Recently, Mr. Yang Jianping, researcher of College of Materials Science and Engineering, was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Founded in 1841, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is the world’s longest-standing academic institution and one of the most influential groups in the international academic community. Each year, the Society selects, on the basis of expert recommendations, Fellows of the Society who have made remarkable achievements in the field of chemistry and who have contributed to the progress of chemistry in the UK and internationally.
Yang Jianping, researcher, doctoral supervisor, and now deputy dean of the College of Materials Science and Engineering, joined the College of Materials Science and Engineering and the State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials at Donghua University as a University Distinguished Research Fellow in September 2016, engaging in the research of materials interfacial regulation and high-performance for materials interfacial systems in energy- and environment-related processes, to address the challenges in the fields of energy conversion, carbon and nitrogen recycling and resourcing, and microplastic degradation. He has published more than 180 SCI papers, with more than 15,000 citations, 20 ESI highly cited papers, an H-index of 60, and 18 invention patents authorized in China. He has presided over 26 projects which are founded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Foreign Experts Program of Ministry of Science and Technology, Regional Research Cooperation and High-level Talents Cultivation Program of China Scholarship Council, Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. He has been selected as one of the Emerging Investigators of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Chemical Communications, Molecular Systems Design & Engineering of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Wiley. He has also been awarded a certificate for the Wiley Open Science Excellent Author Program, and honored as one of the top 100,000 scholars in the world, also one of the top 2% of scientists in the world. He is the laureate of Pujiang Talent Program, Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation (FYTEF) award from the Ministry of Education, Science Fund Program Guidelines for Distinguished Young Scholars, Shanghai Shuguang Scholar, and the Second Prize of the Shanghai Natural Science Award (primary fulfiller).
