Ben Zhong Tang, Professor

Dean of School of Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China.

Prof. Tang received BS and PhD degrees from South China University of Technology and Kyoto University in 1982 and 1988, respectively. He conducted postdoctoral research at University of Toronto in 1989–1994. He joined the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology in 1994 and was promoted to Chair Professor in 2008. He was elected to Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009, Asia Pacific Academy of Materials in 2017 and World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries in 2020. In 2021, he joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen as Dean of School of Science and Engineering, with concurrent appointment of X.Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor.

Prof. Tang has published >1,900 scientific papers, which have been cited by peers >145,000 times. His h-index is 170. He has delivered >500 invited talks at international conferences and has been issued >100 patents. He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of Aggregate published by Wiley and is sitting in the editorial boards of >20 international scientific journals.

Prof. Tang mainly engages in materials science, macromolecular chemistry and biomedical theranostics. He coined the scientific concept of aggregation-induced emission (AIE) and his laboratories are spearheading the AIE research in the world.

He received a series of awards, scholarships and honors, e.g., Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Award (2007), National Natural Science Award (2007, 2nd Class), MACRO2012 Lecture Award (American Chemical Society), Khwarizmi International Award (2014, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology) and Honorary Citizen of Guangzhou City (2015). He has been listed as “Highly Cited Researcher” since 2014 in the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science. In 2017, he was awarded National Natural Science Award (1st Class) and Scientific and Technological Progress Award (Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation).