The College of Energy at Xiamen University traces its origins to the Energy Research Institute which was established in 2007, and was formally upgraded to a college in 2013. Since its establishment, the College has upheld the vision of “Developing energy technologies to jointly change the world,” consistently aligning its strategic development with national energy policy priorities and benchmarking against the frontiers of international science and technology. It has seized the opportunities presented by China’s “Double First-Class” initiative and the development of “New Engineering,” rooted in Xiamen while committed to serving the nation, striving to build a domestically first-class and internationally leading base with distinctive characteristics for talent cultivation, scientific and technological innovation, and international exchange and cooperation in the energy field, and making active contributions to achieving the national goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.

Our college consists of the Department of New Energy, the Department of Energy Storage, and an Engineering Center. It hosts two university-level research institutes: the Energy Research Institute of Xiamen University and the New Energy Equipment Research Institute of Xiamen University. According to research directions, our college has established the Institute of Nuclear Energy, the Institute of Energy Chemical Engineering, the Institute of Energy Materials and Devices, and the Institute of Energy Efficiency Engineering and Energy Equipment. At present, our college has over 13,000 square meters of teaching and research buildings and engineering development facilities at the Xiang’an Campus of Xiamen University.

College has also independently established the first doctoral program in China for the interdisciplinary first-level discipline of Advanced Energy. It offers doctoral programs in three energy and power specialization areas: Clean Energy Technology, Nuclear Energy Engineering, and Energy Storage Technology. It also runs special joint master’s and doctoral training programs with industry, and offers two undergraduate majors: New Energy Science and Engineering, and Energy Storage Science and Engineering. The undergraduate program in New Energy Science and Engineering was approved in 2013 and was selected as a National First-Class Undergraduate Program in 2022. The undergraduate program in Energy Storage Science and Engineering was approved in 2020. In 2022, its Virtual Teaching and Research Office for Energy Storage Science and Engineering, as the only program in the energy storage category, was selected into the first batch of pilot virtual teaching and research offices by the Ministry of Education, and was awarded the “Three Exemplars” honors for exemplary virtual teaching and research office, exemplary teaching methods, and exemplary teaching achievements.

The College has a strong and high-level faculty team, including Academicians Tian Zhongqun, Sun Shigang, and Zheng Nanfeng, who served respectively as founding dean, discipline leader, and current dean. The faculty also includes 2 recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 1 Young Scholar of the Changjiang Scholars Program, 3 recipients of the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Program (Category B), 4 recipients of the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas), and 1 National Young Top Talent. The College currently has 55 full-time faculty members, including 24 professors, 19 associate professors, and 12 assistant professors; 100% hold doctoral degrees, and 90% have overseas academic experience. In addition, there are 14 engineering staff members (including 1 senior engineer at the professor level, 5 senior engineers, and 8 engineers), 10 full-time administrative and student affairs staff, 15 part-time faculty members, and 17 postdoctoral researchers. Among the talent pool, national-level high-level talents account for approximately 20%, with an additional 37 recognized at the Fujian provincial level and 38 at the Xiamen municipal level.

Currently, our college has 687 students, including 327 undergraduates, 246 masters and 114 doctoral students, with a graduate-to-undergraduate ratio of approximately 0.91:1. Three courses have been selected as First-Class Courses in Fujian Province, and 10 courses have been selected as model courses for curriculum-based ideological and political education at Xiamen University. The College has obtained approval for 1 national and provincial-level teaching reform project, 7 provincial-level teaching reform projects, and 7 teaching reform projects at Xiamen University. The College further strengthens the distinctive features of engineering education through deep integration with leading enterprises and the development of high-level, demand-driven training models aligned with the “New Engineering” initiative. It has established industry - education integration bases with major enterprises such as State Grid Corporation of China, China Energy Investment Corporation, China National Nuclear Power Co., Ltd., Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd., and Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd., cultivating interdisciplinary and innovative engineering talents with all-round development in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education. Students actively participate in domestic and international scientific and technological competitions and have achieved outstanding results, winning awards such as the Gold Prize in the 5th China “Internet+” College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the Gold Prize in the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition, the Special Prize in the final of the 15th National College Students Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Social Practice and Science and Technology Competition, and the Gold Prize in the national finals of the 14th “Challenge Cup” Chinese College Students’ Entrepreneurship Plan Competition. The College actively promotes international talent cultivation, carrying out exchanges and cooperation with leading universities and enterprises in Europe and North America, organizing various international summer camps, and jointly training undergraduate students with University of Birmingham, providing students with opportunities to interact with faculty and students from top universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. Key performance indicators including graduate employment rate, employment satisfaction, employment in key industries, and the contribution rate of high-level papers published by graduate students as first or co-authors, also rank among the top in Xiamen university.

The College has established China’s first integrated multi-ion beam and transmission electron microscopy facility which is a world-leading platform of its kind as well. It has also built six provincial- and ministerial-level research platforms, including sub-centers of the National Energy R&D Center for User-Side Energy Storage and the National Energy R&D Center for Regional Smart Energy System Integration, the Fujian Provincial New Energy Industry Technology Development Base, the Fujian Provincial Engineering Research Center for Biomass Clean and High-Value Utilization Technology, the Fujian Provincial Engineering Research Center for Nuclear Energy, and the Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Storage Technology. The College is an important member of the Jiageng Innovation Laboratory, which benchmarks against national laboratories. Since the beginning of the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the College has secured RMB 402 million in research funding, including RMB 303 million in vertical funding (75%) and RMB 99 million in horizontal funding (25%). For four consecutive years, the per capita research funding of the College has ranked among the top in science, engineering, and medical disciplines within the university. It has newly undertaken more than 300 research projects, including over 120 vertical projects at national, provincial, and municipal levels, and more than 180 horizontal projects. As the first completion unit, it has published more than 535 SCI and EI papers, obtaining over 150 authorized patents, including one invention patent valued at RMB 20 million as equity investment in an innovative enterprise. Many faculty members have received important provincial, ministerial, or industry awards, including the Tencent Scientific Exploration Award, the First Prize of the Science and Technology Invention Award of the China National Light Industry Council, the First Prize of the Fujian Provincial Natural Science Award, the Second Prize of the Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, and the Young Scientist Award of the Hou Debang Science and Technology Award.

The College maintains active academic exchanges and expanding academic influence. It has successfully hosted a series of high-level international conferences, including the 5th International Conference on Applied Energy on Low-Carbon Cities and Urban Energy Systems, the 4th International Conference on Biorefinery and Bioenergy, the International Forum on Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Fuel Cycle, the 2nd Xiamen Forum on Frontiers of Biomass, the 6th Academic Conference on Supercapacitors and Key Materials and the Summit Forum on Talent Cultivation and Industry–Education Integration in Energy Storage, the 7th International Workshop on In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Irradiation, the 2nd International Conference on “Coal Power to Nuclear Power,” the 2024 and 2025 National Symposium on Talent Cultivation and Industry–Education Integration in Energy Storage Disciplines, the 2025 China Energy Storage CEO Summit, and the 9th International Conference on Biomass Energy. It has also hosted the 2024 Academic Conference on Engineering Thermodynamics and Energy Utilization of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics and the Exchange Meeting on the Progress of National Natural Science Foundation projects in this field.

Facing the new centenary, the College persists in being guided by the spirit of President Xi Jinping's important congratulatory letter for the 100th anniversary of the founding of Xiamen University. It strives with vigor, forges ahead, seeks new development, demonstrates new achievements, and makes every effort to write a brand-new chapter in the high-quality development of party building and undertakings of the College of Energy at Xiamen University.

We warmly welcome outstanding students to apply and sincerely invite professionals at home and abroad to join and collaborate.

(Data as of December 31, 2025)