Congratulations to PhD student Xiaojun Zhu who has been awarded a “Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad” from the China Scholarship Council (CSC). This award was founded by the Chinese government in 2003 with the purpose of rewarding the academic excellence of self-financed Chinese students studying overseas. Only those with outstanding performance in their PhD studies are considered by the award selection panel and no more than 500 young talents are granted the award each year all over the world.