On April 28, 2022 local time, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) announced the latest batch of academicians, and more than 261 people from the fields of mathematical sciences, life sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, public affairs, business and administrative management were elected as 2022 AAAS academicians (or foreign academicians) in recognition of their outstanding achievements in their respective fields.
It includes 7 Scholars of Chinese Descent (in order of last name):
Chenghua Gu is a professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and a researcher at the Howard Hughes Institute of Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree in veterinary medicine from China Agricultural University in 1994 and his Ph.D. in molecular cell biology and genetics from Cornell University in 1999. In 2017, he was appointed as a professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard University.
Gu Chenghua's current research interests are molecular mechanisms related to the blood-brain barrier and neurobiological and vascular biology. "The aim of our research is to understand how the neural and vascular systems coordinate to develop, communicate, and work together to ensure the normal functioning of the brain."
Zihe Rao, professor of Tsinghua University, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is currently a member of the Presidium of the Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the director of the Advisory Review Committee of the Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the standing committee member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the honorary chairman of the Chinese Biophysical Society, the founding chairman of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology Life Science Society Consortium, the president of Nankai University, the director of the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the chairman of the International Biophysical Union (IUPAB).
Rao Zihe and his team have long been engaged in the three-dimensional structure research and innovative drug research of pathogens of emerging infectious diseases, and have made systematic and innovative contributions to the mechanism research of important pathogens such as influenza virus, SARS and new crown virus, HIV, hepatitis A virus, hand-foot-and-mouth virus, herpes virus, African swine fever virus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
During the COVID-19 epidemic, Rao Zi and his team achieved systematic results in the research of viral target mechanism, antiviral drugs, antibodies and vaccines, published 7 papers in the three main journals, 8 other papers, 5 neutralizing antibodies and drugs into the clinic, actively participated in the research and development of Sinopharm and Kexing inactivated vaccines, and made important contributions to the research and control of the new crown virus.
Huang Zuoshi (Z. Huang Josh Huang is a visiting professor at Duke University School of Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from Fudan University in 1985, his master's degree in neurophysiology from Arizona State University in 1989, and his Ph.D. in molecular genetics from Brandeis University in 1995.
Huang Zuoshi's team is dedicated to studying the development and function of cortical circuits behind motor control and cognitive processes. Its research program integrates approaches ranging from genetic engineering to single-cell genomics, developmental neurobiology, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and behavioral analysis to connect basic neuroscience to the understanding and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.
Li Shuicheng is a chair professor at Sichuan University and a standing director of the Chinese Archaeological Society. He graduated from the Department of History of Peking University in 1982, studied for a master's degree in the Department of Archaeology of Peking University from 1985 to 1988, and received a doctorate in history in 1996. From May 1999 to September 2000, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University, and from March to May 2006, he was a visiting scholar at the Macdonald Institute of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, Uk.
Li Shuicheng's main research directions include Neolithic archaeology, early East-West cultural exchanges, agricultural origins, salt industry archaeology, metallurgical history and environmental archaeology. His major academic monographs include "Research on Colored Pottery in the Mid-Levels and Machang", "East Wind and Westward Gradual: The Process of Prehistoric Culture in Northwest China", "Prehistoric Archaeological Survey Report of Hexi Corridor", "Archaeology of China's Salt Industry", etc.
Yiyun Li is a Chinese writer in the United States. After graduating from the School of Life Sciences of Peking University in 1996, he began writing in English during his doctorate in immunology in the United States, and then gave up the immunology major to devote himself to English literature. He is the author of a collection of short stories, "A Thousand Years of Cultivation to Sleep Together" and other works. In 2010, he was selected by The New Yorker as one of the 20 most outstanding young novelists under the age of 40.
Sijue Wu is a Professor Robert W. and Lynne H. Browne in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Peking University in 1983 and 1986, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1990.
Wu's main research direction is harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. She is a veteran expert in the field of water waves problems and has made a number of outstanding contributions to the problems related to the appropriateness of water wave problem solutions. In 2002, he was invited to give a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), and won the 2001 American Mathematical Society Satter Prize, the 2nd Morningside Mathematics Silver Medal in 2001, the 5th Morningside Mathematics Gold Medal in 2010 (now the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) Award).
Min Zhou is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Walter and Shirley Wang Chair Professor of U.S.-China Relations and Communication, and Director of the Center for Asia-Pacific. He was the first president of the Department of Asian American Studies at UCLA (2001-2005). From 2013 to 2016, he was the Tan Liu Ling Chair Professor, Director of the Department of Sociology, and Director of the Chinese Center at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Her main research interests include immigration and development, Chinese expatriates, races and ethnicities, Asian and Asian Americas, and urban sociology, and has done a lot of work in immigrant transnationalism, intra-Asian immigration, overseas Chinese, new second generation, Asian Americans, immigrant entrepreneurship, ethnic language media, and ethnic auxiliary education systems. He is the author of "The Paradox of Asian American Achievement" and other academic works. He received the 2017 American Sociological Association (ASA) Outstanding Occupation Award for the International Immigration Department and the 2020 ASA Asian and Asian American Field Contribution Award.
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