Education And Academic Experience：
1991-1998: B. A., Southwest University, Theoretical physics
1998-2001: Ph. D., Sichuan University, Physical chemistry (with Prof. Jiuli Luo)
2002-2003: Postdoctoral Fellow, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany (with Prof. Ingo Müller)
2004-2007: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (with Prof. Masaru Sugiyama)
2008- : Professor, Sichuan University, College of chemistry
Honors and Awards：JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships (2004-2007)
Editorial/Advisory Board Memberships：Member of the Committee of Theoretical Chemistry (China)
Publications:
1. B. J. Zhang, T. Lei and N. R. Zhao*, Comparative study of polymer looping kinetics in passive and active environments, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 23, 12171 (2021).
2. F. Tan, Y. Chen and N. R. Zhao*, Effects of active crowder size and activity–crowding coupling on polymer translocation, Soft Matter 17, 1940 (2021).
3. B. J. Zhang, F. Tan and N. R. Zhao*, Polymer looping kinetics in active heterogeneous environments, Soft Matter 17, 10334 (2021).
4. F. E. Feng, T. Lei and N. R. Zhao*, Tunable depletion force in active and crowded environments, Phys. Rev. E 103, 022604 (2021).
5. A. P. Chen, B. J. Zhang and N. R. Zhao*, A comparative study of semi-flexible linear and ring polymer conformational change in an anisotropic environment, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 22, 9137 (2020).
6. B. J. Zhang, R. Yan, and N. R. Zhao*, Dynamics and glass transition temperature of polystyrene films supported on hydroxyl terminated substrates, AIP Advances 10, 045322 (2020).
7. X. L. Cao, B. J. Zhang and N. R. Zhao*, Effective temperature scaled dynamics of a flexible polymer in an active bath. Mol. Phys. e1730992 (2020).
8. X. L. Cao, B. J. Zhang and N. R. Zhao*, Contrastive factors of activity and crowding on conformational properties of a flexible polymer, Chem. Phys. Lett. 745, 137213 (2020).
9. C. L. Yuan, A. P. Chen, B. J. Zhang and N. R. Zhao*, Activity-crowding coupling effect on diffusion dynamics of a self-propelled particle in polymer solutions,Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 24112 (2019).
10. X. L. Cao, B. J. Zhang and N. R. Zhao*, Crowding-Activity Coupling Effect on Conformational Change of a Semi-Flexible Polymer, Polymers 11, 1021 (2019).
11. Y. K. Bian, R. Yan, P. Li and N. R. Zhao*, Unusual crowding-induced chain looping kinetics in hard-sphere fluids: a contrastive study with polymer solutions, Soft Matter15, 4976 (2019).
12. A. P. Chen and N. R. Zhao*, Comparative study of the crowding-induced collapse effect in hard-sphere, flexible polymer and rod-like polymer systems, Phy. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 12335 (2019).
13. Y. K. Bian, X. L. Cao, P. Li and N. R. Zhao*, Understanding chain looping kinetics in polymer solutions: crowding effects of microviscosity and collapse, Soft Matter 14, 8060 (2018).
14. B. J. Zhang, X. L. Cao, G. Zhou* and N. R. Zhao*, Anomalous diffusion of polystyrene from an attractive substrate based on all-atom simulation, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 20, 25304 (2018).
15. J. Qing, A. P. Chen and N. R. Zhao*, Quantifying the protein–protein association rate in polymer solutions: crowding-induced diffusion and energy modifications, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 20, 27937 (2018).
16. A. P. Chen, N. R. Zhao* and Z. H. Hou*, The effect of hydrodynamic interactions on nanoparticle diffusion in polymer solutions: a multiparticle collision dynamics study, Soft Matter 13, 8625 (2017).
17. J. Wang, Y. K. Bian, X. L. Cao and N. R. Zhao*, Understanding diffusion of intrinsically disordered proteins in polymer solutions: A disorder plus collapse model, AIP Advances 7, 115120 (2017).
18. J. Qing, A. P. Chen and N. R. Zhao*, A new scaling for the rotational diffusion of molecular probes in polymer solutions, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19, 32687 (2017).
19. X. Q. Feng, A. P. Chen, J. Wang, N. R. Zhao* and Z. H. Hou*, Understanding protein diffusion in polymer solutions: a hydration with depletion model, J. Phys. Chem. B 120, 10114 (2016).
20. Y. H. Dong, X. Q. Feng, N. R. Zhao* and Z. H. Hou*, Diffusion of nanoparticles in semidilute polymer solutions: A mode-coupling theory study, J. Chem.Phys. 143, 024903 (2015).
21. Y. K. Bian, Z. L. Wang, A. P. Chen and N. R. Zhao*, Fluctuating bottleneck model studies on kinetics of DNA escape from α-hemolysin nanopores, J. Chem. Phys. 143, 184908 (2015).
22. P. Li, Y. H. Dong, N. R. Zhao* and Z. H. Hou*, Distance fluctuation of a single molecule in Lennard-Jones liquid based on generalized Langevin equation and mode coupling theory, J. Chem. Phys. 140, 154109 (2014).
23. Y. Zheng, Y. K. Bian, N. R. Zhao* and Z. H. Hou*, Stretching of single poly-ubiquitin molecules revisited: Dynamic disorder in the nonexponential unfolding kinetics, J. Chem. Phys. 140, 125102 (2014).
24. Y. Zheng, P. Li, N. R. Zhao* and Z. H. Hou*, Kinetics of molecular transitions with dynamic disorder in single-molecule pulling experiments, J. Chem. Phys.138, 204102 (2013).
