Yang Fujia

Former President of Fudan University, President of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Yang Fujia is Professor of Physics at Fudan University and has been an academician of the Chinese Academy of Science and Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences since 1991.Professor Yang has served as Vice President of the Seventh National Committee of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology, President of Shanghai Association for Science and Technology (1992-1996), Director of Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1987-2001), President of Fudan University (1993-1999), the founding President of the Association of University Presidents of China  (1997-1999), Executive Director of the International Association of University Presidents (1996 till now), Chancellor of University of Nottingham (2000-2012), President of University of Nottingham Ningbo China (2004 till now). He is also member of CPC Central Research Institute of Culture and History, member of National Education Advisory Committee, member of National Education Test Steering Committee, member of NTI's Board of Directors, international consultant of Raman University of Malaysia, and member of International Advisory Committee of the University of Texas at Dallas. Professor Yang served as a special advisor to President of the University of Hong Kong from 1996 to 2006.

Professor Young has authored Atomic and Nuclear Physics, Atomic Physics (The Third Edition), and co-authored Modern Atomic and Nuclear Physics with J. H. Hamilton (English Version, published by McGraw-Hill Companies, 1996). Atomic and Nuclear Physics has won the 2nd Prize of National Teaching Achievement in 1997. Atomic Physics (The Third Edition) was awarded the 2nd Prize of National Excellent Textbooks in 2002, and the fourth edition received the Ministry of Education Excellent Higher Education Textbook Award in 2009. His other publications include, From Fudan to Nottingham (2013), Rich in Knowledge and Tenacious of Purpose, Inquiring with Earnestness and Reflecting with Self-Practice: Yang Fujia's Thoughts on Science and Humanities (2016, edited by Fang Honghui and Chen Jianxin), and the fourth edition of Liberal Education will be published in April 2017.

Professor Yang was selected as Chinese National Outstanding Expert in Science & Technology by the State Science and Technology Commission in 1984 and as a special member of Chinese Centre of Advanced Sciences and Technology (chaired by Prof. T. D. Lee) in 1988. He was given an honorary professorship at Vanderbilt University, USA in 1998. He holds honorary degrees from Soka University (1995), the State University of New York (1998), the University of Hong Kong (1999), the University of Nottingham (1999), the University of Connecticut (2002), Macau University of Science and Technology (2010), Chinese University of Hong Kong (2013), and Lingnan University (2016).