EDUCATION• 1976–84 MA, DPhil Jesus College, Oxford UniversityEMPLOYMENT HISTORY • 1985–96 Lecturer, Exeter University• 1996–date Professor, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical TechnologyAWARDS AND HONOURS• OBE for services to international science and UK/China relations (2008)• ‘Friendship Prize’ of the State Council (2001)• ‘International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Award’ (2005) • State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs 60th Anniversary Medal of Merit (one of ten awardees) (2014)MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (2004)• Chartered Chemist (CChem) (1989)RESEARCH INTERESTS Functional layered solids, principally layered double hydroxides (hydrotalcite-like materials). PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND STANDING: PROMOTING INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION WITH CHINA• Expert on the EU Science and Technology Fellowship Programme (STF) China (2009–12)• Local coordinator for a joint project with partners at the University of Oxford and Siam Cement Public Company Limited (SCG) developing commercialization of UK research in China and Thailand(Sept. 2011–date)..PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND STANDING:OUTREACH ACTIVITIES IN CHINA• Co-organizer of “Understanding Science”, a café-scientifique style programme of monthly events where scientists talk about their work in a way which is accessible to non-specialists• Regular presentations (ca. 80 per year) of lecture demonstrations to students (from kindergarten to high school) to promote interest in chemistry• Running hands-on chemical practical sessions for students (from primary to high school) at major events like the China Science Festival and National Science and Technology Week and school science fairs• Running “Fun with Science”, a collaboration between the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Migrant Children's Foundation, taking practical chemistry into migrant schools