Prof. Saifang Huang is a Principal Investigator in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (SMSE), Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (JUST), qualified as a supervisor of PhD and Master students. He has been awarded with Jiangsu-Appointed Special Professorship and several other awards, and serves as a scientific assessor for neutron beamtime applications at ANSTO, Australia, Catalyst Leaders applications at MBIE, New Zealand, and Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Award, China, and also as a regular reviewer for 20+ scientific journals in the fields of materials science and chemistry.

Prof. Huang received two PhD degrees in the same year of 2015 from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and University of Auckland. He has strong expertise in the fields of materials science and engineering, inorganic chemistry, crystallography, neutron/synchrotron science and technology, serving a member of several learned societies including Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Society of New Zealand, and the American Ceramic Society. He has strong research outcomes, with 60+ publications in top journals including Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Energy Chem., J. Eur. Ceram. Soc., Chem. Eng. J., Cryst. Growth Des., and two invention patents granted.

Prof. Huang is currently leading an active research team consist of several young materials scientists and a group of postgraduate students, allocated with dedicated laboratory space, facilities and adequate funding support for conducting research in the topic of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices.