Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhang Jianquan, Professor of Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering
Dean, South China University of Technology - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Joint Research Institute

He was born in Qianjiang, Hubei Province in 1957. He received his bachelor's degree from South China University of Technology in 1982, master's degree and Doctor's degree from Kyoto University in 1985 and 1988. He did postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto. In July 1994, he joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In 2015, he was approved as the director of the Hong Kong Branch Center with the support of the National Engineering and Technology Research Center of Human Tissue Function Reconstruction established by South China University of Technology. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013. Currently, he is the Chief scientist of the 973 Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Project leader of the Basic Science Center of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the leader of the introduced Innovation Research Team of Guangdong Province, and the Director of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Luminous Materials and Devices of South China University of Technology. And editor-in-chief of Materials Chemistry Frontiers, a joint journal of the Chinese Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Professor Benzhong Tang has long been committed to the application of organic optoelectronic functional materials in biomedical materials and optoelectronic diagnosis and treatment. Aggregate Induced Luminescence (AIE) ". The material system and its applications in the field of optoelectronic functional materials and bioimaging have been selected as the second hot spot of chemistry and materials science in the 2015 Frontiers of Scientific Research jointly published by the Center for Literature and Information of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Thomson Reuters.