Awards and achievements

Congratulations to Dr Haijiao Lu and Dr Miaoqiang Lyu, who have each received a 2026 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award.

Congratulations to Dr Haijiao Lu and Dr Rijia Lin, who have both been awarded Australian Research Council Future Fellowships.

Professor Lianzhou Wang's team including researchers Dr Yang Bai and Mengmeng Hao have set a new world efficiency record for solar cells using the innovative ‘quantum dot’ approach.

Dr Run Zhang receives an Emerging Leadership Grant through the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for research into “Monitoring inflammation through quantitation of redox-mediated macrophage polarization"

Drs Mu Xiao, Yuxiang Hu and Songcan Wang, all from Professor Lianzhou Wang’s research group, were awarded the prestigious 2018 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad from the China Scholarship Council.