2024年6月20-30日，应肖春生研究员的邀请，中国科学院国际交流计划（PIFI）杰出学者、巴基斯坦拉合尔管理科学大学Irshad Hussain教授访问长春应化所，并作题为“Functional Nanomaterials -Tuning the size and surface chemistry for applications in biomedical and environmental sciences, and renewable energy technologies”的学术报告。在访问应化所期间，Irshad Hussain教授还和课题组师生进行深入交流，并共同探讨了双方的长期合作和国际学术交流计划。

Irshad Hussain教授简介：

Dr. Irshad Hussain is a tenured Professor and the Chair of the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, SBA School of Science & Engineering (SSE), LUMS, Pakistan. He is among the founding faculty members of SBASSE, and the founding Chair of Chemistry Department at LUMS. He is also the founding Project Director of Nanobiotech group at National Institute for Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, and has led several National forums on Nanotechnology in Pakistan. Currently, he leads Functional Nanomaterials group at LUMS that focuses on tuning the size and surface chemistry of nanomaterials for applications in renewable energy technologies, catalysis, biomedical and environmental sciences and has published over 150 research/review articles in highly prestigious journals in the field including Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Science Advances, JACS, Advanced Materials, Advanced Science, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., Chemical Society Reviews and Small etc. He has served as the Chair of National Nanotech Experts Panel at Pakistan Council for Science & Technology in 2015 and has been the member and Chair of the National Core Groups of Chemistry and Nanotechnology, respectively, formed by the PM Task Force on Science & Technology during 2019-2022. He is also the recipient of 02 Gold Medals in Chemistry by Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS) in 2007 (Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman Gold Medal) & 2014 (PAS Gold Medal). Dr. Hussain is now a Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK, and a Fellow of International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI).