The Shenzhen Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Shenzhen Youth Federation recently announced the list of recipients of the 2023 Shenzhen Youth May Fourth Medal.

Lian FENG, Associate Professor of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), was awarded the Medal for 2023.

Prof. Lian FENG joined SUSTech in 2017. He is mainly engaged in the theory, method, and application of remote sensing of inland and coastal water environments.

He has been the recipient of various honors and awards, including the National Youth Talent Support Program, the National Leading Talents of Shenzhen, the Pearl River Scholar Program, and the Young Scientist Award from the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences (CSES).

Prof. FENG has published more than 50 SCI papers in top journals such as Nature, Nature Geoscience, Remote Sensing of Environment, Environmental Science & Technology, Water Resources Research, Geophysical Research Letters, and Journal of Geophysical Research, and his work has been selected as the cover paper of these journals on multiple occasions. He was also selected into the list of the world’s top 2% of scientists released by Stanford University.

The activity was officially launched in January 2023 and has entered into the final stage, and organizers will present the prizes to 60 individual recipients and 30 units.