Professor Zhang Hua is Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry of City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He obtained a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree at Nanjing University, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy with Professor Liu Zhongfan at Peking University, China.
His research focuses on phase engineering of nanomaterials and epitaxial growth of heterostructures for various applications. By widening the applications of nanomaterials, his team is playing a significant role in bringing about transformational changes for a better life.
Professor Zhang has published over 550 papers. His research had been cited over 104,600 times (Web of Science) and over 122,600 times (Google Scholar), and he has an h-index of 161 and 170, respectively. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom in 2014, Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials in 2015, and a Foreign Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences in 2020. He was listed among the top 2% of the world's most highly cited scientists, according to metrics compiled by Stanford University in 2020 and 2021. Based on data from Thomson Reuters, he was listed among the “Highly Cited Researchers” in Materials Science in 2014, and in Chemistry and Materials Science in 2015-2021; and as one of the 17 and 19 “Hottest Researchers of Today” in the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds in 2014 and 2015, respectively. His numerous awards include the “Nanyang Award for Research Excellence” (2011), the “SMALL Young Innovator Award” (2012), the “World Cultural Council Special Recognition Award” (2013), the “ACS Nano Lectureship Award” (2015), the “Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholar Award” by the University of Wollongong, Australia (2016), and CityU’s “The President’s Award” (2021).