According to the official website of the Ministry of Education on December 13, Zhang Xi was appointed as the president of Jilin University, and the former president Li Yuanyuan was transferred to the president of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in November.

Zhang Xi is an academic cadre who was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the age of 42.

According to public information, Zhang Xi was born in December 1965 in Changsha, Hunan.He is also an alumnus of Jilin University. He entered the Department of Chemistry of Jilin University in September 1982 and obtained a Bachelor of Science in Analytical Chemistry and a Master of Science in Polymer Chemistry and Physics.

Afterwards, he went to Germany to study. In December 1992, Zhang Xi, who received a doctorate in polymer chemistry and physics, returned to his alma mater, Jilin University, to teach, serving as a lecturer, professor, and doctoral supervisor.

In 2004, Zhang Xijin entered Beijing to work in the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University. In 2008, he became the dean of the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University. In 2013, he became the dean of the School of Science of Tsinghua University.

In February this year, Zhang Xi was appointed as the deputy director of the Eighth National Natural Science Foundation of China, and he took up the post again 10 months later.This is also the first time he has returned to his alma mater, Jilin University, after 14 years.

As an academic cadre, in 1999, Zhang Xi, who was only 34 years old, was hired as a special professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education; in 2007, 42-year-old Zhang Xi was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which belongs to the Ministry of Chemistry.

He has also won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, the China Youth Science and Technology Award, the Chinese Chemical Society-Akzo Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Science and Technology Progress Award and many other honors.

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Zhang Xi, male, Han nationality, born in 1965, is from Changsha, Hunan.Professor, Doctor of Science.

In September 1982, Zhang Xi entered the Department of Chemistry of Jilin University to study and obtained a Bachelor of Science in Analytical Chemistry and a Master of Science in Polymer Chemistry and Physics.

In September 1989, as a doctoral student jointly trained by the Department of Chemistry of Jilin University and the Institute of Organic Chemistry of Mainz University, Germany, under the tutelage of Academician Shen Jiacong and Professor H.Ringsdorf.

In August 1991, went to the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Mainz, Germany to study (-November 1992).

In December 1992, after obtaining a doctorate degree in polymer chemistry and physics, he stayed at Jilin University to teach, successively serving as a lecturer, professor, and doctoral supervisor.

In January 1993, he entered the State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials and followed Academician Zou Guangtian for postdoctoral work.

In 1994, he was selected into the Excellent Cross-Century Talent Program of the former State Education Commission.In the same year, he was awarded the Huo Yingdong Youth Fund.

In May 1997, he served as the director of the State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials.In the same year, he received funding from the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars.In the same year, he was selected into the Talent Project of the Ministry of Personnel of the People's Republic of China.

In March 1999, he was employed as a Distinguished Professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education.

In 2004, he entered the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University as a professor and doctoral supervisor.

In 2007, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, affiliated to the Department of Chemistry.

In 2008, he served as the dean of the Chemistry Department of Tsinghua University.

In June 2011, he was rated as an outstanding Communist Party member in Beijing and an outstanding Communist Party member in Beijing universities.In the same year, he became the academic leader of the innovative research group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

In 2013, he served as Dean of the School of Science, Tsinghua University.

In July 2014, he served as the director of the Chemistry Department of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (-March 2018).In December, he served as the director of the Academic Committee of Tsinghua University.

On October 21, 2016, won the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award.In the same year, he was elected as a fellow of the American Chemical Society.

In February 2018, he was appointed as the deputy director of the Eighth National Natural Science Foundation of China.

In December 2018, he was appointed as the president of Jilin University.