Cong Han, born in September 1981, is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor, a jointly trained PhD graduate of Northeastern University and CSIRO, and a Leading Talent of Shenyang. His main research interests include the theory and technology of metallic ore flotation, mineral materials, and simulation and modelling of interfacial interactions. As principal investigator, he has led one General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one sub-project under the National Key Research and Development Program of China, one sub-project under a National Major Special Project for Deep-Earth Exploration, one Liaoning Provincial Natural Science Foundation Doctoral Start-up Project, one Open Fund project of a State Key Laboratory, two Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities projects, and six industry-sponsored collaborative projects. As a core member, he has participated in more than 20 projects, including General Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Basic Research Program of China (“973” Program), the National High-Tech Support Program, the Liaoning Provincial Major Science and Technology Project for Water Pollution Control and Treatment, sub-projects of the National Key Technologies R&D Program, and industry collaborative projects. He has published more than 50 SCI-indexed academic papers and more than 10 EI-indexed or Chinese core journal papers, co-authored three monographs, and been granted 12 national invention patents. He received one First Prize of the Green Mine Science and Technology Award (Basic Research) in 2021, one Second Prize of the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award of Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education (Science and Technology) in 2019, and one Third Prize of the Science and Technology Award of the China General Chamber of Commerce in 2019. He serves as an editorial board member of Frontiers in Materials, a young editorial board member of Chinese Journal of Engineering and Conservation and Utilization of Mineral Resources, and a regular reviewer for journals including Journal of Materials Research and Technology, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Powder Technology, Hydrometallurgy, and Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China. He teaches two undergraduate courses, Testing Techniques in Mineral Processing and Numerical Simulation of Mineral Processing, as well as two postgraduate courses. Among them, Testing Techniques in Mineral Processing has been recognized as a provincial first-class undergraduate course. His students have won one Third Prize in a national science and technology competition and one Third Prize in a provincial/ministerial-level science and technology competition. He recruits 1–2 doctoral students and 1–2 master’s students each year.
