On June 8th of 2017, Professor Xinhe Bao was appointed the 10th President of University of Science and Technology of China.

Dr. Bao received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Fudan University in 1987 and then worked as a Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt in Frize-Haber institute of Max-Planck Society in Berlin/Germany.

Dr. Bao became a full Professor of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP, CAS) in China in 1995 and the group leader of Nano & Interface Catalysis at the State Key Laboratory of Catalysis later. He held the position of the director of the Department of Chemical Physics of USTC from 2003 to 2015, and was appointed the President of Shenyang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. He worked as the Executive Vice President of Fudan University from July 2015 to June 2017 until he came to USTC.

Dr. Bao is the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the member of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) and the fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). He is currently the Vice President of Chemistry Society of China and the President of Chinese Society of Catalysis. Bao is a co-editor-in-chief of Journal of Energy Chemistry (JEC, Elsevier). His name is listed in the editorial board or international advisory board of several international scientific journals, including Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Energy & Env. Sci., Chem. Sci., Surf. Sci. Report, ChemCatChem, ChemPhysChem, Surf. Sci. and etc.