We would like to extend our congratulations to Prof. Zheng, Chair Professor of Soft Materials and Devices at the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) for receiving The President’s Award for Outstanding Achievement 2023 – Research and Scholarly Activities (Outstanding Young Researcher). PolyU acknowledges the exceptional accomplishments and contributions of staff members through the awards. After a thorough evaluation process, Prof. Zheng, along with three other staff members, was chosen for the Individual Award.
Prof. Zheng joined PolyU as Assistant Professor in 2009, and was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2013, Professor in 2017 and Chair Professor in 2023. He has published around 240 papers in journals including Science, Nat. Mater., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., JACS, Angew. Chem. Prof. Zheng has also filed over 40 patents and is the recipient of more than 15 academic awards. Prof. Zheng serves as Guest Editor of Advanced Materials and Small, and Editor-in-Chief of EcoMat, a flagship open-access journal in green energy and environment published by Wiley. He was elected Founding Member of The Young Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong (2018), Chang Jiang Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education of China (2020), Senior Research Fellow of the University Grant Committee of Hong Kong (2021), and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022).
We offer our warmest congratulations to Prof. Zheng for this outstanding accomplishment.
