Xu Hongxing

Xu Hongxing (Chinese: 徐红星; born May 1969) is a Chinese physicist and vice president of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Wuhan University. He is also a professor at the School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University.

Xu Hongxing
BornMay 1969 (age 51)
Lianyungang, Jiangsu
NationalityChinese
Alma materPeking University
Chalmers University of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsPhotonics
InstitutionsInstitute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese徐紅星
Simplified Chinese徐红星
In this Chinese name, the family name is Xu.

Biography

Xu was born in Lianyungang, Jiangsu in May 1969. After graduating from Banpu High School in 1988, he was accepted to Peking University. In 1996 he pursued advanced studies in Sweden, earning his master's degree and doctor's degree from Chalmers University of Technology in 1998 and 2002, respectively.

In August 2002 he was promoted to associate professor at Chalmers University of Technology. He returned to China in January 2005 and that year became a researcher at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was deputy director of the State Key Laboratory for Surface Physics from 2007 to 2008 and director of Nanoscale Physics & Devices Laboratory from 2009 to 2014. He joined the Communist Party of China in May 2011. In September 2012, he joined Wuhan University as professor and director of Center for Nanoscience and Technology. He was appointed as a "Chang Jiang Scholar" (or " Yangtze River Scholar") by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in 2014.

Honour

In November 2017 he was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).[1]

In 2018 he became a member of the Chinese Optical Society. That same year, he was elected a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences.[2]

References
  1. 北京大学9位校友新当选两院院士. Peking University (in Chinese). 29 November 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  2. 14名中国大陆科学家当选发展中国家科学院院士. gov.cn (in Chinese). 28 November 2018. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
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