About Jianguo Hou’s work
Based at the University of Science and Technology of China, Jianguo Hou held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from June to December 2000.
Biography
Jianguo Hou worked in Fuqing County Light Industry Machinery Factory in Fujian Province in 1976. In 1978, he studied crystallography at the Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China. He obtained his master’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in solid state physics and his doctoral degree in solid state physics at the Center for Fundamental Physics. Since 1995, he served as a professor, Director of the Physical and Chemical Science Center, Vice President and President of the University of Science and Technology of China.
In November 2003, he was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and became a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (formerly known as the Third World Academy of Sciences) in 2004. Hou‘s research field in physical chemistry focuses in the use of high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy to study single-molecule features and manipulations, and has made important theoretical and experimental contributions to the research in the field of single-molecule physical chemistry.