Gao Song

Goa Song is a professor in chemistry and president of Sun Yat-sen University since 2021. He was president of the South China University of Technology from 2018 to 2022.

Early life Born in Anhui province in 1964, Gao studied chemistry at Peking University, China and received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in 1985, 1988, and 1991, respectively.

Career After his Ph.D., Gao became a lecturer (1990-1992), associate professor (1992-1999), and professor (since 1999) at Peking University. In 1992, Gao went to Germany to become a visitor of Aachen University of Technology, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry. In 1998–1999, he went to University of Hong Kong as a visiting scholar. He became Dean of the Department of Chemistry at Peking University in 2006. From 2013 to 2017, he was a vice president at Peking University. In 2018, he was appointed President of South China University of Technology.

Research Gao has undertaken research on inorganic chemistry and molecular magnetism. He has published over 300 papers in these topics.

Awards In 2007, Gao was elected a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK.