Stanford University has recently released the list of the World's Top 2% Scientists 2023. Sixteen professors from Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT) were named on the list.

The "Career-Long Impact List" includes 14 members from GTIIT faculty team:

Prof. Aaron Ciechanover (Special Envoy of the Technion President to GTIIT);

Prof. Dganit Danino (Biotechnology and Food Engineering Program);

Prof. Harold Corke (Biotechnology and Food Engineering Program);

Prof. Moris S. Eisen (Chemistry Program);

Prof. Israel Schechter (Chemistry Program);

Prof. Moshe Eizenberg (Materials Science and Engineering Program);

Prof. Oren Cohen (Physics Program);

Prof. Ji-Dong Gu (Environmental Science and Engineering Research Group);

Prof. Varenyam Achal (Environmental Science and Engineering Research Group);

Prof. Moshe Sheintuch (Chemical Engineering Program);

Prof. Ziyi Zhong (Chemical Engineering Program);

Assoc. Prof. Peng Xu (Chemical Engineering Program);

Assoc. Prof. Xuezhong He (Chemical Engineering Program);

Assoc. Prof. Dmitry Pashchenko (Mechanical Engineering Program)

The "Single-Year Impact List"(2023) includes 11 members from GTIIT faculty team:

Prof. Aaron Ciechanover (Special Envoy of the Technion President to GTIIT);

Prof. Dganit Danino (Biotechnology and Food Engineering Program);

Prof. Harold Corke (Biotechnology and Food Engineering Program);

Prof. Ji-Dong Gu (Environmental Science and Engineering Research Group);

Prof. Varenyam Achal (Environmental Science and Engineering Research Group);

Prof. Daniel Tan (Materials Science and Engineering Program);

Prof. Ziyi Zhong (Chemical Engineering Program);

Assoc. Prof. Peng Xu (Chemical Engineering Program);

Assoc. Prof. Xuezhong He (Chemical Engineering Program);

Assoc. Prof. Dmitry Pashchenko (Mechanical Engineering Program);

Assoc. Prof. Sehoon Park (Chemistry Program)

The list, compiled by the team of Professor John P.A. Ioannidis of Stanford University, using citations from Scopus, an international scientific database, is based on standardized information of citations, h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, and a composite indicator, covering more than 7 million scientists and scholars considered to be active worldwide, respectively from 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields.

GTIIT faculty members featured in the list are from various scientific fields including biotechnology, food science, organic chemistry, environmental sciences, chemical engineering, energy and materials. Ranking on the list demonstrates that GTIIT scholars are at the top level in their respective fields with high global influence and important contributions. It also shows GTIIT's remarkable achievements in the construction of high-level academic talent team.

As the only Sino-foreign cooperative university on science and technology, GTIIT has introduced the high-quality educational resources of the world-renowned Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. GTIIT focuses on environment, energy, and human health, the key areas and basic disciplines in social and economic development and has been listed in the Guangdong High Level University Development Program.

GTIIT has demonstrates great potential in academic and research. Up to now, about 1,000 papers have been published by GTIIT, among which more than 90% have been indexed by SCIE/EI.

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