Academician Roland A. Fischer from Technische Universität München, invited by Prof. FANG Zhenlan, visited Nanjing Tech University and delivered an academic lecture for IAM Sparkling Lecture on 25th November, 2019. The seminar was held by Prof. QIN Weiming, Deputy Director of Human Resources Department in NJTech. Vice President LIN Xiang, Institute secretary of the Party community SUI Guorong, representatives of teachers and students from Institute of Advanced Materials attended the activity in C501, Science and Innovation Building.

Vice President Ling Xiang presented Prof. Roland A. Fischer with the Appointment Letter of Honorary Professor, and expressed warm welcome and heartfelt thanks to him for joining our university. Prof. Fischer deeply honored to be an honorary professor and looked forward to taking this opportunity to strengthen long-term cooperation between the two sides. After the appointment ceremony, Prof. Fischer delivered an academic report, entitled "Integration of Metal-Organic Frameworks to Devices: SURMOF-Derived Electrocatalysts for Water-Splitting and Fuel Cell Applications", and be awarded the IAM Sparkling Lecture Certificate.

As reperted, Prof. Roland Fischer holds the Chair of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry at the Technical University Munich (TUM) and is Director of the TUM Catalysis Research Centre. Previously he was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Ruhr-University Bochum (1997-2015) and Heidelberg University (1996-1997). He has been elected Vice President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in 2016. He is a member of the Award Selection Committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Chemical Industry Fund and an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences. His research interest focuses on functional molecular materials for advanced applications in energy conversion, catalysis, gas storage and separation, chemical sensing, photonics and microelectronics. Currently, he is steering the DFG Priority Program 1928 "Coordination Networks: Building Blocks for Functional Systems”.