Zhihong Nie (聂志鸿)

Professional Appointments

• Distinguished Professor (2019/1 - Present)
  State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers
  Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, China
• Tenured Associate Professor (2017/8- 2018/12)
  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland College Park 
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland College Park 
  Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland College Park 
  
• Tenure-track Assistant Professor (2011/1-2017/7)
  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland College Park    
  
  

• Soft Matter (RSC)

• Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania (December 5, 2017)  
• Symposium on “Responsive, Programmable Assembly of Active Colloids for Functional Materials”, ACS 254th National Meeting, Washington, DC (August 20-24, 2017)
• Korea-China Bilateral Symposium on Polymer Materials 2017, Xi’an, China (August 13-17, 2017)
• Keynote talk at the 7th International Conference for Colloids and Interfaces, Barcelona (Sitges), Spain (June 18-21, 2017). 
• Symposium on “Diagnostics & Bio Imaging”, Nanotech 2017 Conference, Washington, DC (May 14-17, 2017)      
• ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry Symposium in honor of Nicholas A. Kotov, ACS 253th National Meeting, San Francisco, CA (April 2-6, 2017)
• ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering Leadership Awards Symposium in honor of Jinlong Gong, ACS 253th National Meeting, San Francisco, CA (April 2-6, 2017)
• Symposium on “Janus Particles: Synthesis, Characterization & Applications”, ACS 253th National Meeting, San Francisco, CA (April 2-6, 2017)
• ICMIC Seminar, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (January 18, 2017)
• Symposium on “Stimuli Responsive Organic and Inorganic Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications and Biosafety”, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts (November 27-December 2, 2016).
• Symposium on “Spatiotemporally and Morphologically-Controlled Biomaterials for Medical Applications”, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts (November 27-December 2, 2016)
• Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso (October 7, 2016)
• Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA (September 29, 2016)
• Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, PA (September 27, 2016)
• Nano Korea 2016 symposium, Seoul, KINTEX (July 13-15, 2016)
• Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University (April 6, 2016)
• Mid-Atlantic Micro/Nano Alliance (MAMNA), Material Advantage: Pioneering devices enabled by material breakthroughs, The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Kossiakoff Center, Laurel, Maryland, March 25th, 2016
• Department of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (March 30, 2016)
• Symposium on “Nanometal” in the COLL Division of the ACS 2016 Spring Meeting at San Diego (March 13-17, 2016)
• Department of Chemistry/Department of Chemical Engineering, UIUC (November 6, 2015)
• Department of Chemistry, Duke University (November 4, 2015)
• Department of Chemistry, Rice University (October 28, 2015)
• Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida (October 15, 2015)
• Department of Chemistry, University of Florida (October 6, 2015)
• Department of Chemistry, Florida State University (October 5, 2015)
• Maryland Microsystems Initiative, University of Maryland (October 1, 2015)
• Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology (Sept 29, 2015)
• Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University (Sept 21, 2015)
• Department of Chemistry, University of Arkansas (Sept 28, 2015)
• Plenary Talk at the 15thMid-Atlantic Soft Matter Workshop, University of Maryland, College Park (July 29, 2015)
• The 8th Frontier at the Chemistry-Biology Interface Symposium, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (May 16, 2015)
• Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington (March 31, 2015)
• Symposium on "Stimulus-Responsive Assemblies and Materials", 249th ACS Meeting in Denver (March, 2015)
• Symposium on "Functionalization of Complex Nanosurfaces", 249th ACS Meeting in Denver (March, 2015)
• Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore (February 19, 2015)
• Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China (December 22, 2014)
• Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (October 1, 2014)
• The Center for Nanomedicine at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (September 17, 2014)
• Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park (August 28, 2014)
• Plenary talk at Maryland NanoDay, University of Maryland, College Park ( June 11, 2014)
• Department of Chemistry, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA (March 7, 2014)
• PMSE: Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, ACS 246th National Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana (September 8-12, 2013)
• Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (June 4, 2014)
• Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA (September 4, 2013)
• 2013 KAIST (Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology)-UMD symposium, Busan, South Korea (July 7-11, 2013)
• The 8th Sino-US Nano Forum, Hangzhou, China (June 28-July 1, 2013)
• International Polymer Colloid Group (IPCG) Research Conference, Shanghai, China (June 2013, co-organized by BASF). (This Conference started in 1977 as a Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and later followed the traditions of a GRC).
• Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park (March, 2013)
• Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore (January, 2013)
• DuPont Central Research and Development, Wilmington, DE (December 4, 2012).
• Department of Material Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (October, 2012)
• Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park (October, 2012)
• Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park (September 2012)
• ACS Colloids & Surface Symposium, Baltimore, MD (June, 2012)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (May 2012)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST), Center for neutron research (March, 2012)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Biochemical science division (January, 2012)
• Department of Chemistry, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS (December, 2011)
• International workshop on construction with nanoscale building blocks, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey (May 2011)
• Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (February, 2010)
• Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University at Newark Newark, NJ (February, 2010)
• Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland College Park (February, 2010)
• Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE (January, 2010)
• Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida Tampa, FL (January, 2010)
• Nanotechnology Center, University of Waterloo, Canada (January, 2010)
• Department of Chemistry, Brown University Providence, RI (December, 2009)
• Department Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University Evanston, IL (December, 2009)
• Department of Chemistry, Indiana University at Bloomington Bloomington, IN (September, 2009)
• College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron Akron, OH (November, 2009)