On July 1, the Institute of Modern Biology of Nanjing University announced that Shuai Ke, a top international scholar in the field of life sciences and a former tenured full professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has joined the institute full-time.
Just a week ago, Tsinghua University also announced that Caucher Birkar, a former Professor at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, officially joined Tsinghua University.
In fact, since last year, domestic universities have continuously reported the news that top scholars have given up their foreign teaching positions to join. The Science Network has sorted this out.
Top scholars resigned from tenured teaching positions in the United States and joined NTU
According to the website of the Institute of Modern Biology of Nanjing University (hereinafter referred to as the Institute of Modern Biology of Nanjing University), Shuai Ke is the main discoverer of the famous JAK-STAT signaling pathway, the discoverer of the PIAS (Protein Inhibitor of Activated STAT) family protein, and the top scholar in the field of global cell signaling and new drug research and development.
He recently resigned from his tenured teaching position in the United States and officially joined Nanjing University.
Shuai
He received his Ph.D. from the prestigious Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1990 and immediately attended Rockefeller University under the renowned scholar James E. Darnell conducts postdoctoral research. In 1994, Shuai ke joined UCLA and became a tenured full professor at UCLA in 2004.
According to the news on the website of the institute, after joining NTU, Shuai Ke will work with Lin Anning, who resigned from the University of Chicago last year and returned to China full-time to join Dean Lin Anning of NTU, to build the institute into a world-class biomedical research center.
In October 2020, NTU's official website announced that Anning Lin, the discoverer of the JNK pathway, the world's top scholar in the field of cell signal transduction research, and a full-time professor in the Department of Cancer Biology at the University of Chicago, joined Nanjing University full-time and was hired as the dean of the newly established Institute of Modern Biology.
Lin Anning
Lin received his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 1990 and subsequently did postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Diego. Since 2006, he has been a tenured professor in the Department of Cancer Biology at Ben May, University of Chicago.
It is worth noting that another top scholar will recently join NTU - Louisiana State University Professor Bao Huiming. In March 2020, Bao Huiming announced that he had submitted his resignation letter and would officially become a full professor at Nanjing University at the end of August 2021.
Bao Huiming
Originally a professor at Louisiana State University, Bao graduated from the Department of Geology of Peking University in 1986, received his Ph.D. in geochemistry from Princeton University in 1998, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego from 1998 to 2001. He has taught at Louisiana State University since 2001 and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.
Domestic universities have successively "officially announced" the world's top scholars to join
Science Network noted that since last year, a number of top foreign scholars have chosen to teach in China and attracted attention.
On September 24, 2020, the news that two top scholars returned to China to teach was officially announced on the same day, which is still fresh in people's minds.
On the same day, the official website of Peking University released the news that Zhu Songchun, a top scholar in the field of artificial intelligence and former UCLA professor, was hired as the dean of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Peking University.
Zhu Songchun
In the 1990s, Zhu Songchun took the lead in introducing probabilistic and statistical modeling and stochastic computing methods into computer vision research, proposed a series of structural interpretation frameworks, mathematical models and statistical algorithms for images and videos, and developed the theory of generalized patterns. He has made outstanding contributions in the fields of cognitive science, such as visual attempted reasoning, scene understanding, and artificial intelligence.
On the same day, Zhejiang University held an appointment ceremony to announce that Gu Zhen, an internationally renowned scholar in the field of pharmaceutical preparations and biomaterials, joined Zhejiang University full-time as a chair professor and was appointed as the dean of the School of Pharmacy.
Gu Zhen
Zhen Gu has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/North Carolina State University, was named a Jackson Family Distinguished Chair Professor, and was a full professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA and director of the Biotechnology/Biomedical and Engineering Training Center.
Since the beginning of this year, there have been a number of top foreign scholars joining domestic universities full-time. Take this past June as an example:
On June 1, Liu Yifeng, a yale professor at Zhejiang University, officially joined Zhejiang University after 85 years. He will be the fourth permanent member of the university's Institute for Advanced Studies in Mathematics.
Liu Yifeng
According to the official website of the Institute of Advanced Mathematics of Zhejiang University, Liu Yifeng received a bachelor's degree from Peking University in 2007 and a doctorate from Columbia University in 2012, and has served as a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012-2015), an assistant professor at Northwestern University (2015-2018), and an associate professor and professor at Yale University (2018-2021). Yifeng Liu's research interests include algebraic number theory, self-preserving forms, and algebraic geometry. In 2017, he received the American Sloan Research Prize and in 2018 he received the Ramanukin Prize.
On June 21, the official website of Westlake University announced that Jiang Hanqing, a professor at Arizona State University, and his team officially joined the School of Engineering of Westlake University.
Jiang Hanqing
Hanqing Jiang received his Ph.D. in mechanics from Tsinghua University in 2001, joined Arizona State University in 2006, and received the position of full professor in 2016. Mainly engaged in the research of flexible electronics and soft/hard heterogeneous materials.
On the eve of joining Westlake University, Jiang hanqing had just received the Worcester Reed Warner Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for his pioneering contribution to "combining a hard film with a soft substrate to explore the structure's postflexion properties during large deformations and apply it in many fields."
It is worth noting that in addition to the Chinese scholars choosing to "return", some top non-Chinese scientists have also begun to teach in well-known universities in China. The most talked about is the news of the entry of Fields Medal winner Kauchel Birkar to Tsinghua.
According to the official website of Tsinghua University, this is the first time that Chinese universities have introduced non-Chinese Fields Medal winners. After joining Tsinghua, Birkar will teach at Qiuzhen College and participate in the promotion of the "Qiu Chengtong Mathematics Leadership Talent Training Program".
On June 25, Tsinghua University held the appointment ceremony of Professor Cocher Birkar, winner of the Fields Medal.
Kouchel Birkar
Born in Iran, Kocher Birkar is a British mathematician and former professor at Cambridge University. He received his PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2004 and has made important contributions in the field of double rational geometry, particularly in presenting his views on minimal models, singularities and linear systems. In 2018, with his breakthrough in the field of double rational geometry, he was awarded the Fields Medal, known as the "Nobel Prize of mathematics", at the age of less than 40.
With more and more top scholars joining domestic universities full-time, the return of talents is accelerating.
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Source: Science Network