Chair, Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry, American Meteorological Society, 2011 – present
Member, International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (ICACGP), 2010 - present
Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 2009 - present
Director, Center for Atmospheric Chemistry and Environment, Texas A&M University, 2007 - present
Professor, Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Texas A&M University, 2007 - present
Tepin Professorship, Fudan University, China, 2006 - present
Adjunct Professor, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China, 2006 – present
Professor, Department o f Atmospheric Sciences, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University, 2005 – present
Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University, 2002 - 2005
Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University, 1997 - 2002
Research Associate, 1996-1997, Department of Chemistry and Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT
Post Doctoral Research Associate, 1993-1996, Chemical Kinetics and Photochemistry Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Honors

University-Level Distinguished Achievement Award – Research, Texas A&M University and The Association of Former Students, 2012
Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2012
Holder of Harold J. Haynes Endowed Chair in Geosciences, Texas A&M University, 2010
Cheung-Kong Distinguished Scholar Award, Ministry of Education - China, 2009
Bush Excellence Award for Faculty in International Research, Texas A&M University, 2009
Outstanding International Collaboration Research Award, China National Science Foundation, 2007
Distinguished Achievement Award for Faculty Research, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University, 2002
NASA New Investigator Program Award, 1999 - 2002
Invited speaker in Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESS), Harvard University, 1993
NASA Graduate Fellowship, 1990 - 1993

Society Memberships

American Chemical Society (ACS)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Meteorological Society (AMS)
Member, International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (ICACGP), 2010 - present
Member, AMS Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry, 2007 – present; co-chair, 2009 - present

Professional Interests

Analytical/physical/environmental/atmospheric chemistry. Kinetics and mechanisms of gas-phase and heterogeneous reactions. Laboratory studies of formation, growth, and chemical and physical properties of atmospheric aerosols. Atmospheric measurements of trace gas species and aerosols. Modeling of photochemistry and urban and regional air pollution. Assessment of aerosol-cloud-climate interaction. Establishment of Megacity Integrated Climate and Air Quality Sustainability Alliance (MICASA)

Patents

"Ion Drift - Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry”, US Patent NO. 7,375,317, May 20, 2008.

RECENT INVITED PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES, AND SESSIONS CHAIRED

Session Chair, Sino-European Symposium on Environment and Health, National University of Ireland - Galway, Ireland, August, 2012
Invited speaker, AOGS – AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly, Singapore, August, 2012
Invited seminar speaker, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Singapore, August, 2012
Invited seminar speaker, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, July, 2012
Invited seminar speaker, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China, July, 2012
Invited speaker, CLOUD‐ITN Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, May, 2012
Invited seminar speaker, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, February, 2012
Chair, 15th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, American Meteorological Society, New Orleans, LA, January, 2012
Chair, Fourth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions, American Meteorological Society, New Orleans, LA, January, 2012
AGU Fall Meeting Seminar “A Good Scientific Paper: 101”, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2011 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiHyMh0U6rA&feature=youtu.be/)
Invited seminar speaker, Department of Chemistry, Texas Tech University, November 2011
Chair, 2011 International Year of Chemistry (IYC) Symposium on Stratospheric Ozone and Climate Change, Washington, DC, November 7–10, 2011 (http://2011-iyc-o3.org/)
Co-chair, oversea distinguished experts session, 6th National Conference on Environmental Chemistry, Shanghai, China, September, 2011
Invited speaker, Session of Air-Surface Interactions: Chemistry from Molecular to Global Climate Scales, 242nd ACS National Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, July 2011
Invited seminar speaker, Division of Atmospheric Science & Global Change, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, April 2011
AGU Fall Meeting Seminar “A Good Scientific Paper: 101”, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2010
Invited seminar speaker, the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center, University of California - Berkeley, November 2010
Chair, Symposium “Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality in Texas: Challenges and Opportunities”, Annenberg Presidential Center, Texas A&M University, April, 2010
Invited presentation, the changing climate and environment in CHINA, Workshop for the Fulbright-Hays China Seminar, College Station, TX, April, 2010
Session Chair, Aerosol, Cloud, and Climate, Joint Meeting between the 2nd Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions and the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, AMS Meeting, Atlanta, GA, February 2010
Session Chair, Study of Houston Atmospheric Radical Precursors (SHARP), 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, AMS Meeting, Atlanta, GA, February 2010
Invited presentation, special session on Aerosols and Climate in Asia, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2009
Invited presentation, special symposium on Atmospheric Aerosol Nucleation and Growth: Molecular Clusters to Nanoparticles and Climate, AAAR annual meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2009
Invited presentation, session on Characterization of Air Pollution and Its Interactions With Weather and Climate in East Asia before, during, and after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, AGU Spring Meeting/Joint Assembly, Toronto, CANADA, May 2008
Invited presentation, session on Chemical Transformations of Organic Compounds in Aerosol and Clouds: Organosulfates and Oligomerization, the AGU Spring Meeting/Joint Assembly, Toronto, CANADA, May 2008
Invited speaker, the 11th International Conference on Atmospheric Science and Applications to Air Quality, Jinan, China, April, 2009
Session chair, Urban and local scale air quality modeling, the 11th International Conference on Atmospheric Science and Applications to Air Quality, Jinan, China, April, 2009
Invited seminar speaker, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, April, 2009
Session chair, Aerosol, climate, and biogeochemical cycles, 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, AMS Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, January, 2009.
Session Chair, Impact of aerosols on convection and weather, AMS Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, January, 2009
Invited keynote speaker, Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions, AMS Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, January, 2009
Invited seminar speaker, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, November, 2008
Invited seminar speaker, Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, Guangzhou, China, November, 2008
Invited seminar speaker, Division of Atmospheric Chemistry, National Center for Atmospheric Research, October 2008
Invited colloquium speaker, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, September 2008
Invited seminar speaker, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, August 2008
Invited lecturer, Spring School for Atmospheric Chemistry of 2008, Shanghai, China, April, 2008
Session chair, Air quality and climate change, 10th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, AMS Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 2008
Invited presentation, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2007
Invited monthly seminar speaker, Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, October 2007
Invited seminar speaker, Department of Chemical Environment, Louisiana State University, September 2007
Invited seminar speaker, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, August 2007
Invited seminar speaker, College of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, July 2007
Session chair, Megacities air pollution: Urban, regional, and global Impacts (gases), AGU Spring Meeting, Acapulco, Mexico, May 2007
Invited seminar speaker, Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, April 2007
Invited seminar speaker, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, February 2007
Invited seminar speaker, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Fudan University, December 2006
Invited seminar speaker, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, December 2006
Invited seminar speaker, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, December 2006
Invited seminar speaker, Hunan Province Bureau of Meteorology, December 2006
Invited lecturer, International Conference on Atmospheric Chemical Mechanisms, Davis, CA, December 2006
Invited speaker, Workshop on Biogenic Hydrocarbons: Emissions, Aerosol Formation, and Climate Impacts, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, October 2006
Invited lecturer, 62nd American Chemical Society SWRM Meeting on Modern Trends in Atmospheric Chemistry, Houston, TX, October 2006
Invited lecturer, Workshop on the Formation and Growth of Atmospheric Aerosols, Minneapolis, MN, September 2006
Organizer, Atmospheric Chemistry Workshop on Climate Changes with Greenhouse and Aerosols, Telluride Science Research Conference (TSRC), Telluride, CO, August 2006 (with J.W. Elkins of NOAA)
Invited seminar speaker, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT, November 2005
Invited seminar speaker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, November 2005
Invited seminar speaker, Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, November 2005
Invited seminar speaker, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, August 2005
Invited speaker, Atmospheric Aerosol Workshop, Helsinki, Finland, August 2005
Invited seminar speaker, Department of Environmental Sciences, Fudan University, August 2005
Invited seminar speaker, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, August 2005
Invited speaker, Atmospheric Chemistry Workshop, Telluride Science Research Conference (TSRC), Telluride, CO, August 2004
Invited speaker, 21st International Conference on Photochemistry, Japan, July 2003
Convener, Atmospheric impacts of urban air pollution, Spring AGU Meeting, Washington, DC, May 2002
Invited seminar speaker, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT, November 2001
Convener, Kinetics and mechanism of hydrocarbon reactions, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2000
Invited Speaker, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, November 1999
Convener, Lightning and atmospheric chemistry, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 1999

SELECTED PRESS RELEASES, NEWS STORYS, TV/RADIO INTERVIEWS

A news story “David Blaine's Electrical Stunt Could Create Harmful Ozone”, Scientific American, October 15, 2012
A news story “Four-day Symposium on Stratospheric Ozone and Climate Change”, United Nations Environment Programme, November, 2011
A news story “American Chemical Society President speaks at 2011 Symposium on Stratospheric Ozone and Climate Change”, American Chemical Society, November, 2011
A news story “Symposium features efforts for clean air”, The Eagle – Byran/College Station, TX, November, 2011
A news story “Students, faculty address climate issues with politicians in D.C.”, The Battalion, November, 2011
TAMU Press Release “Research Is Getting Closer To Understanding Critical Nucleus in Haze Formation” , June 14, 2010
A news story “Houston may hurt area's air quality” in the Eagle/Bryan-College Station, April 25, 2010
TAMU Press Release “Earth Day Symposium To Address Texas Air Quality”, April 21, 2010
TAMU Press Release “Atmospheric Nanoparticles Impact Health, Weather Prof Says”, March 1, 2010
TAMU Press Release “Man-Made Activities Affect Blue Haze”, October 2009
TAMU main web site “Faculty Focus”, May 2009
AGU journal highlight "Airborne acid may help soot turn into cloud seeds", March 25, 2009
Participation in filming and interview for a documentary on lightning for the Discovery Channel, November, 2008
A news story “A&M studies Beijing's air” in The Eagle/Bryan-College Station (front page), August 16, 2008
TAMU Press Release “Researcher studying Beijing air quality”, August 12, 2008
An article “Acid soot' worsens smog”, Chemistry World, Royal Society Chemistry, Cambridge, V 5(9), p. 11, September, 2008
A news story “Scientists find soot has an even darker side” in Houston Chronicle (front page), July 28, 2009
TAMU Press Release “Soot Problems Affecting World’s Weather, Health”, July, 2008
An article “Blowing in the wind” in Discovery, pp. 38-39, June 2007
A news story “Huge dust plumes from China cause changes in climate” in the Wall Street Journal, June 20, 2007
An article “Asian pollution affects our weather” in L.A. Times (front page), March 6, 2007
An article “Clouds, Made in China” in ScienceNOW Daily News, March 6, 2007
An article “Another Asian export: Stronger Pacific storms” in Scientific American, March 5, 2007
An article “Scientists say Asia’s soot causing weather imbalance” in Houston Chronicle, March 6, 2007
An article “Asia pollution changing world's weather, Scientists say” in National Geographic News
A news story “Global impact of Asia’s Pollution” on BBC News, March 6, 2007
An article “Pollution tied to big rainstorms” in San Francisco Chronicle, March 6, 2007
A news story “Asian Pollution affect Pacific storms” in USA Today, Fox News, ABC News, CBS News, and others, March 7, 2007
An article “India, China polluting US weather” in Hindustan Times, India, March 7, 2007
A news story “Pollution in Asia triggers intense Pacific storms” by Xinhua News Agency, China, March 6, 2007
An article “Asia smog fuelling Pacific storms 'will melt Arctic ice'” in Guardian, March 6, 2007
An article “Is Asia’s bad air stirring storms in West?” in Seattle Times, March 6, 2007
An article “China’s dirty air threatens darker days for Northwest” in Oregonian, March 6, 2007
A news story “Asian pollution affects weather over Pacific” on Voice of America (VOA), March 15, 2007
Interview on the effects of Asian pollution with NBC Nightly News, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), KCBS (San Francisco), NPR, and others, March 2007
TAMU Press Release “Study Proves Pollution from China And India Affecting World's Weather”, March 2007
A highlight article “Atmosphere, a chemical reactor - Formation pathways of secondary organic aerosols” featured by Angewandte Chemie-International Edition (2006 Impact Factor of 10.232), V. 44, pp. 1444-1446, February 25, 2005
A news article “Car and coal emissions interact” featured in Chemical & Engineering News, V82, p. 10, June 7, 2004
A news article “Aerosol story gets new angle” featured in Chemistry World (Royal Society of Chemistry), V1, No. 7, July 2004
A news article “Aerosols form in a cocktail of smoke and fumes” in issue 2451 of the New Scientist Magazine, p. 17, June 12, 2004
An article “Research finds city’s air cleaner at night” in Houston Chronicle, April 13, 2003
A news story “Sun deemed variable in ozone levels” in New York Times, L.A. Times, and others, April 13, 2004
Interview with National Geographic for a television series on lightning and chemistry, May 2003
A WTOP News Story (a Washington D.C. based CBS affiliated radio station), May 2003
A documentary video produced by NASA TV, March 2003
Nowcast “Lightning has big effect on atmospheric chemistry” in the Bulletin of American Meteorological Society (BAMS), V. 84, pp. 744-745, June 2007
NASA Press Release “Surprise! Lightning has big effect on atmospheric chemistry”, March 2003
An Osgood File story with the CBS Radio Network, June 2002
News Scan “Bright sky, dirty city?”, Scientific American, p. 19, May 2001

Statistics of Renyi Zhang’s Publications

Journal (Impact Factor) (# of Published Papers)

Science (28.103) (3)
Proceedings of National Academy of Science (9.380) (5)
Nature Geoscience (8.100) (1)
Journal of the American Chemical Society (8.091) (5)
Analytical Chemistry (5.712) (2)
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (4.927) (11)
Environmental Science & Technology (4.458) (5)
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (4.064) (2)
Journal of Chemical Physics (3.149) (7)
Journal of Geophysical Research (3.147) (26)
Advances in Quantum Chemistry (3.000) (1)
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (2.989) (1)
Geophysical Research Letters (2.959) (10)
Atmospheric Environment (2.890) (6)
Journal of Physical Chemistry (2.871) (22)
Aerosol Science & Technology (2.606) (1)
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry (2.445) (1)
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology (2.362) (1)
Tellus (2.356) (1)
Environmental Chemistry (2.317) (1)
Chemical Physics Letters (2.169) (9)
Journal of Applied Meteorology (1.888) (2)
Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry (1.478) (1)
Review of Scientific Instruments (1.738) (1)
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (0.679) (2)

* 2008 Impact factor from Thomson Scientific (ISI) Journal Citation Reports.