With decade-long persistence in faculty construction, CMSE is proud to have a well-qualified and vibrant team, with reasonable layout. CMSE now has 50 faculty members, among whom 30 percent are professors, 38 percent associate professors. In terms of academic degrees, there are 92 percent Ph.D. holders and 42 percent with overseas experience. The list of leading distinguished professors include 1 Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering (chair professor), 1 professor of the Changjiang Scholar Program(adjunct professor), 1 professor of the National Distinguished Young Scholars Program (adjunct professor), 1 young and middle-aged expert of National Prize for Outstanding Contribution, 4 professors of the Min Jiang Scholar Program and 3 professors of the “the “Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents ” Program and 5 professors of the New Century Excellent Talents in Fujian Province University and 7 receive the special subsidy of the State Council.
Prof. Hai-zhou Wang (Chair professor)
Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering
Wang Haizhou (1940.2-), male, an expert in metallurgical analysis and characterization, was honored as Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2011. After graduation from the Department of Chemistry in Peking University, he had been a professor of engineering, Ph.D. supervisor and director of the real gold international laboratory capacity verification research center in China Steel Research Institute Group Co., Ltd. The statistical characterization of the state, the analysis and characterization of the trace elements in the complex system and the real-time response technology of the metallurgical process composition state transformation proposed by Professor Wang have a guiding role in the development of the national steel metallurgical analysis and characterization technology. Professor Wang is the pioneer and inventor of new technologies and methods of characterization in metallurgical analysis and characterization in our country.
Prof. Dian Tang
Young and middle-aged expert of National Prize for Outstanding Contribution
Prof. Dian Tang is a senior investigator of the College of Materials Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, the director of the Materials Research Institute of Fuzhou University. He works hard for materials science discipline construction, doctoral degree construction, academic researches and technological developments, and has achieved excellent results. He received a numbers of honorary titles from national and provincial governments, including the “Outstanding contributions to the national middle-aged and young experts”(1999) from Chinese Government, the “The enjoyment of special allowances” (1992) from State Council, the “Excellent Scientists in Fujian” (1995) of from Fujian Government, the “Outstanding Scientific and Technological Talents” (2007) of from Fujian Provincial Government and the “Excellent Scientific and Technological Workers” (2016) from Fujian Association of Science and Technology. Prof. Tang’s research interests concern phase transformations, surface technologies and nano-materials. He has led five projects assigned by national government and eight key projects by provincial government. The great achievements made him von twice of the “National Technological Invention Prize”, and twice of the “Fujian Science & Technology Advancement Award”, at first grade level. He actively engages in technological society works. He was elected as the chairman of the Heat Treatments Society of China, Fujian Branch and the vice chairman of the Metals Society of Fujian.
Prof. Dong-yang Chen
Min River Scholar
Dr. Dongyang Chen is now the Min River Professor in the College of Materials Science and Engineering at Fuzhou University. He received his B. S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Fuzhou University in 2006, and PhD in Materials Physics and Chemistry from Sun Yat-sen University in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Yuezhong Meng. In 2011-2013, he worked as a postdoc at The Pennsylvania State University (USA) under the supervision of Prof. Mike Hickner. In 2013-2015, he worked as a postdoc at Northwestern University (UAS) under the supervision of Prof. Sir Fraser Stoddart (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2016). His research focuses on the synthesis of ion-containing polymers for proton/anion exchange membranes, and the investigation of their performance in fuel cells, redox flow batteries, supercapacitors, lithium-ion batteries. In addition, he explores redox-active organic materials with ultra-fast rechargeability for organic batteries. He has authored and co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed papers in Advanced Materials, Energe & Environmental Science, PNAS, Macromolecules, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Journal of Power Sources, Journal of Membrane Science etc. He is an active reviewer for more than 20 interational scientific journals.
Prof. Zhi-yong Guo
Min River Scholar
Dr. Zhiyong Guo is now the Minjiang River Scholar Professor in the College of Materials at Fuzhou University. He received his B.Sc. degree in polymer from Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 2004, and Ph.D. degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academic of Sciences in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Hongjie Zhang. In 2010-2016, he worked as a postdoctor at University of Texas at San Antonio, Iowa State University, Florida State University and University of Amsterdam. His current research concentrates on new porous materials synthesis and application in visible-light photoredox catalysis, molecular recognition and light harvesting. He has authored and co-authored over 35 refereed journal publications, most of which were published on the top journals including Angew Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., ACS Catal., Chem. Commun., etc.
Dr. Nian-cai Cheng
Min River Scholar
Dr. Niancai Cheng is now the Minjiang River Scholar Professor in the College of Materials Science and Engineering at Fuzhou Univeristy and leads the advanced energy materials group. He received his B.S. degree in 2003 and Ph. D. degree in 2010 from Wuhan University of technology, China. He was a visiting Ph.D student at Prof. Frank Marken’ group, University of Bath (2008–2009). In 2011–2012, He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Prof. Andrzej Wieckowski's group, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Then he joined Prof. Sun group as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario, Canada from 2012-2016. He has authored and co-authored over 30 refereed journal publications, most of which were published on the top journals including Nature communications, Advanced Materials, Energy & Environmental Science, Nano energy, Advanced energy materials, journal of power sources, etc. Currently, his focus is on development of novel nanomaterials and the design of atomic level catalysts by atomic layer deposition (ALD) for energy conversion。
Dr. Fang-xing Xiao
Min River Scholar
Dr. Fang-Xing Xiao is now the Min River Scholar Professor in the college of materials science and engineering at Fuzhou Univeristy. He received his bachelor and master’s degrees in materials science and engineering from National Huaqiao University in 2006 and 2009 and Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Fuzhou University in 2013. In 2013-2016, he worked as a research fellow at Nanyang Technological University. His current research interest predominantly concentrates on design and preparation of novel photocatalysts or photoelectrods for solar energy conversion and investigations on their photocatalytic or photoelectrochemical mechanism. He has authored and co-authored over 40 refereed journal publications, most of which were published on the top journals including Chemical Society Reviews, Journal of the American chemical society, , Advanced Energy materials, Small, etc.