
A research team led by ProfessorsZhang Xinzheng, Chen Zhigang, and Xu Jingjun from the School of Physicsat Nankai University, in collaboration with Professor Irena Drevenšek Olenik from the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, has demonstrated for the first time a circularly polarized flexible topological vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with high laser conversion efficiency. The findings have been published in Light: Science Applicationsunder the title “Soft-Matter-Based Topologic

The Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced the recipientsof its 2026 award. Professor Chen Sen from the Collegeof Cryptologyand Cyber Scienceat Nankai University has been honored with the 2026 ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award in recognition of his research contributions to software security. He is the first scholar from an Asia-Pacific universityto receive this accolade.The ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher A

Recently, Political Economy of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, with Professor Pang Jinju serving as editor-in-chief, and Professors Liu Fengyi and He Zili as associate editors-in-chief, published by Higher Education Press, has been selected for 2025 China Classics International(CCI), according to an announcement released bytheChina Press Publication MediaJournal.Political Economy of Socialism with Chinese Characteristicsis a key textbook under the Marxist Theory Research and Construction

On December 20, the 2025 Annual Meeting of Insurance and Actuary 40 Forum was held at the ChernBuilding on Balitai Campus, Nankai University. The event was organizedby Nankai University and jointly undertakenby the Nankai-Taikang College of Insurance and Actuarial Science, China Life Reinsurance Company Ltd., and the School of Economics at Nankai University, with the theme “Technology-enabled Development and the New Health and Elderly Care Ecosystem”.This forum was attended by: Liang Tao,

A research team from Nankai University, in collaboration with teams from Tsinghua University, Shanghai JiaoTong University, and the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, has published a paper titled “Designing Strongly Coupled Polaritonic Structures via Statistical Machine Learning” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study proposes a novel statistical machine learning framework that enables accurate and efficient design of photonic devices with strongly coup

A research team led by Professor Xu Jingjun, Professor Cai Wei, and Associate Professor Luo Weiwei from the School of Physics and TEDA Institute of Applied Physics at Nankai University has achieveda series of significantadvances in the regulation mechanisms and near-field optical characterization of mid-infrared plasmons. The related findings have been published in Science Advances and Nature Communications.The mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral region encompasses a series of key physical processes,

A research team led by Professors Huo Weiguang and Han Jianda from the College of Artificial Intelligenceat Nankai University, in collaboration with researchers from Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, City St George’s, University of London, and Imperial College London, has published a study in npj Digital Medicine, a leading journal in the field of digital medicine. The study is titled “Deep Learning-enabled Accurate Assessment of Gait Impairments in Parkinsons Disease Using Smartphone Videos”.The studypr

On December 13, the China Insurance Institution Governance Evaluation Research Group at Nankai University released the 2024 China Insurance Institution Governance Index (CIIGI). Drawing on the latest annual disclosure data from China’s insurance sector, the 2024 CIIGI represents the index’s ninth annual release since its inaugural publication in 2016.Led by Hao Chen, Associate Professor in the Department of Financial Management at Nankai Business School, the research group leveraged their long-t

On December 11, a delegation led by Silvia Caro, Vice President of Universidaddelos Andes, Colombia, visited Nankai University (NKU). Fang Yongchun, Vice Presidentof NKU,met with the guests onBalitai Campus.FangYongchunextended a warm welcome to Vice President Caro and her delegation. He introduced NKU’s distinctive educational characteristics, research strengths, and international engagement. He highlighted the substantial collaborative foundation the two universities have built over nearly two

Recently, a research team led by Researcher Liu Shulin at the College of Chemistry, Nankai University, achieved a significant breakthrough in broad-spectrum anti-influenza A therapy. Liu’s team developed an innovative multiplexed PROTAC antiviral strategy capable of simultaneously degrading multiple key components of the viral ribonucleoprotein (vRNP) complex, which is the core machinery for viral replication. This study offers a novel solution for potent, durable, and broad-spectrum influenza t

Recently, the Engineering Capacity Building for Africa Programme (ECBAP), undertaken by Nankai University (NKU), was officially included in the United NationsInternationalDecadeofSciencesforSustainableDevelopment (IDSSD).ECBAP isa ten-year programmelaunched by the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), with the support of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Indust

Recently, Zhang Zhiting, a retired professor from the School of Foreign Studies, Nankai University (NKU) and recipient of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, donated the medal to UniversityArchives.Prof. Zhang previously served as a First Secretary of the Commercial Office at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in theRepublic of France, where he brought extensive diplomatic experience to his role. From 1995 till retirement, he had been dedicated to the establishment and development of th

From December 5 to 7, the Tengchong Scientists Forum 2025was held in Tengchong City, Yunnan Province. The event was jointly hosted by People’s Government of Yunnan Province and China Association for Science and Technology, with support from Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Nankai University (NKU).Chen Yulu, Presidentof Nankai University, attended the opening ceremony, presided over the opening keynote session, and participated in University Presidents Forum. Fang Yongchun, NKU Vice Pr

On December 4, Chen Fei, Vice President of Yunnan Normal University, and his delegation visited Nankai University. Chen Jun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Executive Vice President of Nankai University (NKU), met with the guests at the Haibing Centeron Balitai Campus.Chen Jun noted that the profound friendship between the two universitiesdates back totheir shared origin in the National Southwestern Associated University. He expressed hope that both institutions would

Recently, XiangpanJi, Associate Professor at the School of Physics, Nankai University (NKU), in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory physicistJay Hyun Joand Louisiana State Universityprofessor Hanyu Wei, used data from MicroBooNE at Fermilab to achieve a major breakthrough in the study of sterile neutrinos. The study pioneered an innovative “single detector + two neutrino beams” approach, excluding the existence of a single sterile neutrino at a 95% confidence level. Their findings,