On April 21, 2022, Xumu ZHANG, Vice Dean of the College of Science and Chair Professor of the Department of Chemistry at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), was elected as a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Engineering (RAE).

Associate Professor Yatao Peng from the Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (SIQSE) at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), in collaboration with Professor Edoardo Charbon from the Advanced Quantum Architecture Laboratory (AQUA Lab), are working on a cryogenic (Bi)CMOS integrated circuit for quantum applications to solve the scalable control/readout problem for large-scale qubits.

Chair Professor Zhiping Zheng’s research team from the Department of Chemistry at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has recently made significant progress toward this goal. Specifically, the researchers succeeded in extending the Noble Prize-winning Grubbs catalysts for the efficient dehydrogenation of LOHCs. Such an application goes beyond their well-established uses for olefin metathesis reactions. Their findings are detailed in a recent series of research articles.

Associate Professor Yang-Gang Wang’s team from the Department of Chemistry at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) recently published their findings on understanding the dynamic mechanism of oxygen reaction catalyzed by single atom catalyst dispersed on nitrogen-doped graphene.

Chair Professor Jiaqing He’s team from the Department of Physics at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) recently made substantial progress in the research on energy conversion of thermoelectric materials.

Xueming YANG, Acting Vice President of SUSTech and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Jiping ZHANG, Director of the SUSTech International Center for Mathematics and Academician of the CAS, spoke about their respective academic journeys with the theme of the event entitled “In Search of Excellence”.