Professor HUANG Weixin, from school of Chemistry and Materials Science of China University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), was awarded the Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a foundation established by the German government in 1860.It promotes international academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from Germany and from abroad. Every year, the foundation grants no more than 100 Humboldt Research Awards to internationally leading researchers of all disciplines for their outstanding academic achievement.

Prof. HUANG’s research field is solid surface interface chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis. His award was jointly nominated by Prof. Robert Schlogl, director of the Fritz Haber Institute and head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and Prof. Hans-Joachim Freund, former director of the Firtz Haber Institute and former head of Department of Chemical Physics.

The Humboldt Research Award will support Prof. HUANG to conduct a 6-month academic visit to the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Germany.

(Written by LU Hongyu, edited by LI Xiaoxi, USTC News Center)