Shock 35-year-old to become the world's top scientist! This Young Man of Zhanjiang changed his life against the sky and wrote a legendary life

On October 28-29, 2021, at the World Science and Technology Youth Forum jointly organized by Hangzhou Future Science and Technology City and MIT Science and Technology Review, the new MIT Science and Technology Review "35 People Under 35 Years Old" Asia-Pacific list announced that Professor Chen Chaoji of the School of Resources and Environmental Sciences of Wuhan University was selected

It is understood that Chen Chaoji, a 35-year-old who is a resident of Beijia Village, an affiliated town in Leizhou City, is little known that he almost became an apprentice at a pork stall, but he seized the precious opportunity to return to campus and embarked on a hungry path of study and achieved amazing results from a poor teenager to a professor at Wuhan University and a top scientist in the world

Chen Chaoji participated in the World Science and Technology Youth Forum.

"Dad, give me two months"✦

Chen Chaoji was born in 1987 in a poor peasant family in Beijia Village, Fucheng Town, Leizhou, and when he was in elementary school, he had a top score in mathematics and participated in a math competition, and he thought that he would work hard like Hua Luogeng to be a mathematician Chen Chaoji went to the sea to help the family after doing farm work, and at night, his quiet self-study time under the kerosene lamp became the most fulfilling moment of his day In June 2002, his father suggested that he go to the city to learn to sell pork with his cousin, listening to his father's words Chen Chaoji sat on the stone pier in front of his house and his tears could not stop flowing

Chen Chaoji compares logs with bleached wood chips.

At this time, Fa Xiao Gao Cunxiu pointed out another possible choice direction for Chen Chaoji: after more than two months, he could pass the junior third class examination of Leizhou Fucheng Middle School and had well-meaning people willing to help him continue to study on campus

Chen Chaoji decided to fight a battle against the water and said to his father: "Dad, give me more than two months to study, if I can't get into the third grade of Fucheng Middle School, I will do as you say." Father agreed

The test results came out Chen Chaoji went to school in the exam as he wished, and in 2003, Chen Chaoji was admitted in advance by the experimental class of Zhanjiang No. 2 Middle School due to his excellent grades

"We can't live up to the efforts we made"✦

After being admitted to the university, Chen Chaoji suddenly relaxed the first semester of the first semester of the freshman year exam Ended Chen Chaoji's grades ranked 8th from the bottom in the class", "Those efforts that studied hard day and night before, in exchange for the opportunity to enter the university, should not be wasted like this." Chen Chaoji, who suddenly woke up, rushed to catch up

In 2010

Chen Chaoji obtained the qualification of directly studying for a doctorate at Huazhong University of Science and Technology with excellent results. During his phD studies, he studied under Professor Huang Yunhui and Professor Hu Xianluo, famous scholars in the field of energy storage, and engaged in the research of energy storage materials and devices.

In 2015

After graduating from Dr. Chen Chaoji, he joined the postdoctoral research of the university, and later went to the research group of Professor Hu Liangbing, a well-known scholar in the field of wood and cellulose at the University of Maryland Park, to engage in postdoctoral research, focusing on the structural design and functional utilization of wood and cellulose materials.

May 2021

Chen Chaoji taught at the School of Resources and Environmental Sciences of Wuhan University and became a professor and doctoral supervisor. He hopes to cultivate more talents and make a modest contribution to the country's sustainable development and "carbon neutrality".

Ranked among the top scientists✦

Chen Chaoji is currently working in the School of Resources and Environmental Sciences of Wuhan University, which is committed to solving the material-energy-environment problems facing sustainable development with natural materials

Chen Chaoji has published more than 130 SCI papers in well-known academic journals at home and abroad, including more than 80 papers by the first author (including the co-first author) or corresponding author, in addition, he has applied for 4 US patents and 1 Chinese patent, and his research results have been repeatedly highlighted by Nature, Science, MIT Science Review, BBC, CNN, Voice of America, New York Post, Scientific American, Xinhua Net, Times of India and other magazines and media. Selected into Stanford University's "Top 2% Of the World's Top Scientists" 2019 and 2020 lists and 1960-2020 lifetime lists, 2021 MIT Technology Review Asia Pacific "35 People Under 35 Years old in scientific and technological innovation", "2021 China's cutting-edge scientific and technological figures outstanding impact award"...

With these honors, Chen Chaoji has become one of the world's top scientists

Chen Chaoji

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