HUANG Jiaxing, a USTC Alumni of 9503, was awarded Guggenheim Fellowshipon April 10th, which was announced in New York Times by John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is the only winner in Chemistry field this year.
HUANG Jiaxingwas admitted to USTC in 1995 and received his B.S. degree in chemical physics from USTC in 2000 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 2004. Hemade his first independent materials discovery in 1999 as an undergraduate in Yi Xie’s lab, combining chemical reactions (found in two separate textbooks) to synthesize hollow spheres made of semiconductor nanoparticles.After moving to UCLA for doctoral studies, he joined the laboratory of Richard Kaner. His paper published in 2003 (in the Journal of the American Chemical Society) has become one of the most highly cited papers in the century-old history of polymerpolyaniline. Next, with the support of a Miller Research Fellowship, Huang joined YANG Peidong’s lab at Berkeley to carry out postdoctoral research. In 2007, he became an assistant professorof materials science and engineering at Northwestern University and was promoted to associate professor in 2013. His research interests are in material chemistry, processing, and manufacturing. Examples include two-dimensional (2D) soft materials, organic nanocrystals, and metal nanostructures. He is interested in the application of these materials in energy and sustainability and as a platform for materials education. Huang has been honored with the IUPAC Young Chemists Prize, an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Coincidentally, twodoctoral students graduated from Huang’s group last year, Jaemyung Kim and LUO Jiayan won the award for the best doctoral thesis in 2014 awarded by the Elsevier journalCarbon. Usually, there is only one award winner. However, two winners both graduated from Huang’s group were awarded this year.
Guggenheim Fellowships, often characterized as "midcareer" awards, are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.The Foundation receives between 3,500 and 4,000 applications andapproximately 200 Fellowships are awarded each year. In 2014, 178 winners in the age range from 29 to 77 working in North America from 56 subjects and 83 academic institutions in arts, humanities, social science and natural science were awarded.
(YANG Yating, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, USTC News Center)
