LI Jinghai and ZHANG Jie, both members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) were elected as the International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) at its annual general meeting in London on July 12, 2011.
LI, also Vice-President of the CAS and academician of TWAS (The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World) and SATW (Schweizeriache Akademie der Technischen Wissenschaften), is a chemical engineer engaged in quantitative design and scale-up studies of particle-fluid systems. He formulated the variational criterion for the heterogeneous flow structure of particle-fluid systems which led to the establishment of the Energy-Minimization Multi-Scale (EMMS) model.
ZHANG is currently President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and academician of TWAS and German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina. He received his PhD in Optical and Atomic & Molecular Physics from the Institute of Plasma Physics, CAS. ZHANG is best known for his research achievements in such areas as x-ray lasers, high field physics, and laser-plasma physics.
RAE announced its new President at the meeting. A total of 59 new Fellows, including 50 UK Fellows, six International Fellows and three Honorary Fellows, joined the Academy this year, representing the most eminent names in the profession from the UK and overseas.
As a British learned society concerned with engineering, RAE selects about 60 distinguished Fellows by invitation every year. It aims to take advantage of the enormous wealth of engineering knowledge they possess and provide a unique breadth of engineering experience to further the art and practice of engineering in all its forms.
(selected from CAS website)
