Prof. Guang Yang is the EPNOE ambassadress in China​

On the wake of the desire to establish new extra-european connections and start more collaborations, the EPNOE Executive Board voted unanimously for the introduction of Prof. Guang Yang as EPNOE ambassadress in China.

Guang Yang received a PhD degree in Chemistry from Wuhan University, and she is now a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China). Her current research focuses on the development of nanocellulose-based functional materials, design and fabrication of novel nano-drug transporters, 3D printing, nano-assembly of ordered materials, and tissue engineering.

Among other things, she is serving as the Deputy Director of the Cellulose division of the Chinese Chemical Society, Deputy Director of the Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Committee of Chinese Bioengineering Society, and as council member of several committees, including the Nanocellulose and Materials Committee of China Paper Association, the Polymer Materials Analysis Technology and Characterization Method Committee of Chinese Chemical Society, the Biomedical Polymer Materials Branch of China Biomaterials Society. She is an editorial board member of Carbohydrate Polymers, Polymers, Engineered Science, Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials, etc.

She is Stanford University ‘s Top 2 % of Global Scientists, and has authored more than 200 publications in high impact international peer-reviewed journals (h index = 54, citations: 10681 based on Google Scholar), including  Progress in Materials Science, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Science, Advanced Functional Materials, Biotechnology Advances, Materials Horizons, Biomaterials, ACS nano, Bioactive Materials, Nano-Micro Letters, Small, etc. She edited 3 books, authored several chapters, and registered more than 30 authorised patents.