The University of Macau (UM) announced in a statement yesterday that two of its scholars, Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) Associate Professor Dai Yunlu and Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) Assistant Professor Hao Tianwei, were awarded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macao).
According to the statement, UM scholars have made the list every year since the fund was first open for applications from young scholars at eight universities in Hong Kong and Macau in 2019, with 11 being awarded the fund since.
The statement noted that the fund is a national talent development programme aiming to support young scientists with “outstanding achievements in basic research” by letting them choose an innovative research topic of their interest.
It also aims to promote the growth of young scholars in science and technology to become academic research’s backbone and have a chance to reach the forefront of science and technology worldwide, the statement added.
The statement said that since Prof Dai joined UM in 2018, he has published 30 Science Citation Index (SCI) papers as first or corresponding author, with 25 papers with a 10+ impact factor and two articles on the ESI Highly Cited Papers list. He was listed in the World’s Top 2 percent of Scientists in 2020, among other awards.
Prof Dai’s awarded project “Metal-polyphenol Coordination-based Biomaterials” focuses on metal-polyphenol coordination-based biomaterials’ development and their clinical translation and applications, according to the statement.
Meanwhile, the statement noted that Prof Hao, with a focus on the biotransformation of pollutants in wastewater and wastewater resource recovery, has published 53 papers as first or corresponding author and has obtained eight patents in the United States, Japan, and China. Hao has also received various awards and recognitions.
Prof Hao’s awarded project “Waster Treatment and Resource Recovery” proposes a solution for the recovery of high-value microbial metabolites and the efficient removal of pollutants in wastewater, the statement pointed out.
This undated handout photo provided by the University of Macau (UM) yesterday shows an unidentified person in the public university’s lab.
