Awards
- 2017 Discipline Innovation and Intelligence Importation Project (the “111 Project”) – Innovation and Intelligence Importation Base for Electrical Materials and Equipment, Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of P. R. China, 2017
- NSTI Fellow Award, NSTI, 2006
- Royal Society/Kan Tong Po Professorship, University of Hong Kong, 2003
- Royal Society of Chemistry Medal for Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, 1999
External Positions
- International member, International advisory board of state key lab, State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment (Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2015 - 2020
- Overseas member, advisory committee, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Molecular Science, University of Queensland, 2014
- Editor in Chief, 1986 - Present. International Journal of Molecular Simulation (Founding Editor)
- Principal Investigator, 1997 - Present. Royal Society/FRD collaboration with the University of the North, South Africa
- External Examiner, 1999 - 2002. Chemistry, Hull University
- External Examiner, 1999 - 2002. Computational Chemistry MSc University of Surrey
- Consultant, 2002 - 2003. Unilever
- External Examiner, 2002 - 2006. Chemistry, University of Kent at Canterbury
- Visiting Fellow, 2002. ANU, Austrailia
- Advisory Board, 2003 - Present. Institute of Nanotechnology
- Visiting Fellow, 2004 - 2006. National Physical Laboratory
- Editor and Chair, 2005 - Present. Journal of Experimental Nanoscience (JEN) - (Founding Editor)
- External Examiner, 2005 - Present. Materials Science Masters, University of Hong Kong
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Fellow (FION), Institute of Nanotechnology
- Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
Links with Other Academic Bodies
- Vice President, University College Dublin
Industrial Connections
- BioVia
Fellowships
- Yangtze river, Xi'an University, PR China, 2013 - 2016
Editorial Boards
- Molecular Simulation, Editor in Chief
- Journal of Experimental Nanoscience, Member of editorial board