Sun Chenggong from the University of Birmingham, UK Appointed as Distinguished Professor of Shandong Jianzhu University

Author: Zhu Ke Release Date: December 29, 2025 Source: School of Thermal Engineering

On December 26, the appointment ceremony of Sun Chenggong from the University of Birmingham, UK as Distinguished Professor of our university was grandly held in Conference Room 611 of the Science and Technology Building. Li Qing, Member of the Party Committee and Vice President, attended the ceremony and presented the appointment letter to Sun Chenggong.

Li Qing extended a warm welcome and sincere thanks to Sun Chenggong for joining Shandong Jianzhu University on behalf of the university, and introduced the university's school-running characteristics, disciplinary advantages and development achievements in the fields of energy and low-carbon technology in recent years. He pointed out that the university attaches great importance to the construction of high-level talent teams and international exchanges and cooperation. It is hoped that taking this appointment of Sun Chenggong as an opportunity, a high-level academic exchange platform between our university and the University of Birmingham, UK will be built, promoting in-depth cooperation between the two parties in joint research on scientific research projects, joint training of postgraduates, etc., and helping the high-quality development of the university's discipline of Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics. Li Qing presented the distinguished professor appointment letter to Sun Chenggong and took a group photo. After the ceremony, Sun Chenggong gave an academic report titled "Climate Energy Technology and Carbon Neutrality - Technological Innovation Leads Industrial Transformation".

Sun Chenggong is a Chair Professor at the University of Birmingham, UK, and an expert of the Carbon Negative Technology Hearing of the UK Parliament's Committee on Climate Change and Environmental Audit. His research fields include industrial carbon capture, utilization and storage, carbon negative technology, advanced materials and energy catalysis, and electro-conversion synthetic fuels. He has published more than 200 academic papers. He presided over the Nuclear Energy-Driven Direct Air Capture (DAC) National Demonstration Project of the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, built the world's first heat-driven DAC demonstration plant, and the total research funding has reached nearly 70 million pounds.