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The Path Towards Excellence
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Journey to Becoming a World Class University
Jie Zhang, Ph.D. and President
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Time: September 23, 3:30 – 4:30 pm
Location: Electrical Engineering Building (EEB), room 037 (upper basement)
Abstract: Shanghai Jiao Tong University is one of the two universities in China that have the longest history, yet it is now widely known as the most dynamic institution in the nation.
Innovation is one of the key characteristics of the university. Whether a university could contribute to the society by constantly generating innovations depends on its capacity in motivating its faculty to produce innovative outcomes, guaranteeing an institution holding priority on scholarship, and developing the campus culture that persistently stimulate the faculty towards self-realization and sustained growth. In the recent ten years, Shanghai Jiao Tong University has been implementing a series of reforming measures with institutional incentives as the core, and spectacular accomplishments have emerged in education, research, serving the community and international fame. The three structures of excellence respectively in creative talent growth, science and technology innovation and cultural heritage and spiritual guidance, which are in accordance with societal needs, have unfolded.
Hence, SJTU has through its strenuous efforts become a domestically top and globally well-famed university with three distinctive features of comprehensiveness, research-intensiveness and internationalization. The university will continue to embrace the global vision and innovative mind to fulfill its mission of seeking the truth and spreading civilization for the betterment of the society.
Bio: Jie Zhang, the 39th President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, is also a prominent scientist for his pioneering work in laser-plasma physics and high field physics. He is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Foreign member of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) and Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
Jie Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in 1988 from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). From 1989 to 1998, he successively stayed at Max-Planck-Institute for Quantenoptik in Germany, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the University of Oxford as visiting scholar. After that, he took the post of Deputy Director of the Institute of Physics, CAS in 1999 and then Director General of the Bureau of Basic Sciences, CAS in 2003. In 2006, he was appointed 39th President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
His research has been acknowledged by TWAS with the 2007 TWAS Prize in Physics; by the Chinese State Council with the State Natural Sciences Prize in 2006; by the Hong Kong Ho-Leung-Ho-Lee Foundation with the award of the Science and Technology Progress Award in 2006; by the Overseas Chinese Physical Society (USA) with the 2004 Achievement in Asia Award; by the Chinese Physical Society with the 2003 CPS Rao Yutai Award in Physics; by the Chinese Optical Society with the 2002 COS Wang Daheng Award in Optics; by the Hong Kong Qiushi Foundation with the Qiushi Award for Outstanding Young Scientists in 1999, etc. |
