It was past dusk and a group of ShanghaiTech students were prowling around in the dark at Shanghai’s Chenshan Botanical Garden using only their smart phones to light the way. Walking through a grassy area, they came upon a surprising sight. The two hedgehogs they found out on an evening stroll were probably just as surprised to see the students, who typically spend more time in the lab than in th...

Under the support of the National Key Research and Development Program titled “High stability, full spectrum, high-efficiency solar cells materials exploration and device realization,” the School of Physical Science Technology’s Ning Zhijun Group explored Lead Sulfide (PbS) as the active layer and developed highly efficient inverted structural quantum dot (QDs) solar cells. Recently, their work...

On January 12, Steven Chu, the 1997 Nobel Prize winner in Physics and former US Secretary of Energy, visited ShanghaiTech delivered the ShanghaiTech Lecture on The role of nanoscience and electrochemistry in sustainability and biology to teachers and students as well as nearly one hundred high school students from eight middle schools in Shanghai who were specially invited.Professor Chu, who is al...

These days, virtual reality is red hot, with Forbes proclaiming 2016 as “Year One for VR in China” as the sector picks up the pace and begins to grow here. With Alibaba, Xiaomi, HTC, Chukong, Shanda, and Tencent embracing the technology, VR looks to have an exciting future in China. Technode reports that total VR investment in 2015 and 2016 reached 4 billion RMB ($593 million USD).As usual,...

ShanghaiTech Vice President Professor Gong Jinkang and Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics Deputy Directory Professor Tai Renzhong gave opening remarks. They welcomed scientists from all over the world to ShanghaiTech University and wished them an enjoyable stay in Shanghai and a fruitful experience at the workshop. A poster from German Erlangen-Nürnberg scientist Olaf Brummel was awarded ...

A collaborative research project between Yan Shichao, an assistant Professor in School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University and Professor Sebastian Loth at Max Planck Institute in Germany discovered the spin-based NDR effect in antiferromagnetically coupled few-atom spin chains. Their research paper on the “Dynamical Negative Differential Resistance in Antiferromagne...

On December 4th, a high-level delegation from Google visited ShanghaiTech, led by CEO Sundar Pichai, and met with President Jiang Mianheng. President Jiang welcomed them expressed his wish to explore new possibilities of cooperation with Google.Vice President and Provost Yin Jie presented an overview of ShanghaiTech. Sun Yuhan, Director of Key Laboratory of Low-Carbon Conversion Science & Engi...

On December 7, a delegation representing Italian universities and industries visited ShanghaiTech. Headed by Professor Silvio Aime, Deputy Rector for Research and Director of Biotechnology Department, University of Turin, delegates included Francesca Natale, industrial Partnership Officer, University of Turin; Fuvio Uggeri, Research Center Director of Bracco Imaging; Luigi Ricciardi, CEO of Menari...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Jia Chen in the School of Life Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, Dr. Li Yang in the CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Bin Shen in the State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine in the Department of Histology and Embryology at Nanjing Medical University has revealed that APOBEC3 induces...

A ShanghaiTech delegation headed by President Jiang has recently returned from a European tour of universities and research institutions, including Leiden University, Royal Dutch Shell, Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, University of Leuven,RWTH Aachen University, Juelich Research Center, Heidelberg University, German Cancer Research Center, European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Swiss F...

Hi I’m Ding Peng, I’m a senior student in SIST, major in computer science.Geek Pie is a tech-oriented association led by students and operated by students. Almost every year almost every Hackathon will see some teams from Geek Pie. You will find the room 203 is always open and the lights never turn off during the night, especially during the final time. You can even sleep here. You can easily fi...

SIAIS hosted a successful 2017 ShanghaiTech-SIAIS BioForum at ShanghaiTech’s brand-new conference center from November 13th to 16th.In the opening ceremony, ShanghaiTech Vice President and Provost Yin Jie and chairman of 2017 BioForum and BBRC editor Professor Ernesto Carafoli delivered opening addresses. Yin Jie welcomed the guests and introduced ShanghaiTech’s development, current situati...

At 1:30 pm EST on November 13, 2017, the 2017 Global Finals of the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) came to a close at Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts. ShanghaiTech’s team had an outstanding finish by winning the Gold Medal, Best Hardware special award and were nominated for four other awards: Best Foundational Advance Project Nomination, Best Educa...

The 5th annual iHuman Forum, hosted by the iHuman Institute was successfully held at ShanghaiTech’s brand-new conference center on November 7-8th. The theme of the forum was "Imaging across the scales & Modeling supercomputer." The goal was to bring together scholars in the area of imaging across the molecular, cellular, and human scale, as well as gather great minds in th...