Zhu Lizhong


Zhu Lizhong is a Chinese environmental engineer who is a professor at Zhejiang University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography

Zhu was born in Shangyu County, Zhejiang, on 19 October 1959. He secondary studied at Lihai High School and Chunhui High School. In 1978, he was admitted to Hangzhou University, majoring in chemistry.
He joined the Chinese Communist Party in April 1985. In September 1990, he went to study at the University of British Columbia in Canada. In September 1996, he was hired by the University of Shizuoka as a guest professor. In December 2000, he became a visiting scholar at the United States Geological Survey, a position in which he remained until March 2001. He was honored as a Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2001. In 2006, he joined the faculty of Zhejiang University.

Honors and awards