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Biography

Wan Huilin, male, Han nationality, is a native of Wuhan, Hubei province. He was born in 1938, and obtained a postgraduate degree from Xiamen University. Wan has taught at the university since 1996, and has focused his research on physical and chemical catalysis.

Following his participation in nitrogen fixation enzyme research in the early 1980s, Wan has published more than 180 research papers in periodicals both at home and abroad as well as 1 monograph, and he has won 6 patent rights for his inventions. His current areas of research include catalysis of active centers (or active species), dynamic structures and catalytic reaction mechanisms of catalyst and theoretical simulation of catalysis.

Wan Huilin was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Science in 1997.