Chinese materials scientist Pei Qibing takes up new post in Macau

A materials scientist whose career took him from rural China to California is heading for a post in Macau after 30 years in the United States.
According to the University of Macau’s website, Pei Qibing has been appointed chair professor and director of the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering.
Pei, an emeritus professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, began his studies in a very different world, attending a small rural school on an island in the Yangtze River in...