Tian He  is an expert in fine chemistry. Tian is a native of Changshu, Jiangsu Province. He is a member of the Communist Party of China. Tian graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering of East China Institute of Science and Technology (now Nanjing University of Science and Technology) in 1982. He was awarded his master’s and doctoral degrees by East China University of Science and Technology in 1986 and 1989 respectively. Upon his graduation, Tian started his teaching career at the University. Later he went to Germany for his postdoctoral research in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Siegen, worked at the Max Planck Institute of Polymer Research for a short period, and conducted collaborative study at the Scripps Research Institute in California, USA. He is now a professor and dean of the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology, as well as the director of the Institute of Fine Chemicals. Concurrently, Tian serves as the editor in chief of the international academic journal Dyes and Pigments, and the deputy director of the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Department of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education. In 1996, he was awarded the National Science Found for Distinguished Young Scholars and appointed as a Cheung Kong distinguished professor by the Ministry of Education in 1999. Tian has won a National Outstanding Achievement Award for Returned Scholars and the title of National Outstanding Teacher. In the new century, he has been selected to be a National Talent of the “Hundred, Thousand and Ten-Thousand Talents Program” and was awarded a National May 1st Labor Medal. Tian has long engaged in research on fine chemicals. He has mainly worked on the synthesis of organic functional materials and corresponding photophysics and photochemistry with a focus on functional dyes. Tian began with the basic research of product engineering and gave special attention to such key issues as controllable conversion of weak interactions in dye molecules and their multi-scale functional regulation, which enabled him to propose a new concept of the dye molecular design. He also developed the method of multi-scale fine fluorescent expression, and worked on the introduction of a new system capable of multifunctional application. As a result, a research system featuring “a π-conjugated system structure and fine regulation of multi-scale function” was successfully established. Tian solved the key problems in the process of achieving clean and efficient synthesis of products. His other achievements include the invention of a new type of heterogeneous catalyst of rare-earth metal salt with a multi-branched structure, the formation of an innovative technology for clean production of high-performance pigments, the development of a series of dyes with brand-new structures for high-performance optical discs, and the solution to technical difficulties of low-cost synthesis and production. Tian’s efforts helped to break through the technical blockade concerning optical disc dyes abroad, and thus realized significant economic and social benefits. He has won the second prize of the State Science and Technology Progress Award in 2000, the second prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2007, the second prize of the Invention Award of the Science and Technology Progress Award issued by the Shanghai Municipal Government in 2002, and the first prize of the Natural Science Award issued by the Shanghai Municipal Government in 2006. Tian has published more than 200 SCI papers in academic journals abroad and been granted 49 patents for his inventions. The year of 2011 witnessed his election as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.