On September 25th, the "Scientific Exploration Award" with a whopping 1 billion yuan in startup funds officially announced the list of winners for its second edition, with 50 young scientists receiving awards. Over the next 5 years, they will each receive 3 million yuan in research grants funded by the Tencent Foundation. Notably, among the awardees is Professor Wang Zuankai from City University of Hong Kong, a user of Perfectlight Technology.
Image: List of Awardees for the 2020 Scientific Exploration Award
Wang Zuankai is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong, Vice-Dean of the College of Science, a Ministry of Education "Changjiang Scholar" Chair Professor, and a founding member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Jilin University in 2000 with a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, obtained a Master's degree in Microelectronics from the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2003, and earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2008. He conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, from 2008 to 2009. In late 2009, he joined City University of Hong Kong. He was elected as a Fellow of the International Society of Bionics Engineering in 2019. In 2016, he received the Outstanding Youth Award from the International Society of Bionics Engineering. He received the President's Awards from City University of Hong Kong in 2016 and 2017, the Outstanding Research Award from City University of Hong Kong in 2017, the President's Lectureship and the Young Scholar Award from the International Cultural Council in 2018, and the President's Lectureship from City University of Hong Kong in 2020. His main research interests include biomimetic mechanical systems and microscale transport phenomena. Over the past 7 years, he has published 14 papers in Nature/Science and its sub-journals, as well as more than 90 SCI papers in academic journals such as Nature Physics, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Science, Science Advances, and PRL. His doctoral students have won awards such as the Gold and Silver Awards for Outstanding Graduate Students from the American Materials Research Society (currently the Gold and Silver Awards in the Hong Kong region), and the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award (2016 Outstanding Award, 2019 Silver Award).
E-mail: zuanwang@cityu.edu.hk
Lab Website: wangzuankai.wixsite.com/wanglab
