Distinctions and Awards
1. Jun. 2022, Special Prize of Liaoning Province Graduate Teaching Achievement Award.
2. May. 2022, Second Prize of Liaoning Province General Higher Education (Undergraduate) Teaching Achievement Award.
3. Sep. 2021, Innovation Award of the Hou Debang Chemical Technology Award of the Chinese Chemical Society.
4. Apr. 2021, Honorary title of Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker in Liaoning.
5. Mar. 2021, Selected as an international VEBLEO society organization FELLOW.
6. Dec. 2020, Zhen Zhao was selected as The Academic Leading Geese in Liaoning Province
7. Dec. 2020, Liaoning Provincial Higher Education (Undergraduate) Teaching Achievement Award, First prize: “Exploration and practice of the course ideological and political model of Three Natures in Unity for chemistry in local normal colleges”, Zhen Zhao, Xinyu Li, Zhan Yu, Na Wei, Dongfang Liu, Fuzhi Ban, Guanghong Zhao, Xuehua Yu.
8. Dec. 2020, 2020 China Rare Earth Science and Technology Award, First prize (Basic Research): “Rare earth catalysts for efficient purification of typical air pollutants”, Zhen Zhao, Jian Liu, Yuechang Wei, Junjiang Zhu, Xuehua Yu, Chunming Xu, Yunkun Zhao, Guizhen Zhang, Xiaokun He, Xiangguang Yang, Hong He, Weiyu Song, Jianmei Li, Guiyuan Jiang, Aijun Duan.
9. Nov. 2020, was selected as Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker of Liaoning Province.
10. Sep. 2020, Science and Technology Award of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China, First prize (Basic Research Achievement Award): “High-efficiency catalytic purification technology of PM2.5 from motor vehicle exhaust emissions”, Zhen Zhao, Jian Liu, Yuechang Wei, Xuehua Yu, Chunming Xu, Guiyuan Jiang, Weiyu Song, Aijun Duan.
11. Sep. 2019, Distinguished Award 2019 for Novel Materials and their Synthesis (IUPAC).
12. Mar. 2019, was selected as Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker of Shenyang Normal University.
13. Jan. 2019, was appointed as the leader of the “Environmental Catalysis and Environmental Material” of Danian Huang-Style Teacher Team in Universities of Liaoning Province.
14. Dec. 2018, was appointed as the leader of the “Catalysis for Energy and Environment” Innovation Research Team in Universities of Liaoning Province.
15. Sep. 2018, Rare Earth Resource Utilization Science & Technology Award, in recognition of excellence research performance in the field of rare earth resource utilization in the 5th International Symposium on Rare Earth Resource (ISRERU-5)
16. Apr. 2018, was selected as Outstanding Talents of Shenyang.
17. Jan. 2018, was selected as “Climbing Scholar” in Colleges and Universities of Liaoning Province.
18. Nov. 2017, Technology Invention Award of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, Second Prize: “Catalytic technology for reduction of nitrogen oxides at high particulate concentration”, Jian Liu, Zhen Zhao, Yuechang Wei, Fuhong Yu, Peng Zhang, Hong Wang, Weiyu Song.
19. 2014-2019, has been selected and listed in the China’s Highly cited Scholars (Chemical Engineering) by Elsevier Company for six consecutive times.
20. Dec. 2012, Expert with special government allowance of the State Council
21. Oct. 2012, was appointed as a Distinguished Professor “Changjiang Scholars Program”.
22. Aug. 2010, Outstanding scientific research achievements of China University of Petroleum (Beijing), First prize (Basic Research).
23. Dec. 2009, was selected as a state-level candidate for New Century Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Project of China.
24. Apr. 1998-Mar. 2000, NEDO research fellowship supported by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan.
25. Mar. 1997-Mar. 1998, AIST postdoctoral fellowship supported by Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) of Japan.
26. Oct. 1996, YI LI DA award of Chinese Academy of Science, for outstanding doctoral graduate student.
27. Jul. 1996, First-class scholarship (PhD) of Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences.