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Prof. Dahua Shou is the Associate Director of the PolyU-Xingguo Technology and Innovation Research Institute, Associate Director of the Research Centre of Textiles for Future Fashion, Limin Endowed Young Scholar in Advanced Textiles Technologies (利民先進紡織科技青年學者席), and an Associate Professor at the School of Fashion and Textiles (SFT). He is also the founding Program Leader of Asia's and China’s first postgraduate program in Intelligent Wearable Technology (亞洲及中國首個“可穿戴科技”研究生學位).

Prof. Shou has received The Fiber Society’s 2023 Distinguished Achievement Award, an annual honor given to an individual researcher worldwide. He ranks among the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide in 2022 - 2024. Prof. Shou has also received the Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury (2025) and a Gold Medal (2024) at the Geneva Invention Exhibition in Switzerland, as well as the TechConnect Global Innovation Award twice in the United States. In addition, he has been honored with the PolyU Graduate School Outstanding Research Postgraduate Young Alumni Award (2024).

Prof. serves as an Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member for eight SCI journals (Q1/Q2), including Textile Research Journal and Journal of Industrial Textiles. Additionally, he is the Deputy Director of the Expert Committee at the National Textile and Apparel Comfort Technology R&D Center, China Textile Engineering Society. Prof. Shou is the chair of The Fiber Society Spring 2025 Conference in Hong Kong, themed “Future Fibers for Wellbeing, Intelligence, and Sustainability”.

Prof. Shou's research focuses on Advanced Textiles, Intelligent Wearables, and Thermal and Moisture Management, and leading his group, iFiber: Interface, Fibers, Intelligence, Bioinspiration, Energy, and Robotics, to increase understanding and optimize performance of body-environment and/or human-machine interface for Human Argumentation, based on advanced and sustainable fibrous materials, intelligent models and algorithms, bioinspired design, energy harvesting and conversion, and soft robotics. Nearly 100 peer-review papers have been published in prestigious journals such as Science Advances, PNAS, Advanced Energy Materials, and Advanced Functional Materials. In the past three years, he has been granted 3 US patents and over ten Chinese patents. He has led over 30 research grants (as PI) from GRF/ECS, ITF, GTF, ECF, Industry, and PolyU.

Prof. Shou earned his PhD from PolyU and then worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow consecutively at The University of Sydney and Cornell University.

The applicants for PhD, Postdoc and RA positions are welcomed to send the CV to dahua.shou@polyu.edu.hk.

寿大华教授是香港理工大学（理大）利民先进纺织科技青年学者，理大兴国研究院副院长，未来服装纺织科技研究中心副主任，以及时装及纺织学院副教授。他也是智能可穿戴科技研究生学位的创始主任。寿博士于理大获得博士学位，并在悉尼大学和康奈尔大学完成博士后研究。他的研究领域包括个人热湿管理、智能可穿戴技术及软体机器人。

寿博士于2023年获得美国纤维学会杰出成就奖（全球每年仅一位获奖者），并在2022至2024年连续三年名列全球前2%的科学家榜单。他在瑞士日内瓦发明展获得审团嘉许金奖（2025）和金奖（2024），并在2021年和2022年两次获得美国TechConnect全球创新奖。此外，他还荣获2024年理大研究生院杰出青年校友奖。

寿博士受邀担任八个SCI期刊（Q1/Q2）的副编辑和编委会成员（包括TRJ副编辑），并担任中国纺织工程学会国家纺织服饰舒适技术研发中心专家委员会副主任。他已在《科学进展》、《美国国家科学院院刊》、《先进能源材料》和《先进功能材料》等顶尖期刊上发表了近100篇研究论文，近三年获得三项美国专利和十多项中国专利。相关研究获得了诸多媒体的采访和报道，包括ABC News、央广网、中新网、TVB和香港有线电视等。

未来，寿博士将在香港主办2025年美国纤维学会春季会议，会议主题为“未来纤维：健康、智慧以及可持续发展”。

• Doctor of Philosophy, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University