DAI Zhihui

Distinguished Professor
Prof. Dai Zhihui, currently Vice President of Nanjing Tech University, a distinguished professor of national talents of the Ministry of Education, and a middle-aged leading talent of Scientific and Technological Innovation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China. Prof. Dai received her Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from Nanjing Normal University in 1994 and her Master’s Degree in Chemistry from Nanjing Normal University in 1999. In 2004, she obtained her Ph.D. Degree in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from Nanjing University.


Prof. Dai is mainly engaged in the research of photoelectric analytical chemistry and biosensing, and is in charge of many national and provincial projects, including the National Natural Science Fund for China for Distinguished Young Scholars Program, Key National Natural Science Foundation of China Program, General National Natural Science Foundation of China Program, and the Special Exploration Project of Jiangsu Frontier Leading Technology Basic Research. She was awarded the First Prize of Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education (third author), the “National Electrochemistry Youth Award” of the Chinese Chemical Society, and enjoys special allowance of the State Council. As the first or corresponding author, she has published more than 150 SCI papers in JACS, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., and Anal. Chem. and she has been awarded more than 20 invention patents in China. Prof. Dai has been selected by the New Century Excellent Talent in University Program, the “333 High-Level Talents Training Project” in Jiangsu Province, the “Six Talents Summit” in Jiangsu Province, and one of the Outstanding Young Backbone Teachers in Jiangsu Qinglan Project. She also serves as Director of the Academic Committee of Jiangsu Large-scale Scientific Instruments Open Laboratory, Executive Director of Jiangsu Association for Instrumental Analysis, Deputy Director of the Analytical Chemistry Committee of Jiangsu Society for Chemical and Chemical Engineering, member of Electrochemical Analysis Committee of Analytical Instrument Branch of China Instrument and Control Society, and the editorial board member of Scientia Sinica (Chimica), Acta Chimica Sinica, Chemistry, and so on.