Hong Kong News On October 3, the Hong Kong University Committee stated that after consultation with the Academic Affairs Committee, it was unanimously decided that Zhang Xiang would be the principal for five years in the next year, that is, his term of office will be until July 2028.
It is understood that Hong Kong University President Zhang Xiang took office since July 2018, and his term of office was originally scheduled to be in 2023. Hong Kong University Committee Chairman Li Guozhang sent a letter to teachers, students and alumni today saying that after consulting with the Academic Affairs Committee, the school committee unanimously decided that Zhang Xiang would be the principal for five years in the next year, that is, his term of office will be until July 2028.
letter stated that the school committee considers future challenges and development and believes that the continuity of university leadership is very important. Hong Kong University has taken it to the next level under the leadership of Zhang Xiang in the past three years, and is able to cope with the crisis. The university has also performed excellently in its research and teaching during the COVID-19 epidemic. I believe that he can continue to play his leadership and be able to elevate the University to a higher level. The letter also mentioned that the University of Hong Kong continues to carry out a number of pioneering strategic projects, many of which were initiated by Zhang Xiang, including the "Tech Landmar" project of the Pok Fulin Campus, the Development of the University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Campus and the Global Professor Recruitment Program.
Zhang Xiang, born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China in December 1963, is an optoelectronicist, an academician of the National Academy of Engineering, a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Central Academy of Research, and the 16th president of the University of Hong Kong. He was a chair professor of the Ge Shouren Foundation at the University of California, Berkeley and director of the Center for Nanoscience and Engineering.
Zhang Xiang received a bachelor's degree from the School of Physics of Nanjing University in 1985; a master's degree from the School of Physics of Nanjing University in 1988; a doctorate from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 1996; an assistant professor at Penn State University in 1996; since 1999, he has served as an associate professor and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; in 2003, he served as director of the Center for Nanoscience and Engineering Research of the National Science Foundation; in 2004, he joined the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, and served as an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute of Applied Science and Technology, and was promoted to professor in 2005; the nano-invisible cloak invented in 2008 was listed as one of the top ten scientific discoveries in the world by Time magazine; in 2010, he was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering. ; From 2014 to 2016, he served as director of the Materials Science Department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015; and officially took office as the 16th president of the University of Hong Kong in July 2018.
Zhang Xiang's research mainly focuses on nanoscience and technology, material physics, photonics and biotechnology.
(Reporter Lin Hairun of China Infrastructure News Agency, Hong Kong)
