Key facts
- Pei Qibing appointed chair professor and director of the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering at the University of Macau.
- He is an emeritus professor from the University of California, Los Angeles.
- Pei's early education was in a rural school in Anhui, China.
- He studied chemistry at Nanjing University.
- His research spans areas like smart windows, data encryption, biosensing, and electrocaloric cooling.
Materials scientist Pei Qibing has been appointed as a chair professor and director of the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering at the University of Macau. Pei, who spent 30 years in the United States as an emeritus professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, will take up his new post in Macau.