Professor Yong Zhang

Yong Zhang is currently a Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Head of Department of Biomedical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. Before he joined CityU, he had over 20 years of working experience in Department of Biomedical Engineering at National University of Singapore (NUS). His current research interests include nanobiophotonics, nanomedicine, and microfluidic devices. Professor Zhang has authored over 300 peer-reviewed research papers in international journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, Nature Protocols, PNAS, Advanced Materials, Chemical Reviews and Chemical Society Reviews. He has delivered more than 60 Plenary/keynote/invited talks in prestigious international conferences. He has won numerous research awards such as Humboldt Research Award and IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of Singapore Academy of Engineering, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and Highly Cited Researcher amongst the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds named by Clarivate Analytics.


ResearcherID: F-2803-2010 
Google Scholar: Yong Zhang
  
AWARDS & HONOURS
Fellow, Singapore Academy of Engineering (FSAEng)
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
Global Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics)
World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier BV
Humboldt Research Award, Germany
DAAD Scholarship, Germany
IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards (twice), Institute of Engineers (IES) Singapore
NUS Provost’s Chair Professorship
Faculty Research Award, Faculty of Engineering, NUS
NUS Young Investigator Award
NML Researcher Award
Erwin Schrodinger Society Poster Award (1st Prize)
Outstanding Mentor Award, Science Mentorship Programmes, Gifted Education Branch (GEB), Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE)


EDITORIAL APPOINTMENT
Microchimica Acta (IF 6.408), Senior Associate Editor
Chemical Society Reviews (IF 60.615), Advisory Board Member  

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