The Sino-foreign cooperative university, the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, welcomes its new president.
According to an announcement made by the University of Nottingham Ningbo China through its official WeChat account on March 7th, Professor Xie Xincheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, has officially taken office as the president of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He becomes the second president since the founding of the university, following Academician Yang Fujia.
Xie Xinchen's WeChat Official Account: @University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Public records indicate that Xie Xinchen was born in February 1959 in Nanjing, Jiangsu. He graduated from the Department of Modern Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China in 1982 and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, USA, in 1988. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Washington and the University of Maryland in the USA.
From 1991 to 2010, Xie Xinchen served in the Physics Department at Oklahoma State University in the United States, where he held positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, University Trustee, and Distinguished Lecture Professor. In May 2002, he returned to China to join the International Center for Quantum Structures at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he served as the center's director. From 2005 to 2010, he was the Director of the Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and Computational Material Science at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Chief Scientist. Since 2010, he has been a Chair Professor at the School of Physics, Peking University, where he has also served as the founding director of the Center for Quantum Material Science (2010-2011) and the Dean of the School of Physics (2011-2018). From 2016 to 2018, he was the Director of the Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and since 2018, he has served as the Vice President of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
He was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences in 2015, as a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2018, and as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2008.
Xie Xinchen has been dedicated to the theoretical study of condensed matter physics and has made significant innovative contributions to the discovery and understanding of new quantum phenomena in fields such as the quantum Hall effect, charge and spin transport, and low-dimensional quantum systems, with a special focus on fostering deep integration between theoretical and experimental research.
The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, established in 2004 with approval from the Ministry of Education, is the first Sino-foreign university in China with its own campus and legal entity status. It is also a member of the University of Nottingham's global education network.
On July 17, 2022, nuclear physicist, educator, former President of Fudan University, and former President of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Professor Yang Fujia, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a senior curator of the Central Literature and History Museum, passed away in Shanghai due to illness at the age of 86.
Born in June 1936, Yang Fujia served as the President of the University of Nottingham in the UK from 2001, becoming the first Chinese to hold the presidency at a prestigious British university. Following the establishment of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, he also served as the first President of the university.
