Source: News Center

The TWAS 23rd General Meeting opens today in Tianjin. The theme of the conference is "science and sustainability". It is just learned that academician Chen Xiaoming from School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University is awarded TWAS Chemistry Prize.

TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, was founded in 1983. It is a non-governmental, non-political and non-profit international organization based in Trieste, Italy. It enjoys a high prestige in the international scientific and technological community. TWAS awards eight prizes in the following fields: agricultural sciences, biology, medical sciences, chemistry, engineering sciences, earth sciences, mathematics, and physics. Every year the awardees are selected from many candidates and each recipient is awarded a medal and US$ 10,000. Its aim is to recognize and support excellence in scientific research in the developing world and promote scientific development in the developing countries. China plays a leading role in scientific and technological innovations in the developing world. According to statistics, 42 Chinese scientists have won TWAS prizes since 1985.


Academician Chen Xiaoming, who is away on business, is pleasantly surprised at the news. He said that his research benefits from over thirty years of reform and opening up in our country. With increasing economic strength, Chinese scientists have the opportunities to conduct advanced research. He also expressed that the award is the result of the joint efforts of faculty and students.

Academician Chen Xiaoming obtained his BSc (1983) and MSc (1986) degrees from Sun Yat-sen University, and Ph.D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1992). After his graduation, he joined the chemistry faculty at Sun Yat-sen University since July 1992, and was promoted to full professor at the same university since 1995. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. His current research interest is synthesis, structures and properties of functional coordination polymers and metal compounds, especially the porous and magnetic coordination materials. He has published 300 papers.