{"id":586926,"date":"2026-07-15T13:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/586926\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:02:13","slug":"award-winning-chemist-zhang-wei-leaves-us-to-join-chinas-great-bay-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/586926\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning chemist Zhang Wei leaves US to join China\u2019s Great Bay University"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zhang Wei, former chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Colorado Boulder, has returned to China to join Great Bay University (GBU)<\/a> as a full-time faculty member.<\/p>\n

Zhang, who will be the deputy dean and chair professor of GBU\u2019s physical sciences school, attended a hiring ceremony at the university\u2019s Songshan Lake campus in Dongguan, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on July 2.<\/p>\n

He was presented with the appointment letter by GBU president Tian Gang, who is also a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n

Why are more Chinese scientists leaving the US to return to China?<\/p>\n

\u201cProfessor Zhang has long been engaged in scientific research and discipline construction at overseas high-level research universities,\u201d Tian said at the ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that such an internationally outstanding young talent has chosen to come to the university is not only a recognition of the school\u2019s educational philosophy and development direction, but also further strengthens the university\u2019s confidence in building a high-level teaching staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zhang said he was motivated to return to China by family and research opportunities. The death of his father in 2020, and pandemic travel restrictions \u201chad a profound effect\u201d on him, he said in an email.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that my mother is getting older, I hope that in the next stage of my life, I can be closer to her and spend more time with her,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zhang Wei, former chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Colorado Boulder, has returned to China…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[77],"tags":[225710,19221,381,4563,118203,18,249127,249130,4693,19,17,17055,24390,133,249129,19453,249128,86589],"class_list":["post-586926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-alfred-sloan","tag-carbon-capture","tag-china","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-dongguan","tag-eire","tag-gas-separation","tag-great-bay-university","tag-guangdong","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-massachusetts-institute-of-technology","tag-peking-university","tag-science","tag-sloan-research-fellow","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-tian-gang","tag-university-of-colorado-boulder"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116924130657185988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}