高志勇，山西中阳人，国家级高层次人才（2021）、国家级高层次青年人才（2019）、国家重点研发计划项目首席科学家（2023）、湖南省科技创新领军人才（2021）、湖南省湖湘青年英才（2018），获Minerals Engineering International Young Person's Award（亚洲首位，2019）、IJMMM鼎新青年科学家奖（2024）、全国有色金属优秀青年科技奖（2022）、全国绿色矿山青年科技奖（2020）、全国最美科技工作者（提名奖，2022）、湖南省杰出青年科学基金（2019）。2003年进入中南大学矿物加工工程专业读本科并保送读研读博，2013年博士毕业后留校任教。现任中南大学资源加工与生物工程学院副院长、教授、博士生导师，战略含钙矿物资源清洁高效利用湖南省重点实验室主任，湖南省关键金属矿产资源高效清洁利用国际联合研究中心主任，金属资源开发利用碳减排教育部工程研究中心常务副主任，复杂矿产资源高效清洁利用科学与技术国家创新引智基地常务副主任。

主要从事矿物资源低碳清洁利用方面的研究，主持国家重点研发计划项目（2项，2023YFC3904200、2021YFE0106800）、国家自然科学联合基金重点项目（2项，U23A20602、U2067201）、新疆自治区重点研发任务专项、湖南省重点研发计划项目等省部级及以上科研项目15项，以第1完成人获湖南省自然科学二等奖1项，参与的项目获国家科技进步二等奖1项，省部级和行业协会科技奖一等奖4项。共同主编国家行业规划教材2部，主讲的两门课程分别入选湖南省一流本科课程、湖南省研究生精品示范课程。以第2完成人获中国有色金属学会高等教育教学成果特等奖、一等奖各1项。带领中南大学有色金属资源低碳开发利用研究团队入选湖南省青年五四奖章集体（2022）。

中国国际矿物加工青年学者论坛发起人、大会主席，国际矿物加工理事会教育分会委员，国际浮选大会圆桌论坛中国代表，国际矿物加工大会浮选分会场共同召集人，中国有色金属学会矿冶过程界面化学专业委员会秘书长、青年工作委员会副秘书长，湖南有色金属学会选矿学术委员会主任，学科排名第1的SCI期刊Minerals Engineering的编委（亚洲区主编），Minerals等三个学科主流SCI期刊的副主编，绿色矿山、矿产保护与利用、矿产综合利用、矿冶等国内期刊的编委（副主编），中南大学学术委员会工业学部副主任。

Prof Zhiyong Gao received his Ph.D degree in Minerals Processing Engineering from Central South University (CSU), China in 2013, and has been a professor and vice dean in the School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering at CSU since 2019. His research interests embrace mineral crystal chemistry, flotation reagent design, and grinding media technology. The surface broken bond density (Db) index proposed by Zhiyong Gao has been widely accepted as a rapid way to study mineral surfaces and to assess their surface reactivity. This Db index has interestingly also been more widely recognized and applied in such different areas as material science, crystal growth, geochemistry, mineralogy, etc. Zhiyong’s research activities have also included extensive use of AFM and DFT on molecular recognition for the development of a series of novel collectors and reagent mixtures for improving the separation selectivity when treating different minerals. Zhiyong has developed a method to regulate the crystal surface exposure and hence particle reactivity of different minerals by optimizing the grinding media parameters. Based on these fundamental studies, various new reagent schemes and grind technologies have been developed and utilized to optimize the currently used separation process and address key environmental and energy-related challenges in mineral processing. 

He has published 90+ papers with a H-index of 44 and 6000+ citations (Google Scholar). He also held 30+ authorized patents. He has received numerous awards and honors including the MEI Young Person's Award(2019), IJMMM Young Scientist Award (2024), the China-Australia Young Scientist Exchange Award (2020), the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, and the Young Elite Scientists Award by China Association for Science and Technology (2017). Zhiyong has contributed significantly to the scientific community by serving, for example, on the editorial boards of several journals (including Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing since 2016, Minerals since 2017, Minerals Engineering since 2021, IJMMM since 2023) and committee memberships. In 2017, Zhiyong initiated and chaired the 1st China International Conference of Young Scholars in Mineral Processing which is now a well-known annual event in mineral processing community. He has been invited to give plenary/keynote/invited presentations and chair sessions in International Mineral Processing Congress, International Flotation Conferences, International Mineral Processing and Recycling Conference, SME, TMS, etc. He and his international collaborators also established the China-Australia / China-South Africa Joint Research Centre for Mineral Flotation Chemistry.