Guo, Zaiping

Professor Zaiping Guo is a Chair Professor of Energy Materials at CityUHK, she joined CityU in July 2025. Prior to her move to Hong Kong, she was a Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Adelaide.

She has served as an Associate Editor for Chemical Science, a flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) since May 2022. Before that, she was an Associate Editor for ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces from January 2014 to May 2022. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2023. Her research focuses on the design and application of electrode materials and electrolytes for energy storage and conversion, including rechargeable batteries, hydrogen storage, and fuel cells. Her research achievements have been recognized through numerous awards, including an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship in 2010, an ARC Future Professorial Fellowship in 2015, and an ARC Laureate Fellowship (2021). She has also been named a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher for seven consecutive years (2018–2024). In addition, she received the 2020 NSW Premier’s Prize for Excellence in Engineering or Information and Communications Technology.

As of May 2025, she has published more than 600 scientific papers in refereed journals, with a Google Scholar h-index of 137 and citations of 65,000+; a Web of Science h-index of 123 and citations of 52,000+.