Professional Activities:

Experience

Positions Held:

07/2005-present	Professor Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
07/2002–06/2005	Associate Professor, Department of Chemica l& Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
01/1998–06/2002	Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
08/1995 –12/1997	University, PA, USA
07/1990 –12/1992	Research Associate, Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
1985-1986	Lecturer, Dept. of Physics, The South China Univ. of Tech., Guangzhou, China

Others:

2005-Present	Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Bio-medical Engineering, University of Alberta
01/2012 – 06/2012	Visiting Professor, Dept. of Mech. Eng., the National University of Singapore
08/2011 – 01/2012	Visiting Professor, Dept. of Mater.Sci. & Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Cambridge, USA
2006– Present	Foreign Doctoral Advisor,Harbin Institute of Technology, China
2013	Professorship of 100- people program, Shanxi, China
1998– 2001	Natural ScienceEngineeringResearchCouncilofCanada–Industrial ResearchChair
2005	Visiting Scientist, Biophysics, Advance Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
2004	Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. of Mech. Eng., National University of Singapore

Editorial:

1. Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials
2. Member of editorial board of Tribology–Surface, Interfaces and Materials
3. Member of editorial board of Journal of Biosensors & Bioelectronics
4. Member of editorial board of Nano materials & Molecular Nanotechnology
5. Member of editorial board of International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Nanotechnology
6. Member of editorial board of International J. of Corrosion
7. Member of editorial board of The Open Corrosion Journal
8. Member of editorial board of ISRN Chemical Engineering
9. Member of editorialboard of InternationalJournal of NanoStudies & Technology (IJNST)
10. Member of editorial board of 机械工程学报 （J. Mechanical Engineering, English version）