Award-winning chemist Zhang Wei leaves US to join China’s Great Bay University
Chemist Zhang Wei has left his position at the University of Colorado Boulder to join Great Bay University in China as a deputy dean. He cited both professional research opportunities and a desire to be closer to his family as primary motivations for the move.
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The movement of high-level academic talent between the US and China reflects broader trends in global scientific competition and personal migration patterns.
Zhang Wei, former chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Colorado Boulder, has returned to China to join Great Bay University (GBU) as a full-time faculty member.
Zhang, who will be the deputy dean and chair professor of GBU’s physical sciences school, attended a hiring ceremony at the university’s Songshan Lake campus in Dongguan, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on July 2.
He was presented with the appointment letter by GBU president Tian Gang, who is also a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
“Professor Zhang has long been engaged in scientific research and discipline construction at overseas high-level research universities,” Tian said at the ceremony.
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