Zhibing Yang receives Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad

2013-05-24

H.E. Mr. Lan Lijun (right), Chinese ambassador to Sweden, and Zhibing Yang (left).

 

On 17th May 2013, Zhibing Yang of the LUVAL program, Department of Earth Sciences, was awarded the 2012 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad from the China Scholarship Council.

The award, initiated in 2003, is sponsored by the Chinese government to recognize outstanding academic performances in postgraduate studies by overseas students without Chinese government funding. Twelve Chinese PhD students in Sweden have received this award for the year 2012.

Working in the geohydrology group led by Prof. Niemi, Zhibing Yang focused his PhD research on the topic of multiphase flow and transport processes in rock fractures for applications to groundwater contamination remediation and geological storage of CO2. 

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