Professor Hua Zhang, Herman Hu Chair Professor of Nanomaterials in the Department of Chemistry, has been elected Foreign Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences in recognition of his highly interdisciplinary research.

He is noted for his groundbreaking discovery of novel unconventional phases of nanomaterials for various promising applications, such as catalysis and clean energy, among others. His current research interests focus on the phase engineering of nanomaterials for phase-dependent property studies and applications.

Professor Zhang has filed 74 patent applications (including eight granted US patents), and published five invited book chapters and over 490 papers with citations and an H-index of over 71,000 and 131 (Web of Science) and over 84,000 and 139 (Google Scholar), respectively. He was a Highly Cited Researcher from 2014 to 2019 according to Clarivate Analytics (Thomson Reuters), and he was listed in the top 300 most cited researchers in the field of materials science and engineering by Elsevier Scopus in 2016.

He is an Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

(Source: Communications and Public Relations Office, CityU)