分别于1992、2001和2004年在南开大学获得理学学士、硕士和博士学位；2004年于南开大学高分子化学研究所任职副教授，2010年任研究员（博士生导师）。发现了一类新型的热敏高分子；发展/完善了嵌段共聚物胶体的高效合成方法；提出了利用热敏高分子胶体实现智能催化的新思路。2006年入选教育部新世纪优秀人才支持计划，2015年获得国家杰出青年科学基金资助。

2015年获国家自然科学杰出青年基金
2006年入选教育部新世纪优秀人才

(1)Pengfei Shi, Yaqing Qu, Chonggao Liu, Habib Khan, Pingchuang Sun, and Wangqing Zhang, Redox-Responsive Multicompartment Vesicles of Ferrocene-Containing Triblock Terpolymer Exhibiting On–Off Switchable Pores, ACS Macro Letters, 2016, 5, 88-93.
(2)Pengfei Shi, Chengqiang Gao, Xin He, Pingchuan Sun, and Wangqing Zhang, Multicompartment Nanoparticles of Poly(4-vinylpyridine) Graft Block Terpolymer: Synthesis and Application as Scaffold for Efficient Au Nanocatalyst, Macromolecules, 2015, 48, 1380-1389.
(3)Shentong Li, Xin He, Quanlong Li, Pengfei Shi, and Wangqing Zhang, Synthesis of Multicompartment Nanoparticles of Block Copolymer through Two Macro-RAFT Agents Co-Mediated Dispersion Polymerization, ACS Macro Letters, 2014, 3, 916-921.
(4)Meihan Dan, Yang Su, Xin Xiao, Shentong Li, and Wangqing Zhang, A New Family of Thermo-Responsive Polymers Based on Poly[N-(4-vinylbenzyl)-N,N-dialkylamine], Macromolecules, 2013, 46, 3137-3146.
(5)Jianxiong Xu, Guojun Chen, Rui Yan, Da Wang, Minchao Zhang, Wangqing Zhang, and Pingchuan Sun, One-Stage Synthesis of Cagelike Porous Polymeric Microspheres and Application as Catalyst Scaffold of Pd Nanoparticles, Macromolecules, 2011, 44, 3730-3738.
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