The Chinese government conferred its International Science and Technology Cooperation Award to eight foreign scientists for their contributions to China's science and technology development on February 14, 2012.
Among them, Professor Andreas Dress from Germany, Professor Aikichi Iwamoto from Japan, Professor Stephen Porter from USA and Professor G. Q. Max Lu, a Chinese Australian were in collaboration with institutes of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Professor Andreas Dress
Under his guidance, the institute focuses on four major research directions: biomathematics, computational genomics, computational protein science and computational system biology, forming a strategic, systematic layout of computational biology research and playing a positive role in promoting discipline development. During his work in Shanghai, the research group headed by him, has made academic contributions recognized by international peers in creating topological proteomics, development of mathematical combination of evolutionary biology, exploring the complex network analysis and optimization, and other scientific research areas.
Professor Dress emphasizes on scientific cooperation and exchanges. In five years, the institute organized a large number of international academic activities, hosted international training courses of computational biology and established long-term cooperation projects and joint graduate training programs with nearly 30 foreign research institutes. As an outstanding scientists, Professor Andreas Dress has made recognized contributions to Chinese scientific research, and enhances friendship between Chinese and foreign scientists.
Professor Aikichi Iwamoto
Prof. Iwamoto has visited China many times since 2003 and made significant contribution to the establishment of a collaborative agreement between the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the University of Tokyo (UT) which laid the foundation for the opening of the Sino-Japanese Joint Laboratory of Structural Virology and Immunology at the CAS Institute of Biophysics, and the Sino-Japanese Joint Laboratory of Molecular Immunology and Molecular Microbiology at the CAS Institute of Microbiology, under the Initiative for Global Research Networks on Infectious Diseases which was sponsored by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2005. The two joint laboratories, recognized in 2006 by both Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and China’s Ministry of Science and Technology as Sino-Japanese Intergovernmental S&T Collaboration Projects, have effectively promoted and facilitated research collaboration in the fields of microbiology, immunology and epidemiology over the past five years. In the past five years, the Japanese side has invested about 150 million RMB yuan in the two joint labs, and has sent five Japanese scientists to do research in China. During the same peoriod, several Chinese scientists have been working at the labs in Japan.
In 2010, both the CAS and the UT made a joint commitment to collaborate for another five years. Prof. Iwamoto has also been actively engaged in promoting collaboration between the CAS Beijing Institute of Life Sciences, and IMSUT, thus broadening and extending the scope and scale of bilateral collaborations.
Professor Stephen Porter
Stephen Porter is a visiting professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is passionate about research on Chinese loess. In joint research, Prof. Porter and Prof. An Zhisheng were the first to detect the Heinrich event in Chinese loess. They compared this with North Atlantic sediments and raised the possibility of teleconnection with climate, resulting in a theoretical breakthrough in research on regional and global links in dynamics research. He has established good cooperative ties with Chinese scholars over the past years and fostered exchanges and cooperation between Chinese young scientists and their international peers. Many young Chinese Quaternary scientists who have benefited from his guidance are now the backbones of certain research fields and have become major contributors in Chinese Quaternary research.
Professor G. Q. Max Lu
Professor Lu has established long-term fruitful cooperative ties with several institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). In particular, he has cooperated closely with the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in the field of clean energy materials and has completed a number of joint international projects, which significantly promoted the development of materials for photocatalysis, energy storage, and green catalysis. He has shown devotion to training young CAS researchers in these areas, and has visited IMR 19 times and co-supervised 10 graduates for PhD and Master’s degrees. Four IMR graduates have conducted research in his group for periods longer than one year. He has also actively facilitated cooperation between the ATSE and the CAS. In 2005, he submitted a report entitled New Energy Materials Progress and Outlook to CAS, which was beneficial in guiding the development of new energy materials. Representing the Australian Academy of Sciences and ATSE, he attended the 4th CAS Forum, and provided much helpful advice on collaborations on clean energy materials.
The awards were conferred at a ceremony held for China's annual national science and technology awards in the Great Hall of the People.
The International Science and Technology Cooperation Award was launched in 1994 by the State Council. Up to 10 foreign individuals and organizations each year can receive the award.
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