Professor Yang Fujia is one of China’s most distinguished physicists pioneering research in ion beam emissions. He served as President of Fudan University in Shanghai for six years from 1992 to early this year and is currently Director of the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research, of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also Niels Bohr Professor of Physics at Fudan University.
Soon after graduating from Fudan with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics he started his career as an educator by becoming a teaching assistant at his alma mater. He rose through the ranks to become Vice-Chairman, Associate Professor and Dean of Fudan’s Nuclear Science Department before being appointed Professor in 1980. In 1983, he became Director of the Modern Physics Research Institute. Between 1987 and 1991 he was Dean of Fudan’s Graduate School before becoming President of the University the following year.
His reputation as both educationalist and physicist have won him recognition nationally and internationally. He has been Director of the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research since 1987; between 1992 and 1996 he was Chairman of the Shanghai Association of Science and Technology, and is present an Honorary Member.
Currently Professor Yang is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Executive Director of the Shanghai Nuclear Technology Society, Executive Member of the China Physics Society and of the International Association of University Presidents. He is also Chairman of the Association of University Presidents of China.
In recognition of his services to the advancement of science and technology, the University has resolved to confer upon him the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa.
