Singapore's top university loses chemistry chief to year-old Chinese school

VNExpress - Sep 23, 2026

Lu Yixin, head of chemistry at the National University of Singapore, will join China's Eastern Institute of Technology in January 2027, the second senior academic to leave Singapore for the school in six weeks.

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