Recently, the results of the 3rd "Top 10 supervisors" and "Top 10 supervisor Teams" in Jiangsu Province were announced. The "Clean Combustion and Energy Utilization" supervisor team led by Prof. Qian Wang of our school and Prof. Zhixia He of the Energy Research Institute won the nomination award of top 10 supervisor teams.

There are 10 core members of the team, including 4 national-level talents, such as national teachers, experts with special allowances from the State Council, and young top-notch talents, 2 global ESI highly cited scholars, 1 outstanding youth of Jiangsu Province, 4 in the second level of "333 Project" in Jiangsu Province, and 14 high-level talents such as the "Qinglan Project" and "Six Talent Peaks" of Jiangsu Province. The team insists on morality and talent cultivation and has formed a postgraduate training model featuring "value guidance, problem orientation, integration of production and education, and international cooperation". The team has won the second prize in China Degree and Postgraduate Education Achievement Award, the second prize in National Teaching Achievement Award, the second prize in the First National Textbook Construction Award, the Education and Teaching Award of the Fok Ying Tung Foundation, and the outstanding teaching team of Jiangsu Province "Qinglan Project". More than 150 graduates have grown into leading talents and scientific research backbones in many universities and well-known enterprises at home and abroad. Among them, 1 won the China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award, 3 outstanding doctoral dissertations in Jiangsu Province, and 12 outstanding master theses in Jiangsu Province.

Focusing on the national energy strategy, the team has continuously overcome the "stuck neck" problem in the field of clean combustion and energy utilization. In the past five years, the team has presided over 6 major national, provincial and key R&D plans (projects), 15 Natural Science Foundation of China, and more than 20 major projects commissioned by enterprises. Research achievements have won 7 provincial and ministerial awards such as the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education and the Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Award. The team has published more than 150 papers in top journals in the energy field, and was authorized more than 100 international PCT patents and Chinese invention patents.