Zongwei Cai#
| Membership Number: | 6488 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | http://chem.hkbu.edu.hk/cai |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8724-7684 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Chair Professor in Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
- 2014 - present “Changjiang Scholar” Chair Professor (Adjunct), China
- 2014 - 2015 Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Florida International University, USA
- 2013 - present Director, State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, HKBU
- 2008 - 2018 Vice President, German Alumni Association of Hong Kong
- 2007 - 2011 Head, Department of Chemistry, HKBU
- 2003 - present Director, Dioxin Analysis Laboratory, HKBU
- 1997 - 2001 Investigator, Bioanalysis and Drug Metabolism, Glaxo-Wellcome Co., USA
- 1994 - 1996 Research Assistant Professor, Water Center, University of Nebraska, USA
- 1990 - 1991 Environmental Chemist, Department of Chemistry, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany
- 1986 - 1987 DAAD Scholarship and Visitor, Department of Chemistry, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Persistent organic pollutants
- Analytical chemistry
- Environmental toxicology
- Environmental chemistry
- Pollution
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2020 - 2022 The World’s most highly cited researcher in Stanford University’s list of the world top 2% scientists
- 2020 Invited Principle Author for the 3rd Asia-Pacific Regional Report on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Monitoring under the Stockholm Convention by United Nation Environmental Programs (UNEP)
- 2020 Top 100,000 scientists in the World and top 10,000 scientists in China according to Google Scholar Metrics
- 2020 The World Power List of Analytical Scientists (https://theanalyticalscientist.com/power-list/2020
)
- 2020 Special prize of Science and Technology Award, China Association for Instrumental Analysis
- 2018 Award of Outstanding Contribution for Removing Persistent Organic Pollutants, Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences
- 2018 The 2nd Prize of Science Research Achievement Award, Ministry of Education of China
- 2016 The 1st prize of Science and Technology Award, China Association for Instrumental Analysis
- 2015 Invited Principle Author for 2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Report on POPs Monitoring under the Stockholm Convention by UNEP
- 2014 “Changjiang Scholar” Chair Professor Award, Ministry of Education of China
- 2011 The 2nd Prize of Nature Science Award of China
- 2009 Invited Principle Author for 1st Asia-Pacific Regional Report on POPs Monitoring under the Stockholm Convention by UNEP
- 2003 Distinguished Young Scholar (Oversea), National Nature Science Foundation of China
