Junjie Zhang (aka Zhang Junjie), a postdoctoral fellow at the State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences of the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), has won a Silver award at the recent 2nd China Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition final in Yantai, Shandong province, the private university said in a statement yesterday.
The final concluded on October 28, the statement noted, adding that the contest is “the largest, highest level, and most extensive postdoctoral competition in China” since the postdoctoral system’s implementation.
Zhang, who is engaged in research on materials science, won a Silver award in the contest’s New Energy and New Materials Group for the proposal “High Quality Regenerated Aluminium Alloy Manufacturing Complete Technology Research and Development”, with the project jointly guided and completed by MUST Associate Prof. André Antunes and University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) Prof. Zhang Shengen, according to the statement.
The postdoctoral fellow conducted research on “the collaborative disposal and resource utilisation of multi-source solid waste” in response to the challenges of waste aluminium, municipal solid waste incineration fly ash, and severe pollution of secondary aluminium ash, the statement noted.
The statement added that Zhang has published over 20 papers and applied for 10 Chinese patents, with five greenlighted already.
This year’s competition saw a total of 6,202 postdoctoral projects and 25,000 applicants signing up, the statement said, adding that a total of 55 Gold awards, 109 Silver awards, and 164 Bronze awards were granted after preliminary selection, recommendation and national finals, according to the statement.
This handout photo recently taken and provided by the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) yesterday shows postdoctoral fellow Junjie Zhang posing with his Silver prize trophy.
