Professor Zijian ZHENG
鄭子劍
YFHKEng [2023]
Chair Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
- Fellow, International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM)
- RGC Senior Research Fellow
- Chang Jiang Chair Professor
- Founding Member, The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences
- President's Award for Outstanding Achievement, PolyU
- Hong Kong Engineering Science and Technology Award
- IUMRS Frontier Materials Young Scientists Award
- Outstanding Young Research Award, Wiley
- EPSRC Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award, UK
- Chinese Government Research Student Award, China
Prof. Zheng’s research interests include surface and polymer science, nanofabrication, flexible and wearable electronics, energy conversion and storage. He received his B. Eng. in Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University in 2003, PhD in Chemistry at University of Cambridge in 2007, and postdoctoral training at Northwestern University in 2008-2009. He 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 more than 240 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and Advanced Materials, and has filed more than 50 patents.
BEng
Tsinghua University
PhD
University of Cambridge