Recently, theWorld Academy of Sciences (TWAS)published a list ofnewly selected academicians on its official website. A total of35 scientists have been selected as new members of TWAS, of which7 are from China.Good news!
Congratulations! Cai Ronggen, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Chief Professor of the School of Fundamental Physics and Mathematical Sciences at the Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), UCAS, has been selected as a member of TWAS.
Cai Ronggen,
Chief Professor of the School of Fundamental Physics and Mathematical Sciences,
was selected as a member of TWAS
Professor Cai Ronggen was selected this time due to hissignificant contributions in the field of gravity and cosmology, especially in the connection between the exact solution of gravity, the holographic nature of gravity, thermodynamics and gravitational dynamics. Professor Cai Ronggen's research achievements have won the second prize of the State Natural Science Award, and the first prize of the Chongqing Natural Science Award, and he was listed as the "Global Highly Cited Researchers" by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters).
TWASwas established on November 10, 1983, with its headquarters in Trieste, Italy. It is a non-governmental, non-political and not-for-profit international scientific organization. It was initiated by Professor Abdus Salam, a Pakistani physicist and Nobel Prize winner in physics. It is committed to supporting and promoting scientific research in developing countries, in which academicians of TWAS are generally elected from famous scientists in developing countries and foreign academicians from famous scientists in developed countries.
With the latest round of staffing increases, the total number of the organization members has reached 1,302, covering 10 major fields: mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geoscience, biology, agronomy, medicine, engineering science, social and economics.
Cai Ronggen
A member of CAS, Chief Professor of the School of Fundamental Physics and Mathematical Sciences at the HIAS.
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He is a research fellow and Academic Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS, and a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and once served as Director, Deputy Director (presiding), and Director of the First Research Office of the Institute of Theoretical Physics.
In 1985, he graduated from the Department of Physics of Hangzhou Normal University with a bachelor's degree. In 1987, he graduated from the Department of Physics of Sichuan University with a master's degree in theoretical physics. He once taught in the Department of Physics of Qinghai Normal University. In 1995, he received a Doctor of Science degree from Fudan University. He has successively engaged in postdoctoral research at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS, the Center for Theoretical Physics of Seoul National University, South Korea, and the Department of Physics of Osaka University, Japan.
He was funded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2003, selected as a national candidate for the New Century Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Project in 2006, granted a special government allowance by the State Council in 2006, won the second prize of the State Natural Science Award in 2011, the first prize of Chongqing Natural Science Award, and was listed as the "Global Highly Cited Researchers" by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) in 2014. From 2014 to 2018, he was selected into the list of Highly Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier.
In 2016, he was selected as the leading talent of the Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Project of the Ten Thousand Talents Program launched by the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). In November 2017, he was selected as a new member of the CAS. In 2019, he was selected as a member of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, and in December 2020, he was selected as a new member of TWAS.
He is currently the Executive Director of the Chinese Physical Society, Director of the Academic Exchange Committee of the Chinese Physical Society, Director of the Division of Gravitation and Relativistic Astrophysics of the Chinese Physical Society, a council member of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, Vice President of the Astrophysics, Gravity and Cosmology Division of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies, and President of the BRICS Association of Gravity Astrophysics and Cosmology. He also serves as Director of the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP), and the project leader of the Key Project of "Research on Physical Problems Related to Gravitational Waves" of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
His research fields are gravitational theory and cosmology, and he has published more than 260 papers, which have been cited more than 15,000 times, with an h-index of 68.
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