Canada Research Chair chemist Janusz Pawliszyn joins Chinese university

Janusz Pawliszyn, the 71-year-old recipient of the Chemical Institute of Canada’s highest honour and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has joined Guangzhou’s Sun Yat-sen University, the institution announced on April 9.

Pawliszyn has supervised more than 110 master’s and doctoral students as well as nearly 200 postdoctoral students and visiting scholars, many of them from China.

Ouyang Gangfeng was one of them. From 2004 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Pawliszyn’s laboratory.

He is now a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and dean of Sun Yat-sen University’s school of chemical engineering and technology – which Pawliszyn has joined as a professor.

Pawliszyn is an internationally renowned analytical chemist and the inventor of two widely used analytical chemistry techniques.

He was appointed a Canada Research Chair in 2003, became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2010, and received the Chemical Institute of Canada Medal in 2023.