Brief CV of HE Hong

Prof. Hong He received his doctorate (PhD) at the University of Tokyo in 1994. He had studied and worked in Japan, the United States and Canada for 11 years, and thereafter joined RCEES through the “High-level Talents Program” of the CAS in 2001. His research has been mainly focusing on fundamental and applied research in environmental catalysis and heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry, with a series of achievements in areas of diesel emission control technologies, catalytic indoor air purification and haze formation mechanism. He is the author of more than 380 peer-reviewed scientific publications, with over 12,000 citations. Prof. He is the first inventor of more than 40 patents; some of them have already been implemented. He has also written a scholarly book in Chinese, The Principles and Application of Environmental Catalysis, and two chapters in related English books. Prof. He was awarded the National Technology Invention Award (China, Second Class) in 2011, the National Science and Technology Progress Award (China, Second Class) in 2014 and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation in 2017. He was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017.

As a co-chairman, Prof. He presided over the 6th International Conference on Environmental Catalysis and launched a series of China-Japan Workshops on Environmental Catalysis and Eco-materials as a founder and organizer, which have continued for 15 years. He has delivered more than 100 plenary and keynote presentations at international and domestic conferences.

Under Prof. He’s supervision, four students have received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of CAS, and seven have been awarded the Special Prize of the President Scholarship and the Excellence Prize of the President Scholarship of CAS. Meanwhile, Prof. He received the Excellent Graduate Advisor Prize of CAS in 2005, 2006, 2011, 2013, and 2014, and was also named Outstanding Teacher in 2006.