Prof. Zhiguo He and Prof. Pengcheng Jiao at Ocean College, Zhejiang University won Creativity Prize of the 11th PSIPW Award (2024), as announced by The Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) and the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR). The winners of five awards of PSIPW also include the leading scientists from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy and Singapore, respectively.

        PSIPW is a member of numerous leading international organizations, including the World Water Council. PSIPW also has special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC-UN). PSIPW Award is an international award focusing on the efforts made by scientists, inventors, and research organizations around the world which contribute to the sustainable availability of potable water and the alleviation of the escalating global problem of water scarcity. PSIPW awards a suite of five prizes every two years, judged by leading scientists from around the world, including the Creativity Prize and four Specialized Prizes, covering the entire water research landscape. The Creativity Prize is awarded exclusively to research teams for cutting-edge interdisciplinary scientific work that can rightly be considered a breakthrough in any water-related field. The team of Prof. He is the first Chinese research team to win this prize.

Drs. Zhiguo He, Pengcheng Jiao and Yang Yang win Creativity Prize of the 11th PSIPW

In recent years, to address the challenges of observing the motion of gravity flow, Prof. Zhiguo He and Prof. Pengcheng Jiao have successfully developed a multifunctional bionic system for observation in complex underwater environments by integrating multidisciplinary knowledge of hydrodynamics, structural mechanics, engineering, and bionics. Research outcomes have been published in Soft Robotics etc., including cover papers of Journal of Field Robotics. Prof. He has been awarded the Scholarship for Multiphase Flows in Geophysics and the Environment offered by Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP). The team also received 16 national invention patents, the Silver Medal of the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva, and the Best Post Award 2023 in the China Robotics Academic Conference.