Zijian ZHENG
- Chair Professor of Soft Materials and Devices, Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Science Faculty, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Director, CR-PolyU Joint Research Institute for Carbon Neutral New Materials
- Director, PolyU-Huizhou Technology and Innovation Research Institute
- Director, Flexible Electronics Centre, PolyU-Wenzhou Technology and Innovation Research Institute
- Associate Director, Research Institute for Intelligent Wearable Systems
- Associate Director, University Research Facility in Materials Characterization and Device Fabrication
- Founding Member, The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences
Prof. Zijian Zheng is currently Chair Professor of Soft Materials and Devices at the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include surface and polymer science, nanofabrication, flexible and wearable electronics, energy conversion and storage. He has published more than 240 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and Advanced Materials, and has filed more than 40 patents. He is recipient of more than 15 academic awards, including PolyU President's Award for Outstanding Achievement (2024), Hong Kong Engineering Science and Technology Award (2023), IUMRS Frontier Materials Young Scientists Award (2023), and Gold Medal (2019) and Silver Medal (2015, 2023) of GENEVA International Technology Invention Award. Currently, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of EcoMat (impact factor: 10.7), a flagship open-access journal in green energy and environment published by Wiley. He is Founding Member of The Young Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong (2018), Young Fellow of The Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Science (YFHKEng, 2024), Chang Jiang Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education of China (2020), Senior Research Fellow of the University Grant Commission of Hong Kong (2021), Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM, 2021), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2022).