experience】

2015.07-2017.09, Southern University of Science and Technology, Research Assistant

2021.12-2024.02, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory / Shenzhen Graduate School of Peking University, Postdoc

2024.02-Present, Great Bay University, Assistant Professor

【Selected Publications】

1. Xu, Y.,^# Liu, D.,^# Gao, F., Li, S., Zhang, X.,* Wang, L.*, Yang, D.,* JACS Au, 2024, 4, 164.

2. Liu, D.,^# Guo, X.,^# Zhou, S., Guo, L., Zhang, X.* The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2024, 89, 1241.

3. Zhang, X.,* Guo, X., Liu, D.*, Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2023, 384, 122266.

4. Hettich, C.;^# Zhang, X.,^# Kemper, D.; Zhao, R.; Zhou, S.; Lu, Y.; Gao, J.;* Zhang, J;* Liu, M.* JACS Au, 2023, 3, 1800–1819 (ACS Editors’ Choice).

5. Zhang, X.,* Lefebvre. P.-L, Harvey, J.* Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022, 24, 1120.

6. Xu X.,^# Feng H.,*^# Zhang, X.,^# Song L., Van Meervelt L., Van der Eycken J., Harvey J.N.,* Van der Eycken E.V.*, Organic Letter, 2022, 24, 1232.(Equal)

7. Zhang, X., Vázquez, S.A., Harvey, J.N.* Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2021, 17, 1277.

8. Song, L.^#, Zhang, X.,^# Tang, X., Van Meervelt, L., Van der Eycken, J., Harvey, J.N.,* Van der Eycken, E.V.* Chemical Science, 2020, 11, 11562. (Equal)

9. Yang, Y. ^#, Zhang, X.,^# Zhong, L-P., Lan, J., Li, X., Li, C-C., Chung, L.* Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 1850. (Equal)

10. Zhang, X., Harvey, J.N.* Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2019, 21, 14331.

11. Zhang, X., Chung, L.W.* Chemistry A European Journal, 2017, 23, 3623. (Featured as Back Cover)