Dr. Zhao is now a Post-Doc researcher in KAUST from 2009. Dr. Zhao was award BE in applied chemistry in 2004 and PhD in organic chemistry in 2009 both from Jilin University, China. Dr. Zhao has published 20 research articles in international refereed journals, inclouding 1 in Adv Mater, 2 in Chem Mater, 1 in  Langmuir and 1 in Nano Research as first author. These articles have been cited over 150 times.