Flexible Electronics+”: Empowering Global Innovation in Disruptive Technologies for a Sustainable Future

INVITATION

The Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg, Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala, in collaboration with the Division for Internationalisation and the UJ Library, invites you to the first virtual “International Leadership Platform” titled: Flexible Electronics+”: Empowering Global Innovation in Disruptive Technologies for a Sustainable Future

Date: Wednesday 06 July 2022

Time: 11:30 to 12:30 (SAST)
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/91064901653

About the Speaker: Professor HUANG Wei is an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (PAM),ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology (AAET), Pakistan Academy of Sciences, and International Academy for Europe and Asia (IAEA). Currently, he is director of the Academic Commission of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China. He also holds the position of Chief Scientist of the Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, NPU. Professor Huang is the current President of the Federation of Engineering Institutions of Asia and the Pacific (FEIAP). Professor HUANG is also a Visiting Professor of the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, and Honorary Professor or Adjunct Professor of Peking University, University of Wollongong (Australia), Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nankai University, Xiamen University, and several other institutions.

He has published more than 900 papers on world leading scientific journals such as Nature, Nature Electronics, Nature Energy, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Nature
Communications, Research etc., with over 100,000 international citations and an h-index of 160. He is the most cited Researcher in the field of material science and chemistry (Clarivate Analytics). He has
held over 360 patents in the USA, Singapore, and China, etc.

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