The SUSTech Mathematics Department was founded in June 2015. As of the 2022 - 2023 academic year, the Department consists of 43 research and teaching-line faculty members and 10 teaching-line faculty members, 267 graduate students, and 146 undergraduate majors. The Department is currently located in the College of Science Building, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue. Our administrative office is situated in Room M715 on the seventh floor.

The Department offers undergraduate degrees in the following areas:

Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

Financial Mathematics

Our graduate program (master and doctoral) covers nearly all fields of mathematical sciences. In addition, the Department also has joint Ph.D. programs with a few well-known overseas and Hong Kong/Macao universities providing excellent opportunities for prospective students.

Our faculty members’ research covers a broad range of areas including Mathematics (dynamical systems, algebra and combinatorics, algebraic number theory, PDEs, mathematical physics and differential geometry, etc.), Computational and Applied Mathematics (applied mathematics, numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, scientific computing, inverse problems, data science, etc.), Probability and Statistics, and Financial Mathematics.

The Department is well-funded for its research effort. Our faculty members have successfully obtained over 120 new external research grants (80 at the national level), with three major grants from NSFC. Furthermore, the department houses one of the Guangdong Provincial Major Laboratories. 

The Department enjoys an outstanding faculty. Most of our senior faculty members have had tenured positions in leading Universities in the US, Canada, Australia, and European Countries. Most of our junior faculty have had multiple years of teaching and research experiences overseas, after receiving their degrees in some of the top universities in the world. Our faculty members have been invited to speak at major international conferences such as ICM, obtained distinguished honors such as membership to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Science Award, serve on the editorial boards of more than 30 international research journals, and published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Mathematics, Inventiones Mathematicae, JAMS, and Acta.

As the Department continues to grow, we are actively recruiting new faculty members, postdocs, visitors and graduate students. We welcome outstanding candidates to join us in our exciting journey to become a world class mathematical department.

The Department of Physics at Southern University of Science and Technology has been established since 2011. The Department’s commitment is to develop first-class education and top-notch research in physics. The Department of Physics has been granted authority to award bachelor's degree in Physics and Applied Physics. In addition, the Department has established post-doctoral workstations in 2019.

The Department has a current size of 49 academic staff, including 10 chair Professors, 9 Professors, 20 Associate Professors, 8 Assistant Professors and 2 Teaching Professor. There are 6 Academicians (including joint employment), 7 APS Fellow, 5 Distinguished Young Scholar, and 5 "Pengcheng" scholars. All members of our academic staff have study or work experience at top 100 universities in the world. The Department of Physics now offers 4 majors in condensed matter physics, computational physics, theoretical physics and optics, while setting up astrophysics physics, particle physics, biological and medical physics. The staff members are engaged in frontier researches in the fields of quantum transport and regulation, surface physics, materials physics, computational physics, condensed matter theory, quantum information and quantum computing, atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics.

In recent years, our staff members have published many papers in high profile journals, gaining the Department international impact. Our research support totaled about 700 million (CNY), including 131 projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China, 35 projects from Ministry of Science and Technology and Department of Education, 47 projects from Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, and 113 projects from Shenzhen City. Our academic staff have published about 2300 papers in journals of physics including Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters, etc. Southern University of Science and Technology, carrying historical responsibility of higher education reform in China, is rapidly developing towards the direction of international, high-level, research-oriented university. Keeping pace with the university, the Department of Physics has established a long-term development plan to forge ahead in their endeavor, to enhance its own overall strength both in hardware and software, and to strive to maintain the forward momentum into a world-class physics department at an early date.（The data is before August 2024）

Established in 2011, Department of Chemistry of SUSTech is currently a key discipline in Guangdong province. The discipline has entered the top 1% in ESI global ranking, and chemistry discipline ranks 28th in Nature Index 2018 in China. In 2017, the Department was granted with the qualification of offering postgraduate program. At present, it covers a number of research fields such as inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry / computational chemistry, analytical chemistry / chemical biology, chemical engineering, polymer chemistry, and so on. In March 2018, Department of Chemistry of SUSTech was granted with level I discipline of master's degree after being reviewed and approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council.

Department of Chemistry has 37 teaching and research staff. All of them own research and employment experience in overseas universities or research institutes. Faculty selected for talent programs account for nearly 80%, 51% of them are under the age of 40 and the key team members are with internationally leading academic level. Among them, there are ten chair professors, seven professors, 15 associate professors and five assistant professors, including two academicians from Chinese Academy of Sciences, one foreign academician from Australia, one winner of National Outstanding Youth Fund, one awardee of National Distinguished Professor (Youth Talent Plan) of the Ministry of Education, and one  awardee of the Pearl River Scholar.

Department of Chemistry has independently undertaken more than 80 national and local research projects, including over 60 projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, with a total research funding of more than RMB 170 million. In the past three years, the academic staff have published more than 440 important articles in Nature, Science, Nat. Comm., Chem. Soc.Rev., JACS, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and other authoritative journals of chemistry. The average impact factor exceeds 4.0, and some research results have been recommended or highlighted by journals such as Nature and Nature Chem. According to the latest ranking data of ESI in July 2018: The chemistry discipline of SUSTech has entered the top 1% of ESI worldwide. The statistics of the Nature Index 2018 Tables show that the Department of Chemistry of SUSTech ranks 28th among all Chinese universities.

Department of Chemistry implements a three-step strategy: Stage 1--laying a solid foundation in discipline (2015-2020); Stage2-- growing at a fast pace (2020-2025), and Stage 3--fostering global influence (2025-2049). Our goal is to build a world-class department of chemistry!

The Department of Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) was established in January 2017. Prof. Xiaofei CHEN, a renowned seismologist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was appointed as the founding department head.   

ESS encompasses a wide range of research directions, including the physics and dynamics of the Earth's interior, applied geophysics, space physics and planetary science. By the end of September 2024, ESS has forty-eight faculty members, including four chair professors,five professors, seventeen associate professors, fiveassistant professors, and seventeen research scientists. Among them, there is one Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, four Distinguished Young Scholars andthreeExcellent Young Scientist of National Science Foundation of China. 

Through the development of a world-leading program of research and education in ESS, we strive to conduct research to advance our understanding of the complex Earth and space system, and to provide scientific solutions to many societal challenges of our time such as natural hazards, natural energy resources, and space exploration. In the meantime, ESS offers rigorous hands-on training to students and helps them to become future leaders in academia, government and industry. We welcome more talents to join us and work together to build a world-class research and education center for Earth and Space Sciences.

Established in April 2019, the Department of Statistics and Data Science aims to institute a world-class learning and research center. The department is committed to cultivating top-notch talents’ proactive thoughts, innovative thinking, global vision, as well as their core skills in scientific methodologies. The department now offers two undergraduate programs: major in Statistics, and major in Data Science and Big Data Technology. The department also offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs in Probability and Statistics. Key specialized research areas of our faculty members include Mathematical Statistics, Biostatistics, Financial Statistics and Data Science.

There are currently 271 undergraduate students, 37 M.Phil. students and 49 Ph.D. students. As the department grows in size and strength, the number of graduate students is expected to rise substantially from the current level. 

We currently have 19 full-time and 4 jointly appointed faculty members. All faculty members of the department have extensive overseas study or working experiences, including an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, two winners of the prestigious State Natural Science Award (2nd class), two Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Fellows, an IMS Council member, a Fellow of American Statistical Association, an IMS Medallion Lecturer, a Fellow of the Royal Statistics Society, a Fellow of the British Computer Society. 

Thanks to the rich and quality resources of SUSTech, we have established the center for biostatistics and the statistic consulting center. The center for financial statistics and the center for data science will also be in place in the future. By working with SUSTech Global, we provide high-quality and multi-type International Education Training and Development Plans for undergraduates and postgraduates, as well as the opportunities to study in overseas universities. We are committed to enhancing student’s social vision and well-rounded thinking.

National Center for Applied Mathematics Shenzhen (hereinafter referred to as "the Center") is led by Southern University of Science and Technology and co-built by Shenzhen University, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, and China Electronics Technology Group. The construction plan of the NCAMS was officially approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology in February 2020, making it one of the first thirteen national applied mathematics centers in China and the first national-level mathematics center in Shenzhen. In 2023, the center successfully passed the evaluation for the construction period, officially entering a new stage of development.

The center gathers outstanding talents from major universities and advantageous scientific research groups from multiple important enterprises and institutions in Shenzhen. Its primary mission is to tackle major national needs, guided by the principles of "Rooted in Shenzhen, Radiating across the Greater Bay Area, Serving the nation, and Looking towards the world". The center is particularly focused on the common and critical technical issues associated with the application of mathematics, striving to breaks down institutional disciplinary barriers. It aims to establish a foundational scientific center that integrates talent cultivation, scientific research, and industrial services, ultimately contributing to the economic and social development of Shenzhen.

The Shenzhen International Center for Mathematics is a university-level physical scientific research institution funded by the Shenzhen Municipal Government and led by the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) for construction. As a part of implementing the "Ten Major Action Plans" for Shenzhen to build an international science and technology industry innovation center, the Shenzhen International Center for Mathematics aims to enhance and lead scientific research in the field of mathematics in Shenzhen, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and southern China. 

The center mainly focuses on three research areas: pure mathematics, computational mathematics, and probability and statistics. It conducts in-depth research around cutting-edge mathematical problems in related fields, with the goal of achieving breakthroughs in basic theories and striving to obtain important and original research achievements.

As an important supporting platform for the first-class discipline of mathematics at SUSTech, the center has made significant progress in the introduction of top international talents, major basic theoretical research, and international cooperation and exchanges. The center has assembled a high-level scientific research team for its construction, including 26 facultys in the teaching and research track and 4 facultys in the research track. The introduced top international talents include Efim Zelmanov, the Fields Medalist, and Vyacheslav Futorny and Pedro Sãlomao, who are 45-minute speakers at the International Congress of Mathematicians. During the construction of the center, scientific research personnel in various research fields have all achieved important original results. It is particularly worth mentioning that the team led by Stavros Garoufalidis has made significant progress in calculating the incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds, and related papers have been published in Inventiones Mathematicae, one of the top international mathematics journals.

In terms of international cooperation and exchanges, the center maintains close connections and in-depth cooperation with domestic and foreign universities and research institutions. It invites top scientists such as speakers at the International Congress of Mathematicians and academicians of academies of sciences to visit the center, and actively negotiates in-depth cooperation matters with institutions like the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics in Brazil and the Department of Mathematics of the National University of Mongolia.

As an international research institution founded in December, 2017 and supported by Shenzhen government, Shenzhen Grubbs Institute will attract top Chinese and foreign scientists and their research teams to participate in cooperation. The institute aim to develop into a fundamental research center with Chinese characteristics and profound global impact. By building the Homogeneous Catalysis platform in Organic Synthesis and Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, the institute will focus on innovation and scientific research, and strive for industrial achievements to promote the upgrading and transformation of Shenzhen-related industries.

Shenzhen Grubbs Institute is the first research institute named after a Nobel laureate in Chemistry in China and one of the first batch of Nobel Prize Laboratories in "Shenzhen TOP Ten Action Plans". Relying on SUSTech, the Institute mainly focuses on the field of Homogeneous Catalysis in Organic Synthesis and Polymer Synthesis and Characterization. Under the leadership of Professor Grubbs, based on high-end talents at SUSTech, the Institute will bring in more scientists from all over the world to build a world-class homogeneous catalysis platform.  The institute will solve top challenges of frontier areas including green catalytic synthesis of drugs and catalytic production of special materials, and strive for industrial achievements. The objective is to build the institute into the most important base of new medicine and new materials in China and a top international research institute in the world.

The Institute will cooperate closely with departments of SUSTech, as well as top universities and research institutes at home and abroad by gathering top-level talents and building top-level research platforms, to ensure the leading position in the field of homogeneous catalysis. The research results of the institute will promote industrialization through patent applications, technology transfer, cooperation with large enterprises, starting up business by team members, etc., to contribute to the optimization and development of related industries in Shenzhen.

The theoretical limit of the ability of quantum computing technology to store and process information is proportional to the number of bits 2^n. Therefore, it has super-parallel computing capabilities where traditional computers do not have. It has a huge application prospect in intelligent processing, cloud computing, biological structure analysis and material genetic design, especially in the fields of national defense and military, of complex large-scale data. Thus, it is an important development direction of High Performance Computing (HPC) technology and attracted  great attention from developed countries: United Kingdom published a blueprint for the development of quantum technology as early as in 2014; Europe has launched a billion-euro flagship program for quantum computing; the US State Department has also published a national development strategy for quantum information and quantum computing; China has listed quantum information as a national priority development strategy, and quantum communication Quantum computing is listed in the top three of the 100 major technology and engineering projects in the "13th Five-Year Plan".

Responding to the country's "innovation-driven" national strategy, Shenzhen began to implement a "new round of innovation and development strategic layout and accelerate the development of international science and technology and industrial innovation centers." Meanwhile, it launched "Top Ten Action Plans" for science and technology innovation in early 2017. The action plan revolves around the priority development strategic positioning of the country's "quantum technology", and lists quantum science as one of the ten directions for key development. As one of the first three “Top Ten Basic Research Institutions” to be built, the groundbreaking ceremony of Shenzhen Institute of Quantum Science and Engineering (hereinafter referred to as “Institute of Quantum Science and Engineering”) kicked off in January 2018.

Shenzhen Institute of Quantum Science and Engineering is established and operated by SUSTech. It will explore cutting-edge fundamental scientific issues in the field of quantum information and serve the major needs of Shenzhen in technology and industrialization in the fields of quantum communication, high-performance computing technology and precision measurement and quantum materials. The Institute strives to address a large number of key scientific and engineering problems in the field of quantum information, train a group of elites in science with international influence, and build a basic research institution with significant international influences.

The overall goals of Shenzhen Institute of Quantum Science and Engineering are: 

1. Dare to aim high and take courageous roles: Lay out the Chinese version of the "Science and Technology Revitalization Plan" according to the national policy of quantum information national priority development strategy, and achieve a number of "Nobel Prize-level" major scientific achievements in the research of future functional materials to lead the future scientific discoveries, disruptive technological breakthroughs and industrial development; 

2. Foster connection between China and the world: As an economic, financial and innovation center in South China, one of the four major network centers in China in the future, and an important hub city in the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration, Shenzhen needs to participate in the "Beijing-Shanghai-Shenzhen" North-South main line, establish the Greater Bay Area Local Area Network, and form a quantum network that radiates Southeast Asia; 

3. Manufacture a powerful quantum computer and provide a powerful impetus for the 4th Industrial Revolution: carry out quantum simulation and artificial intelligence; provide "quantum cloud computing" platform services; develop a dedicated quantum computer that is powerful and can perform specific tasks.

Institute of Major Scientific Facilities for New Materials (IMSFNM) which is founded in August 2024, has been carrying the burden of national science and technology innovation. IMSFNM gives full play to the role of the “Shenzhen Material Genome Big-science Facilities Platform” as a large scientific platform, with “Openness, Sharing and Innovation” as the purpose, to serve universities, research institutes and related enterprises and institutions in the Greater Bay Area and even the whole country. IMSFNM guided by the major national needs and targeting the national “big science” projects, focuses on solving the core technical problems in the field of materials, covering a number of key areas, such as biomimetic materials, new energy, optoelectronic information, biomedicine, carbon-neutralization, oceans and seas, nuclear power, aerospace and so on. The research results of IMSFNM not only have far-reaching impact on the construction of the National Comprehensive Science Center in the Greater Bay Area, but also are a powerful driving force to promote the development of new materials industry in Shenzhen and even the whole country.