Five scientists in Shanghai were elected, and the co-optation of foreign academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering was announced

Release time:Apr 24, 2024 03:38 AM

Today, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering announced the list of foreign academicians to be co-elected in 2023. Five scientists working in Shanghai were elected: Andrew Cooper, Philip John Russell, Dale Sanders, Yuan Junying, and Eric Daniel Jacques Gilson.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences elected 30 foreign academicians this year, four of whom are scientists working in Shanghai.

Cooper is a British materials scientist, an honorary professor at East China University of Science and Technology, an academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and an academician of the European Academy of Sciences. He is engaged in research on advanced organic functional materials and their research and development methodologies, and has pioneered multiple material fields such as conjugated microporous polymers, porous organic cages, and porous liquids.

Russell is an Irish and British scientist and an academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences. He invented photonic crystal fiber. He once served as the chairman of the Chinese Optical Society and is now a distinguished professor at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Einstein Chair Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Saunders is a British scientist and a member of the Council of the Royal Society. As a leader in the fields of plant ion signaling and mineral nutrition, he has researched on the molecular characteristics of calcium channels, membrane transporters and cereal biofortification, cell signaling and ion permeability. A number of breakthrough results were achieved in the research. He works at the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is the winner of the China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award and the Chinese Academy of Sciences International Scientific Cooperation Award.

Yuan Junying is an American molecular biologist, an academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an academician of the National Academy of Sciences, and the director of the Biology and Chemistry Interdisciplinary Research Center of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. This female scientist is mainly engaged in research on cell death mechanisms and is the first discoverer of cell death genes in the world.

The Chinese Academy of Engineering elected 16 foreign academicians this year. Among them, French scientist Gilson works at Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine as "Guangci Laureate Professor" and chief chair professor and consultant of the Geriatric Medicine Center. He is engaged in telomere-related chromatin structure, epigenetic research, and telomere-based cellular aging and tumorigenesis research, which has had a significant impact on chromosome functional organization, cell cycle, and aging research.

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