ShanghaiTech University China
Overview
Tackling China’s Challenges through Science and Technology
ShanghaiTech is a young resource-rich university with a modern residential campus in the heart of Shanghai Pudong’s Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park. With an academic focus on STEM research, ShanghaiTech is committed to serving China’s national challenges in economic and social development with the focus on science and technology, and nurturing the next generation of innovative scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs.
With the backing and support of Shanghai Municipal Government and Chinese Academy of Sciences, ShanghaiTech’s six schools and five research institutes are committed to tackling the challenges that China and the world are facing in the fields of energy, materials, biology, environment, human health, information technology and mathematics.
Addressing pressing challenges
ShanghaiTech is dedicated to be a research university of academic excellence and a dynamic people centered hub where innovative research, education, and community service meet to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to learning and to solving global challenges.
Located in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, ShanghaiTech is close to various industries and venture companies. It is also near several large science facilities, including the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, the National Facility of Protein Science in Shanghai, the National Drug Screening Platform and the Shanghai Center for Microsatellites. Over 700,000 square meters in area, its campus was designed to be faculty and student oriented and to facilitate interaction and integration.
Focusing on science and technology, ShanghaiTech University comprises six schools — the School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST), the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST), the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST), the School of Biochemical Engineering(BME), the School of Entrepreneurship and Management (SEM), and the School of Creativity and Art (SCA) — and five research institutes — the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS), the iHuman Institute, the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the Institute of Humanities, Institute of Carbon Neutrality — and one Research Hospital (also called as Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center) and one center for Transformative Science.
Investing in people
The university is forming a top-tier faculty of 1,000 professors, including 500 tenured or tenure-track faculty (recruited globally) and 500 distinguished professors-in-residence from CAS or other prestigious universities or institutes. ShanghaiTech’s innovative university-wide tenure-track system attracts talented faculty with a wealth of experience from around the world, nearly 20% are foreign nationals and more than 90% of the faculty earned their PhD abroad, including four Nobel laureates, ten National Academy of Sciences (USA) members, seven fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Science s, two Royal Society (UK) fellows, thirty-seven CAS members and five Chinese Academy of Engineering members.
ShanghaiTech offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. It will eventually have 2,000 undergraduate students and 4,000 graduate students (including 3,000 PhD candidates).
ShanghaiTech aims to nurture future leading scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs. At ShanghaiTech, residential colleges work closely with schools to foster students’ moral integrity, academic capabilities and innovative spirit. Students are encouraged to investigate the challenges China faces, to explore cutting-edge research areas and high-tech industries, and to implement their innovative and entrepreneurial ideas.
Advancing research through collaboration
By encouraging an interdisciplinary approach and the integration of university and national research facilities, the university aims to form a complete innovation value chain, which will drive industrial development through the advancement of science.
ShanghaiTech is actively engaged in the globalization of education. It has extensive collaborations with University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, MIT, Yale University, Harvard University, and the University of Padova. To break down barriers between research and industry, ShanghaiTech collaborates closely with domestic and international high-tech companies in joint research and development and student training.
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Research
Date range: 1 July 2021 - 30 June 2022
Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All
The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for ShanghaiTech University published between 1 July 2021 - 30 June 2022 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Hover over the donut graph to view the Share for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.
Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.
| Count | Share |
|---|---|
| 321 | 89.06 |
Outputs by subject (Share)
| Subject | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Physical Sciences | 133 | 35.57 |
| Chemistry | 166 | 49.36 |
| Life Sciences | 109 | 23.98 |
| Earth & Environmental Sciences | 3 | 0.43 |
Share output for the past 5 years
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23.40 | 36.63 | 52.99 | 70.26 | 72.05 |
Highlight of the month
Spider silk inspires tunable artificial biomaterials
© FrankRamspott/E+/Getty Images
Inspired by spider silk, scientists have fabricated biomaterials whose structures and mechanical properties can be tuned to match soft tissues in the body.
Spider silk is a remarkable material that is simultaneously lightweight and incredibly strong. The secret to its remarkable properties lies in the way it combines various levels of structures ranging from the mesoscale to the molecular scale.
Now, by mimicking the spider-silk spinning process, a team led by researchers from ShanghaiTech University in China has produced silk fibroin biomaterials with exceptional mechanical properties.
Importantly, the mechanical properties could be tuned to match those of soft tissues such as skin and muscle and biological materials such as keratin and collagen.
The team also demonstrated the use of their biomaterials for controlling the shape of mammalian and cancer cells, and thereby help cells to recover some of their physiological functions.
References
- Advanced Functional Materials 32, 2200267 (2022). doi: 10.1002/adfm.202200267
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Collaboration
Date range: 1 July 2021 - 30 June 2022
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
- 76.09% Domestic
- 23.91% International
Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators with ShanghaiTech University by Share (193 total)
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ShanghaiTech University and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
(108.21)
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ShanghaiTech University and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)
(56.84)
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ShanghaiTech University and Fudan University
(18.93)
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ShanghaiTech University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
(14.01)
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ShanghaiTech University and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
(13.49)
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ShanghaiTech University and Tsinghua University
(11.41)
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ShanghaiTech University and Zhejiang University (ZJU)
(10.72)
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ShanghaiTech University and Nanjing University (NJU)
(9.92)
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ShanghaiTech University and CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology (CEBSIT)
(5.58)
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ShanghaiTech University and Nankai University (NKU)
(5.08)
Top 10 international collaborators with ShanghaiTech University by Share (517 total)
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ShanghaiTech University and University of Oxford
(7.67)
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ShanghaiTech University and Max Planck Society
(5.29)
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ShanghaiTech University and University of Toronto (U of T)
(2.93)
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ShanghaiTech University and University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
(2.88)
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ShanghaiTech University and The University of Tokyo (UTokyo)
(2.42)
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ShanghaiTech University and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
(2.33)
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ShanghaiTech University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
(2.14)
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ShanghaiTech University and Scripps Research
(1.80)
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ShanghaiTech University and TU Dresden
(1.77)
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ShanghaiTech University and The University of Queensland (UQ)
(1.55)
Relationships
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
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