Annual Summary and Recognition
After comprehensive evaluation, the 2023 annual laboratory safety excellence assessment selected 11 EHS Management Awards, 8 laboratory safety and environmental protection demonstration platforms, 11 research groups, and 21 outstanding individuals in laboratory safety management. Here are the brief introductions of the EHS Management Award winners.
EHS Management Award - Institutes
01 - School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST)
Adhering to the mission of ShanghaiTech University to serve national development strategies and cultivate innovative and entrepreneurial talents, the School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) aims to inspire, educate, and cultivate innovative talents in the field of material science, becoming an internationally competitive original scientific research institution. The school conducts research in areas such as materials, energy, environment, and health, aiming to address core scientific issues for China's long-term development. The school comprises four research departments: Photon Science and Condensed Matter Physics, Systems Materials Science, Chemistry and Physical Biology, and Big Science Platform Development. It also boasts research platforms such as the Analysis and Testing Center, Electron Microscopy Center, Topological Physics Laboratory, Soft Matter Micro/Nano Fabrication Laboratory, Mechanical Processing Center, and Nano Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy Experimental Station.
02 - School of Information Science and Technology (SIST)
The research work of the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) is oriented towards significant global challenges and national strategic needs in the information field. The school has 111 laboratories, including 17 teaching laboratories, 20 research platform laboratories, and 74 research group laboratories (including 2 under territorial management). With the development of the school, the number of laboratories will further increase. These laboratories involve various risk sources, including hazardous chemicals, gas cylinders, Dewar flasks, lasers, radiation, electricity, machinery, and unmanned vehicles. Laboratory safety tasks in the school are arduous and involve multiple risk factors. Laboratories are crucial venues for cultivating students' hands-on practical abilities and innovative research capabilities, undertaking significant teaching and research work. Therefore, laboratory safety is indispensable, and each laboratory varies in its emphasis on safety. To promote laboratory safety, the School of Information Science and Technology adopts a balanced approach of service and management. On one hand, it helps laboratories solve practical problems, gains their understanding and cooperation, and implements various safety management systems at the laboratory level. On the other hand, it promptly eliminates safety hazards, maintains safety baselines, and prevents safety accidents.
03 - iHuman Institute
The iHuman Institute has maintained a safe and stable operation of its laboratories this year. The institute's safety management team and faculty and students have actively carried out laboratory safety activities in line with the institute's characteristics while implementing the university's various laboratory safety management requirements.
1. Conducted a fire emergency drill for the Bio-Electron Microscopy Platform of the iHuman Institute in 2023.
2. The institute has conducted targeted special inspections based on the regulatory requirements for key hazardous sources at each stage of the year.
3. Conducted a spring cleaning and demonstration laboratory evaluation activity for the iHuman Institute in 2023.
04 - Quantum Device Center / SQDL
The Quantum Device Center (SQDL) is a university-level public research and development, teaching, and talent cultivation platform fully open to the society, officially established by ShanghaiTech University in December 2019. The center covers an area of 2,500 square meters with a total investment of approximately 200 million yuan. It houses over 70 advanced micro/nano processing and testing equipment, providing comprehensive experimental testing conditions for the entire chain of micro/nano devices. It also boasts a complete research and development line for 4-inch and smaller wafers, as well as a 4-6-inch manufacturing experimental line for III-V semiconductors, superconducting, and MEMS devices. The center is equipped with a GMS central gas monitoring system, facial recognition system, and implements 24-hour uninterrupted monitoring (with surveillance cameras and regular inspections by the facility management team).
05 - Center for Ultimate Energy / CUE
The Center for Ultimate Energy (CUE) at ShanghaiTech University was established in 2020, primarily focusing on research into key scientific issues related to magnetically inertial confinement fusion energy systems. Currently, it has established a plasma gun research and development laboratory and a plasma target research and development laboratory. The laboratory consistently implements the principle of safety first, prevention-oriented, and comprehensive management, striving to minimize hazards, abide by regulations, produce results, and create outstanding achievements.
EHS Management Award - Platforms
01 Chemistry Experimental Teaching Center / School of Materials Science and Engineering
The Chemistry Experimental Teaching Center of the School of Materials Science and Engineering offers general chemistry courses for undergraduate students across the university. It also provides specialized chemistry courses and advanced undergraduate-graduate integrated courses for students from the School of Materials Science and Engineering and the School of Life Science and Technology. Additionally, it leads students to participate in various chemical experiment competitions.
The entire teaching staff of the center values safety and adheres to the principle of safety first, prevention foremost. They manage risks from the source, strictly implement effective safety regulations, and conduct safety management from multiple dimensions, including personnel, materials, and the environment. In 2023, it applied for the University Security and Safety Management Demonstration Site in Shanghai.
02 Soft Matter Micro/Nano Processing Laboratory / School of Materials Science and Engineering
The Soft Matter Micro/Nano Processing Laboratory is a small-scale, high-level, and innovative micro/nano processing platform. As a university-level platform with shared large-scale equipment, it primarily serves research and educational projects both within and outside the university, providing users with advanced micro/nano processing equipment and excellent processing conditions. It also serves as an open communication platform for industry-university cooperation, striving to become a talent cultivation base for micro/nano processing, aiming to achieve the innovative value and philosophy of advancing technological progress and driving industrial development emphasized by ShanghaiTech University.
03 Advanced Magnetic Resonance Research Laboratory / School of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
The Advanced Magnetic Resonance Research Laboratory (AIR Lab) is located on the ground floor of the School of Biomedical Engineering and Technology. Relying on a powerful magnetic resonance imaging system and related supporting equipment, the laboratory provides open testing services for technology development, clinical application research, neurocognitive psychological research, preclinical experiments, and more.
04 Biomedical Big Data Platform / Institute of Immunochemistry
The Biomedical Big Data Platform of the Institute of Immunochemistry primarily provides IT support related to scientific computing and omics technology consulting and services, primarily focusing on high-throughput sequencing data. It is one of the first batch of safe and environmentally friendly demonstration laboratories at ShanghaiTech University. The director of the platform is Dr. Jiang Lichun, and the safety officer is Teacher Song Zhangyue. The platform leaders and members have a high sense of responsibility for safety, maintaining a good and stable operation status in recent years. Besides strictly adhering to the EHS and research institute safety management regulations and codes of our university, the platform has achieved particularly outstanding safety management results in the following two aspects:
1. Timely updating, organizing, and daily filling out of experimental SOPs and safety management documents.
2. Maintaining a clean and tidy laboratory environment, providing clear guidance to personnel entering the laboratory, requiring the return of experimental items to their original positions, including equipment and reagent consumables, and strictly implementing waste classification.
EHS Management Award - Research Groups
01 Mi Qixi Research Group / School of Materials Science and Engineering
The research focus of the Mi Qixi Research Group is on material physics and chemistry as well as novel photoelectric conversion materials, especially tin halide perovskite materials. Their research covers various aspects, including theoretical modeling and calculations, material synthesis and crystal structure characterization, single crystal growth and thin film preparation, bulk and surface/interface defect suppression, and device performance optimization and improvement for new semiconductor materials.
In the past five years, the research group has conducted systematic research on the composition-structure-property relationships and potential applications of lead-free perovskite (especially tin halides) materials, breaking through the inherent constraints in this field. The performance of tin perovskite solar cell devices has reached the international leading level.
02 Zhang Yuebiao Research Group / School of Materials Science and Engineering
The Zhang Yuebiao Research Group focuses on porous framework materials and carbon-neutral energy applications. While strictly adhering to the school's laboratory standardized management regulations, the research group has formulated safety guidelines and experimental rules tailored to the specific experimental characteristics of the group. They have effectively integrated the concept of safe experimentation into the laboratory culture and have been recognized as the Security and Safety Demonstration Site in Shanghai universities in 2018 and the first Safety and Environmental Protection Demonstration laboratory at ShanghaiTech University.
