Professor, vice chairman of the university board of Nanjing University, member of the science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of education, vice president of Jiangsu chemistry and chemical society, director of the organic chemistry professional committee, vice president of Jiangsu engineer society, member of the organic chemistry Professional Committee of the Chinese chemical society, and director of the high tech Research Institute of South University of Ma'anshan. Former vice president of Nanjing university.

Postdoc from 1989 to 1992 at Imperial College, UK. Associate Professor from 1993 to 1998. Professor of chemistry at Nanjing University since 1998. Dean of School of chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Nanjing University from 2001 to 2006. Vice President of Nanjing University from 2006 to 2017. Director of National 863 Program New Material MO Precursors R&D Center since 1997. Vice Chairman of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Society of Jiangsu Province since 2002.Vice Chairman of Jiangsu Engineering Society since 2015.

Organometallic chemistry, high-purity organmetallic procursors for semiconductor materials, organic reaction mathodology.