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Wu Haijun, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Xi'an Jiaotong University and his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. He has been selected for national-level young talent programs including the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas), the Shaanxi Provincial "Sanqin Talents" Young Talent Program, and the Shaanxi Qinchuangyuan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent Program. He serves as the Chief Scientist leading the "Intelligent Sensors" Young Scientist Project under the National Key R&D Program and has presided over two General Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He previously held the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellowship (awarded to only 1-3 individuals globally each year). His honors include the Charles Hatchett Award (International Award for Outstanding Achievement in Niobium Materials), the National Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, the Young Scientist Award from the Chinese Thermoelectric Society, the IFSM Young Scientist Award from the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy, and the Xiaomi Young Scholar Award. He serves as a Council Member of the Thermoelectric Materials and Applications Division of the Chinese Materials Research Society and the Micro-Nano Technology Division of the Chinese Ceramic Society. He is an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Advanced Dielectrics and a Youth Editorial Board Member for several journals under the China Excellence Action Plan for STM Journals, including Science China Materials, SusMat, InfoMat, Interdisciplinary Materials, and DeCarbon.
Focusing on the national strategic demand for high-performance electronic functional materials, his research engages in the structural design, mechanistic analysis, and performance optimization of piezoelectric and thermoelectric materials capable of force⇔electricity⇔heat environmental sensing and energy conversion. He has published approximately 100 papers as (co-)first or corresponding author, including in Science, Nature Communications (14), the Advanced Materials family (20 papers), and the Journal of the American Chemical Society (9). He has co-authored 3 additional papers in Science. His total SCI citations exceed 16,400, with citations by others around 12,700. He has 17 ESI Highly Cited Papers and an H-index of 69. He has been consecutively named a Clarivate Global Highly Cited Researcher from 2021 to 2025.
