Recently, it was learned from the International Geochemical Society that Professor Hao Jihua from the School of Earth and Space Sciences of our university won the 2024 Fw.Clark Prize (f.).w. clarke awards）。The Clark Award is an important award given by the Geochemical Society to young scientists who have made outstanding contributions to geochemistry or cosmochemistryw.Named after Clark, the award began in November 1973 and enjoys an international reputation for excellence. The laureate will give an invited presentation at the International Goldsmitt Geochemistry Annual Conference and receive a silver medal.
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Professor Hao Jihua is the first recipient to work in China. His contributions have focused on a series of works to quantify geochemical conditions and processes on early Earth and key planets, particularly in the Archean Earth weathering, early river water chemistry and phosphorus cycles, and the availability of phosphorus in Enceladus seawater.
He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2012 and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2017. After graduating with a Ph.D., he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Lyon in France and Rutgers University in the United States. He returned to China in January 2021 and won the 2022 Youth Program of the Ministry of Education's "Talent Program" and the Chinese Academy of Sciences' "Talent Program" Youth Program (merit-based and top-level support). He is mainly engaged in the research of early earth nutrient cycles, the origin of life, and the habitability of extraterrestrial oceans. He has published 36 articles in SCI journals such as Science, including 16 papers in Nature Geoscience, Science Advances (2), PNAS (2) and other journals as the first corresponding author, and has been invited to give special reports at international conferences such as the International Astrobiology Congress and the International Geochemical Annual Meeting, and has won the "Global Scholar Award" issued by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Study in 2021 and other academic honors. He served as an expert for the evaluation of international projects such as NASA and the European Union ERC, and was invited to serve as the theme chair of the International Geochemistry Annual Conference (2024). After returning to China, he founded the Astrobiology Laboratory of USTC and presided over the National Key R&D Program "Key Scientific Issues in Transformative Technology" Young Scientists.
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