学术报告厅

“文魁论坛”第五十三场报告会暨兰州大学110周年校庆化学学科系列学术报告第一百一十二七场——David Leigh教授

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应功能有机分子化学国家重点实验室邀请,英国曼彻斯特大学 David Leigh 教授来我校进行交流并做学术报告,欢迎感兴趣的师生参加。

报 告 人: David A. Leigh 教授    

报告题目: Making the Tiniest Machines  

报告时间: 20191108日(星期五)下午 15:00

报告地点: 逸夫科学馆报告厅

                                 

报告人简介

Professor David Leigh was born in 1963. In 2009, he was elected member of the National Academy Science of the UK and the Commonwealth (Fellow of Royal Society (London)). Professor Leigh is the Sir Samuel Hall Professor of Chemistry at the University of Manchester and a Royal Society Research Professor (2016-2026). In 2015, he was elected to Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Science, Humanities & Letters. He was selected as 1000 Talents‘Topnotch Talent’ Professor in 2017. He is an associate editor of Chemical Science, and a member of the international advisory board for Angew. Chem. and ACS Central Science. Professor Leigh received numerous awards including the Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Award (2004), the Wolfson prize for research and nanoscience and technology award (2005), the International Izatt-Christensen Macrocycle prize in chemistry (2007), Royal Society Tilden award (2010), and the Royal Society Pedler award (2014).  

Professor Leigh's research has focused on the use of new methods to construct mechanical interlocking structures such as catenanes, rotaxanes and knots, and applying them to molecular motors and molecular machines. He has published 14 papers in Nature and Science, 16 papers in PNAS/Nature Nano/Chem/Mater and more than one hundred papers in JACS, Angew. Chem., etc.

文魁论坛介绍

文魁论坛以黄文魁教授的名字命名。黄文魁教授是兰州大学化学学科发展的领航者之一,为兰州大学化学学科的发展做出了卓越贡献。为了传承和发扬黄文魁教授等老一辈化学家严谨的治学态度、百折不挠的工作作风和投身科学的奉献精神,促进化学化工学院和功能有机分子化学国家重点实验室的建设与发展,加强与国内、外高水平大学及研究院所的学术交流,拓宽视野,汲取灵感,激发创意,营造浓厚的学术氛围,学院隆重推出文魁论坛

文魁论坛作为我院的重要学术交流平台,将邀请国内外知名专家、知名校友来院以主题报告会和讲座等形式进行学术交流,为我院师生提供一个与学术名家面对面互动交流的机会,提升学院人才培养质量和科学研究的水平。