Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT)
Founded in 1958 as Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) is a high-level university established in the People's Republic of China to cultivate senior chemical engineering professionals needed for the development of cutting-edge science and technology. As a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, a key university supported by the national Project 211 and the Innovation Platform for Dominant Disciplines of Project 985, as well as a national "Double First-Class" university, BUCT shoulders the mission of nurturing high-level innovative talents, conducting basic and forward-looking scientific research, and developing original high-tech technologies.
The university has three campuses: Chaoyang, Haidian, and Changping, covering a total area of 2,492 mu with a total floor space of approximately 1.0464 million square meters. BUCT has evolved into a multi-disciplinary national key university with solid basic sciences, strong engineering strengths, and distinctive disciplines in management, economics, law, literature, education, philosophy, medicine, and other fields. A multi-tiered education system has been formed, encompassing undergraduate education, postgraduate education, international student education, and continuing education. At present, BUCT has 18 schools (departments), with more than 16,000 full-time undergraduates, over 10,000 graduate students (including more than 2,000 doctoral candidates).
Boasting a strong faculty, BUCT employs more than 2,800 employees, including eight academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (one foreign academician of CAS and one foreign academician of CAE) and five academicians from other countries. Its disciplinary strength has been steadily improving: Chemical Engineering and Technology has been selected as a national "Double First-Class" construction discipline, and remarkable breakthroughs have been made in A-level disciplines in the 5th Round of National Discipline Assessment. Eleven disciplines rank among the global top 1% in ESI: Chemistry, Materials Science, Engineering, Biology & Biochemistry, Environment/Ecology, Computer Science, Agricultural Sciences, Geosciences, Physics, Pharmacology & Toxicology, and Clinical Medicine. Among them, Chemistry, Materials Science, and Engineering rank among the global top 0.1% in ESI.
The university has witnessed rapid progress in scientific research. It hosts four national key laboratories, one National Engineering Technology Research Center, one National Engineering Laboratory, 16 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, 14 provincial and ministerial engineering research centers (institutes), two provincial and ministerial social science bases, and one international joint laboratory. Its capacity to undertake major research projects and meet key national economic and social development needs has been further enhanced. A large number of research findings have been published in top international academic journals such as Nature and Science, and various scientific achievements have been applied in national cutting-edge sci-tech fields.
The university's social service capacity keeps improving. Focusing on supporting national strategies for coordinated and major regional development, BUCT has established a number of new off-campus research institutions, including regional research institutes, industry-university-research bases, and technology transfer centers in major economic hubs such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Yangtze River Delta, further deepening university-local and university-enterprise cooperation. It has intensified industry-education integration and advanced strategic cooperation with leading enterprises, including Sinopec, CNPC, ChemChina, CHN Energy, and China Coal Group, focusing on building innovation consortia in new energy and new materials. It has also signed strategic cooperation agreements with the Palace Museum and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Heritage. Leveraging its scientific and technological advantages and talent pool, and guided by the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, BUCT has developed a high-tech industry with BUCT characteristics, forming a series of technologies and products in biochemical engineering, daily chemical industry, fine chemical industry, new chemical materials, and other fields.
The university's international exchanges and cooperation have expanded continuously, with partnerships established with 190 universities and institutions in 70 countries and regions worldwide. It was awarded the 2023 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award. To promote student international mobility, BUCT has launched the "BUCT — Top 100 Global Universities Elite Program for Undergraduate, Master's and Doctoral Students". It has developed 100 overseas study and exchange programs with relevant universities and institutions globally, and sponsors students to pursue master's and doctoral degrees or participate in joint doctoral training abroad.
BUCT currently hosts eight postdoctoral research stations: Chemical Engineering and Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics, Control Science and Engineering, Management Science and Engineering, Chemistry, and Bioengineering. It recruits postdoctoral researchers in the above disciplines all year round, and also encourages researchers in other related and interdisciplinary fields to join its postdoctoral stations to conduct research in interdisciplinary fields.
Beijing University of Chemical Technology-International Postdoctoral Position Descriptions.pdf