Zhang Tao (chemist)
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Zhang Tao (Chinese: 张涛; born 1963) is a Chinese chemist.
Zhang is a native of Shaanxi, born in 1963. Zhang earned a doctorate from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 1989 and pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Birmingham before returning to DICP in 1990, where he was appointed to a full professorship in 1995. Zhang headed DICP as director from 2007 to 2017.[1] In 2013, Zhang was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[2]
In 2024, he received the Future Science Prize for the development of single-atom catalysis.[3] He was selected in 2025 as a Clarivate Citation Laureate for Chemistry, as a possible candidate for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[4]
