CityU scientist awarded for contribution to SDGs

Professor David Lou Xiongwen

Professor David Lou Xiongwen

President Freddy Boey Yin Chiang (third from right), Professor Chen Fu-rong (second from right) and Professor Raymond Chan Hon-fu, Dean of the CityU College of Science (first from right), accompanied by Professor Duan Xianzhong, President of Hunan University (fourth from right), visit Hunan University.

Professor Michael Yang Mengsu, CityU Vice-President (Research and Technology) (3rd from right), led the research team. (From left: Zhou Li, CityU Research Assistant and PhD student at Chongqing Medical University, Kelvin Ng Kaki and Eileen Yang Zihan, CityU PhD students, Professor Yang, Wang Zesheng and Si Tongxu, CityU PhD students.)

Professor Chan Chi-hou (second from left, front row), Professor Tsai Din-Ping (right, front row) and researchers at CityU have developed a novel tunable terahertz meta-device.
The novel tunable terahertz (THz) meta-device that allows for signal delivery to specific receivers is a key focus of attention at CityU.

Professor Chan Chi-hou, Acting President (from left), Professor Chen Fu-rong, Chair Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Director of the Time-Resolved Aberration-Corrected Environmental EM Unit (TRACE) and Director of the Shenzhen Futian Research Institute; and Dr Hsueh Yu-chun, Research Fellow, TRACE.

Liu Xiaoyuan developed a series of novel meta-devices.
A PhD student at CityU beat over 300 candidates and won the Top Ten Academic Youth Award for Metamaterial Postgraduate.

(From left) Professor Liu, Fan Chaoyang, PhD student, and Yang Yongting, Research Assistant of NS.
A major advance in treating spinal cord injuries by using genetically modified human neural stem cells (hNSCs) has been made by a team co-led by CityU).

An international research team led by Professor Zhang Hua has successfully developed a highly efficient electrocatalyst that can enhance hydrogen generation through electrocatalytic water splitting.

Professor Ren Yang (right), Professor Liu Qi of the Department of Physics and their team have achieved pivotal breakthrough in battery technology.
A pivotal breakthrough in battery technology that has profound implications for our energy future has been achieved by a team co-led by CityU.

(From left) Professor Dong Yining, Professor He Yukun, Professor Wang Shubo, Professor Wu Wei and Professor Zhu Zonglong.
Five young CityU academics were awarded the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau) by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) for 2023, with each awardee receiving funding worth RMB 2 million.