International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEAS

Academician

Wei HUANG

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Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Wei Huang is a distinguished Chinese materials scientist whose research has focused on organic electronics, flexible electronics, and printed electronics. Born in 1963, he received his Ph.D. from Peking University and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge and the National University of Singapore. He was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He currently serves as Chief Scientist of the National Basic (Frontier) Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Director of the National Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics, and Chief Scientist of the School of Flexible Electronics at Sun Yat-sen University. He has served as Chief Scientist under the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the National 973 Programme, the National Key Research and Development Programme, and the National Transformative Technology Special Project. He also serves as President of the Federation of Engineering Institutions of Asia and the Pacific (FEIAP), and as an Executive Committee Member and Senior Advisor to the President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO). He holds honorary doctorates from the Russian Academy of Sciences, the University of Sheffield, and the University of Johannesburg, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Optical Society of America, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, and several Chinese academic societies.

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Professor Huang’s research has encompassed organic electronics, plastic electronics, bioelectronics, printed electronics, energy electronics, health electronics, intelligent electronics, and flexible electronics, with particular emphasis on molecular design, device physics, and large-area manufacturing of flexible electronic systems. Through national major research programmes and international scientific collaboration, he has contributed to the development of the theoretical and engineering foundations of flexible electronics and to their application in emerging electronic systems. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Research, a flagship journal of the China Association for Science and Technology; npj Flexible Electronics, a Nature Publishing Group partner journal; and FlexMat, a Wiley partner journal. He has authored more than 1,000 peer-reviewed publications and has an h-index exceeding 100. His research has received two National Natural Science Awards (Second Prize), four First Prizes of the Ministry of Education Higher Education Institution Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award (Natural Science), the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Science and Technology Progress, six Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Awards, three First Prizes of the Chinese Institute of Electronics Natural Science Award, and two First Prizes of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation Science and Technology Award, among other distinctions. His achievements have twice been selected among the “Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances in Chinese Higher Education Institutions” and the “Top Ten Research Advances in Chinese Semiconductors”. Collectively, these contributions reflect a sustained research programme connecting materials science, electronic device engineering, and large-area manufacturing with emerging applications in flexible electronics, health technologies, and energy systems.