Prof. Guozhong He was born in Nanhai, Guangdong Province, on May 5, 1933.In 1951, he enrolled in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Beijing Tsinghua University in 1951, and graduated in 1955 from Beijing Institute of Petroleum, which was established in 1953, based on the Department of Chemical Engineering, BeiJing Tsinghua University. In the same year, he joined the faculty at the Institute of Petroleum (IOP), CAS, which renamed the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), CAS in 1961, where he has remained during his entire academic career.
In the period from 1979 to 2004, he worked as a visiting scientist in University of California at Berkeley (1979.9-1981.12; 1992.11-1993.1); University of Kaiserslautern (1989.11-1990.11; 1997.9-1997.11); Iowa State University (1990.12-1991.2; 2001.5-2001.7) and at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (2001.8-2001.11), the University of Hong Kong, (1994.10-1994.12; 1995.10-1995.12; 1996.11-1996.12; 1998.10-1998.12; 2000.10-2001.1; 2001.11-2002.1; 2004.2-2004.4); He was the Vice Chairman of Scientific Committee of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (1992-1999) and the first Director of State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics (1990-1996) and the Vice Chairman and Chairman of Scientific Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics (1996-2006). In 1991, he was elected as the Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
