International Conference on Aggregate Science

20th Anniversary of AIE Research

Ben Zhong Tang

Prof. Ben Zhong Tang

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) 

South China University of Technology 

Ben Zhong Tang is Presidential Chair Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ), China. He is serving as Dean of the School of Science and Engineering at CUHK-SZ, Director of AIE Institute, and Dean of SCUT-HKUST Joint Research Institute. He received BS and PhD degrees from South China University of Technology and Kyoto University, respectively, and conducted postdoctoral research at University of Toronto. He joined HKUST as an assistant professor in 1994 and was promoted to chair professor in 2008. He was elected to Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Asia Pacific Academy of Materials, and World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries in 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2020, respectively. His research interests include macromolecular chemistry, materials science, and biomedical theranostics. He has published over 1,600 papers which have been cited for over 110,000 times, with an h-index of 152. He has been selected as a Highly Cited Researcher in both areas of Chemistry and Materials Science by Web of Science since 2014. He has received the State Natural Science Award (1st Class; 2017) from the Chinese Government, the Scientific and Technological Progress Award from the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (2017) and Senior Research Fellowship from the Croucher Foundation (2007).

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