He Song, born in April 1986 in Jiangshan, a county-level city of Quzhou in East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/qz123.com]

The winners of the fifth Xplorer Prize were announced on July 17, with Quzhou-born young scientist He Song among them.

Over the next five years, he will receive 3 million yuan ($416,780) to be used freely from the Tencent Foundation.

The Xplorer Prize was established in 2018 by 14 well-known scientists, including Yang Zhenning, Rao Yi, Shi Yigong, and Ma Huateng, the founder of the Tencent Foundation.

The prize supports outstanding young scientists under the age of 45 who conduct scientific research full-time in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong or Macau. A total of 248 scientists have won the award so far.

He Song, born in April 1986 in Jiangshan, a county-level city of Quzhou in East China's Zhejiang province, completed his doctoral studies in theoretical physics in four years and received his doctorate in July 2009.

He also served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany from September 2009 to August 2012. From September 2012 to August 2015, he served as a joint postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada.

He is also a well-known young scholar in the field of high-energy theoretical physics and has been active in cutting-edge fields such as quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and string theory, making a series of breakthroughs.