On June 11th, 2026, Prof. Jonathan Nitschke from the University of Cambridge visited Tsinghua University and delivered a lecture on his research. Prof. Jonathan Nitschke received his bachelor's degree from Williams College (USA) in 1995 and his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001 under the supervision of T. DonTilley. He then undertook postdoctoral studies with Jean-Mari...

In April 2026, Prof. Huaping Xu was admitted as a Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society (FCCS). Fellow is the highest membership grade of the Chinese Chemical Society, awarded to distinguished members who have made systematic and creative achievements as well as significant contributions to chemistry and related fields. Since the establishment of the Fellow system in 2019, no more than 50 Fellow...

The Tsinghua-KU Leuven Bilateral Mini-Symposium on Frontiers of Chemistry was held at Tsinghua University on March 25, 2026. Prof. Huaping Xu served as the chairman of the symposium. The event brought together distinguished researchers from both institutions. From KU Leuven, Prof. Johan Hofkens, Prof. Maarten Roeffaers, and Associate Prof. Elke Debroye delivered insightful talks. From Tsinghua Uni...

Prof. Huaping Xu delivered a plenary lecture titled "Selenium- and Tellurium-Containing Polymers" at the Annual National Polymer, held in Guangzhou from November 22nd to 26th, 2025. Ten members of his research group attended the conference. Four of them, Yuanbo Zhang, Muqing Cao, Chaowei He, and Ruihao Zhou, received the Outstanding Poster Award for their presentations.

Prof. Huaping Xu was invited to deliver a keynote lecture at the 16th International Conference on the Chemistry of Selenium and Tellurium (ICCST-16), held in Germany from August 26th to 29th, 2025. Three PhD students, Chaowei He, Shenghan Zhang, and Ruihao Zhou, also attended the conference. Chaowei He and Shenghan Zhang presented their research through short talks.  

Prof. Huaping Xu was invited to deliver a plenary lecture on Applied Materials & Interfaces Conference 2025 (AMIC 2025), scheduled for July 3-5, 2025, in Singapore.  

Prof. Huaping Xu was invited to deliver a plenary lecture on Polymers for Biomedical Applications as part of the ACS Meetings Global Virtual Symposia (GVS) Spring 2025 session, held in March 2025.