Zhang Liqun (Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering)

Former Vice president of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, now president and deputy Party secretary of South China University of Technology, elected academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2021, director of Elastomer Materials Energy Saving and Resource Recycling Engineering Center of Ministry of Education, and director of Technical Committee of China Tire Industry Technology Innovation Alliance. For a long time, it has been engaged in scientific and technological research, technological innovation and transformation work in the field of rubber in the first line. Facing the major national needs, it is committed to the three research directions of high performance theory and technology of rubber materials, green rubber materials and special functional rubber materials. It has cultivated and established a high-level research team and made outstanding achievements in basic research and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Remarkable economic and social benefits have been achieved.