Zuoren Nie

Dr. Zuoren Nie is a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), professor and President at Beijing University of Technology. Dr. Nie currently serves as the vice chairman of Chinese Materials Research Society (C-MRS) and Nonferrous Metals Society of China (NFsoc), vice director of National Standardization Committee for Carbon Dioxide Peaking and Carbon Neutrality, vice director of the Materials Science Department of Science and Technology Committee of Chinese Ministry of Education, the committee member of the Global Alliance for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Centers, and the regional editor for the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. Dr. Nie has engaged in teaching and research work in the fields of non-ferrous metal metallurgy and materials processing for many years, devoting himself to the friendly development of the whole life cycle of materials. These contributions have been disseminated in the form of more than one hundred Chinese, U.S. and Japanese patents, and over three hundreds SCI articles. Owing to his extraordinary contributions, Dr. Nie has been awarded the prizes of National Award for Science and Technology for five times (the first accomplisher two times). He has been entitled as a National Excellent Scientist and a leading talent in the national "Ten Thousand Talents Program”, and awarded the National Labour Medal. He also received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and was approved as “extra best”.