Huang Jiaxing, an alumnus of the Anhui-based University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) won the 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships, American grants given annually for creative work in the arts, or research in any branch of knowledge.

The sole winner in the field of Chemistry graduated from the School of Chemical Physics of the university in 2000. Four years later, he received his doctor's degree in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), winning IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists and ACS Prizes for Outstanding Postgraduate of Polymer Chemistry both because of his excellent thesis.

Founded in 1925, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded this year's fellowships to 178 scholars, artists and scientists who worked in the United States.