TEHRAN – Two foreign plans from Malaysian and Chinese scholars have been selected as winners of the 39th Khwarizmi International Award.
This year, over 500 articles were submitted, of which two foreign and seven Iranian plans were selected as the top articles, IRNA reported.
Zainuriah Hassan from the University of Science and Technology of Malaysia took part in the 39th Khwarizmi International Award with ‘Innovative Advances in Wide Band-Gap Semiconductor Materials and Devices’.
She and her team set up an advanced laboratory named NOR for Nano-Optolectronics Research and Technology at the School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Now the NOR laboratory has received accreditation as a Center of Excellence in Research, a status awarded to the Institute of Nano Optoelectronics Research and Technology (INOR) by the Ministry of Education in 2015.
Zainuriah has also been featured by Thomson Reuters as one of the Accomplished USM Researchers on ResearcherID, as well as received the recognition as Top Research Scientist Malaysia (TRSM) in 2013, and was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia in 2016.
In 2019, she received the Ohio University Notable Alumni Award, which is a very significant recognition by her alma mater for her broad career accomplishments and valuable contributions to Ohio University and the College of Arts and Sciences. She was mentioned as a notable alumna who ‘Pioneers Scientific Advances in US and Malaysia’.
Qichun Zhang is affiliated with City University of Hong Kong in China and has contributed extensively to research in Engineering and Materials Science.
He won this year’s award for the project Covalent Organic Polymers (COPs) and Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs), with a significant emphasis on their use in energy-related devices.
Zhang obtained his B.S. at Nanjing University in China in 1992 and his M.S. degree in physical organic chemistry (organic solid lab) at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1998, and in organic chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (USA).
He completed his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at the University of California, Riverside in 2007. He then joined Professor Mercouri G. Kanatzidis’s group at Northwestern University as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2007–2008). In 2009, he joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore) as an assistant professor.
From 2009 to 2020, he was an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He joined City University of Hong Kong in 2020 as a full professor. Zhang was named a highly cited researcher by Clarivate for 2023 and 2024. He has published over 632 papers and 25 patents.
Key topics of Khwarizmi International Award included industrial and technology management, water management, agriculture and natural resources, information technology (IT) and software engineering, biotechnology and basic medical sciences, metallurgical and metallurgy engineering, new energies, digital economy development, mechanical engineering, artificial intelligence, electrical and computer engineering, mechatronics, aerospace engineering, civil engineering, architecture and urban planning, chemistry technology, nanotechnology, environment, basic sciences, and art.
In 1987, the leading Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST), affiliated to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, decided to institute an award, which acknowledges the outstanding achievements in the field of science and technology.
IROST proposed the creation of the Khwarizmi Award in memory of Abu Jafar Mohammad Ibn Mousa Khwarizmi, the great Iranian Mathematician and Astronomer (770-840 C.E).
In 1987, the first session of the Khwarizmi Award called for Iranian nationals to present their outstanding contribution, invention, or innovation.
The fifth session of the Khwarizmi Award saw the creation of the foreign section, and the Khwarizmi International Award became international.
Held annually, the Khwarizmi International Award seeks to recognize the efforts made by researchers, innovators, and inventors from all over the world and to appreciate their invaluable achievements and contributions to various fields of science and technology.
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