He received his PhD. at Jilin University in 1993 and became a faculty member of the Key Lab for Molecular Spectroscopy and Molecular Structure at Jilin University. In 1995, he went to Changchun Institute of Physics of CAS for postdoctoral research, and he went to Hokkaido University as postdoctoral fellow supported by JSPS. Since the year of 2000, he has been promoted a full professor and in 2002 he was appointed to be a supervisor of postgraduate student.

His research areas focus on structure and functionalization of controllable self-assembly systems composed of organic-inorganic supramolecular complexes.

[Selected Publications]

1.  Yizhan Wang, Haolong Li, Che Wu, Yang Yang, Lei Shi, Lixin Wu,* “Chiral Heteropoly Blues and Controllable Switching of Achiral Polyoxometalate Clusters”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 4577–4581.
2. Yang Yang, Bin Wang, Yizhan Wang, Liang Yue, Wen Li,* Lixin Wu,* “A Photo-driven Polyoxometalate Complex Shuttle and Its Homogeneous Catalysis and Heterogeneous Separation”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 14500–14503.
3. Liang Yue, Hui Ai, Yang Yang, Weijian Lu, Lixin Wu,* “Chiral self-assembly and reversible light modulation of a polyoxometalate complex via host–guest recognition”, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 9770–9772, 2013.
4. Zhenfeng He, Bao Li, Hui Ai, Haolong, Li,* Lixin Wu,* “A processable hybrid supramolecular polymer formed by base pair modified polyoxometalate clusters”, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 8039–8041.
5. Jing Zhang, Wen Li, Che Wu, Bao Li, Jiao Zhang, Lixin Wu,* “Redox-Controlled Helical Self-Assembly of a Polyoxometalate Complex”, Chem. Eur. J., 2013, 19, 8129–8135.