Professor Li Zongjin of the University of Macau was awarded the Arthur Anderson Medal of the American Concrete Institute

Professor Li Zongjin and Mr. Michael Schneider, President of ACI

   Detroit, USA, March 26: At the 2017 Spring Annual Meeting of the American Concrete Society, Mr. Michael Schneider, President of the Society, presented the Arthur Anderson Medal, representing the Lifetime Achievement Award for Scientific Research, to Professor Li Zongjin of the University of Macau and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. This is the first scientist from China to win this honor since the award was established 45 years ago.

   The following award certificate reads as follows:

   The American Concrete Institute Lifetime Achievement Award for Scientific Research, the Arthur Anderson Medal, was awarded to Li Zongjin for his multiple contributions to teaching and research related to technologies and methods for producing tougher and more flexible concrete for sustainable infrastructure projects around the world.

   Professor Li has been engaged in the basic and applied research of civil engineering materials for many years. He has made a number of original innovative achievements in the basic theory and testing methods of concrete, which have a great impact on the development of the world's concrete field. He has led the world's research trend in the fields of non-contact resistivity technology to monitor concrete hydration and early age performance, the development and application of cement-based piezoelectric sensors, cement gene modified composite materials, and high toughness concrete development technology. In 2009, as the chief scientist, he led the National Key Basic Research (973) Project: Basic Research on Environmentally Friendly Modern Concrete. His research ideas on seamless links between materials and structures of concrete, the genetic influence of concrete from nano-scale, the multi-scale transition method to study concrete performance, the life-cycle design concept of concrete with unified bearing capacity and durability, and the academic viewpoints and scientific methods of developing high toughness concrete by organic and inorganic effective composite methods not only effectively guided the project. It has achieved excellent results and guided the new direction and trend of concrete research and development in China and even in the world. It has made outstanding contributions to the rapid development of China's concrete industry.

   Professor Li has been invited to give more than 60 reports at international conferences and national conferences. He has published five monographs in English. Among them, Advanced Concrete Technology is collected by famous libraries all over the world, and is also used as a textbook or reference book by many universities. He has published more than 400 academic papers, 329 of which have been included in Scopus, with 4972 citations in Scopus and an h-index of 38; 298 of which have been included in SCI, with 4156 citations in SCI and an h-index of 33. He was named one of the world's 150 most cited researchers in civil engineering in 2016 (The Most Cited Researchers: Developed for ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016 by Elsevier）。 As founding president, he inaugurated a new conference series on Gordon Research Conference, "Advanced Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure Development", "in 2014.

   Professor Li graduated from Zhejiang University with a bachelor's degree in 1982. From 1982 to 1986, he taught in the Civil Engineering College of Shandong Institute of Architecture and Engineering. He received his master's degree and doctor's degree from Northwestern University in 1990 and 1993 respectively. Since 1994, he has been teaching in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for a long time, and was the deputy dean of the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In 2017, he was appointed as a lecture professor by the University of Macau.

   Introduction to the Arthur Anderson Medal of the American Concrete Institute

   Founded in 1904 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA, the American Concrete Institute (ACI) is the oldest and largest academic group of concrete materials and structures in the world, as well as the authoritative body for the development and formulation of consensus standards for the design and construction of concrete materials and structures. It provides abundant resources for the development of concrete materials and structures in the world. The American Concrete Institute also engages in education, training, and certification related to concrete materials. With more than 95 local chapters, 110 student chapters, and nearly 20,000 members in more than 120 countries, the ACI is an international professional research organization.

   The American Concrete Institute established the Arthur Anderson Medal in 1972 in honor of past President Arthur Anderson's vision and outstanding leadership and his dedication to the pursuit of high-quality concrete for engineering projects.

   The award is presented annually to an individual, a company or an organization that has made an outstanding contribution to improving knowledge of the building material concrete. Awards are made by the American Concrete Institute Board of Directors on the recommendation of the Awards Committee. It represents the highest scientific research lifetime achievement award for concrete materials in the world.