On December 21st, a ceremony was held in the conference room on the 9th floor of Hongyuan Building to appoint YU Shuhong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a consultant professor of SDUT. LYU Chuanyi, secretary of the Party committee of SDUT, HU Xingyu, deputy secretary of the Party committee and president of SDUT, LIU Guohua and SU Shoubo, members of the standing committee of the Party committee and vice presidents of SDUT, attended the ceremony. Heads of relevant functional departments and schools took part in the ceremony. The ceremony was presided over by LIU Guohua.
After watching the promotional film, LYU Chuanyi delivered a speech. On behalf of the university, he extended a warm welcome to academician YU Shuhong. He said that since the “13th Five-Year” plan, SDUT had vigorously implemented the “talent priority strategy” and paid close attention to the human resource. New breakthroughs had made in the quantity and quality of introducing doctors at national, provincial and ministerial level, as well as young excellent doctoral talents. During the “14th Five-Year” plan, SDUT would carry out the “strategy of strengthening superior disciplines” and continue to implement the “talent priority strategy”, strive to reach a new high in talent introduction and lay a foundation for realization of national first-class disciplines.
LYU Chuanyi said that academician YU Shuhong, as a scientist in the fields of chemistry, chemical engineering and material science, had a broad academic vision and profound academic attainments, and would play a crucial role in the rapid and high-quality development of chemistry, chemical engineering, materials and related disciplines for SDUT.
HU Xingyu awarded the letter of appointment to academician YU Shuhong.
YU Shuhong said in his speech that SDUT played a decisive role in Shandong province and has made good achievements in talent training, introduction and use, scientific research and achievement transformation. He would do his best to guide the construction of relevant disciplines and jointly promote the high-quality development of SDUT.
After the ceremony, YU Shuhong had a discussion and exchange with School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering and relevant functional departments, and put forward specific guidance on the development of relevant disciplines and scientific research.
YU Shuhong, elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019, has long been engaged in the research on biomimetic synthesis and functionalization of inorganic materials, and has made many innovative achievements in polymer controlled crystallization and biomimetic materials, macro scale nano assembly preparation and functionalization, inorganic-organic composite nano materials. He has won the second prize of National Natural Science for 3 times, the first prize of Anhui Natural Science for 2 times, the 2nd National Innovation Award and the 10th China Youth Science and Technology Award.He has published more than 360 SCI papers in international journals such as Nature Materials, Chem. Rev. and was invited to published 26 review papers, research papers and research news in international journals including Acc. Chem. Res. Adv. Mater., and many papers have been selected as research highlights, cover papers and hot papers by Chemistry World and Materials Views.