Dr. Zhongfan Jia received his Ph.D. degree in polymer chemistry and physics from Fudan University, China, in 2007. He then took a postdoc position in the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and worked with Prof. Tom Davis, where he developed RAFT-generated polymers for bioconjugation and biomedical applications. In 2009, he was awarded the UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and moved to the University of Queensland, where he has been continuously collaborating with Prof. Michael Monteiro in the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN). In 2013, Zhongfan was awarded an ARC Future Fellow (2014-2017) and appointed as an Associate Group Leader in AIBN. In 2017, he was awarded an Advanced Queensland Industry Fellow (2018-2020). Before joining in Flinders University, Zhongfan was a Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of New England (2019).

Fellowships

• Advance Queensland Industry Fellow, Queensland Government and University of Queensland, 2017.
• Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, 2013.
• Trans-Pacific Fellow, University of Queensland, 2011.
• Postdoc Fellow, University of Queensland, 2008. 
  

Grants (selected)

• Australian Research Council Discovery Project - Folding polymers for high-performance energy storage, $389,349  2023 - 2026

• Australian Research Council Discovery Project - Unusual trisulfide chemistry, $405,186  2023 - 2026

• Australian Research Council LIEF Scheme - Materials for sustainability analysis facility, $620,000  2023

• Australian Research Council LIEF Scheme - Revitalizing facilities for nuclear magnetic resonance in South Australia" $1,240,000  2021