Prof. Dr. Klaus von Klitzing is the Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany.

Earlier in his career, Professor Smale was involved in controversy over remarks he made regarding his work habits while proving the higher-dimensional Poincaré conjecture. He said that his best work had been done "on the beaches of Rio". This led to the withholding of his grant money from the NSF. He has been politically active in various movements in the past, such as the Free Speech movement. At one time he was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Professor Jean Salençon is Honorary Professor at the École polytechnique and the École nationale des ponts et chaussées (France). He was Chair professor-at-Largee and Visiting Distinguished professor at the City University of Hong Kong (2011-2016).

Professor Mu-ming Poo obtained his Ph.D in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University in 1974. He did postdoctoral research at Purdue University, and later served on the faculty of University of California at Irvine, Yale University School of Medicine, Columbia University, UCSD, and University of California, Berkeley.

 

Professor Poo is currently the Scientific Director of Institute of Neuroscience of Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), an institute he had served as the founding director during 1999 to 2019. 

 

Professor Benoît Perthame is an outstanding mathematician, very well known for several landmark contributions to nonlinear partial differential equations. He also possesses the unusual characteristic that he is applying his great mathematical skills to mathematical modeling in biology and to the analysis of the resulting equations. This is a relatively recent field, which is now recognized as a prominent one, in which he began his works about thirty years ago.

Professor Sir John Pendry received his Ph.D. in Solid State Theory from the University of Cambridge in 1969. He began his career in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (where he was a Fellow of Downing College), Bell Laboratories and Daresbury Laboratory. Since 1981, he has been the Chair in Theoretical Solid-State Physics in the Imperial College London where he has served as Dean, Head of Physics Department (1998-2001), and subsequently Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences (2001-2002).

Giorgio Parisi was born in Rome August 4, 1948, he completed his studies at the University of Rome and he graduated in physics in 1970 under the direction of Nicola Cabibbo.

He carried out his research at the National Laboratories of Frascati, first as a fellow of the CNR (1971-1973) and later as a researcher of the INFN (1973-1981). During this period he made long stays abroad: Columbia University, New York (1973-1974), Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvettes (1976-1977), Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (1977-1978).

白先勇，于1956年在建国中学毕业后，由于他梦想参与兴建三峡大坝工程，以第一志愿考取成功大学水利工程学系。翌年发现兴趣不合，转学台湾大学外国语文学系，改读英国文学。1958年，他在《文学杂志》发表了第一篇短篇小说《金大奶奶》。两年后，他与台大的同学欧阳子、陈若曦、王文兴等共同创办了《现代文学》杂志，并在此发表了《月梦》、《玉卿嫂》、《毕业》等小说多篇。

1962年，他飞往美国爱荷华大学的爱荷华作家工作室学习文学理论和创作研究。1965年，取得爱荷华大学硕士学位后，白先勇到加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校教授中国语文及文学，并从此在那里定居。1994年退休。

白先勇出版有短篇小说集《寂寞的十七岁》、《台北人》、《纽约客》，散文集《蓦然回首》，长篇小说《孽子》等。

Professor Alison Noble CBE FRS FREng FIET is currently the Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering in Department of Engineering Science and a Professorial Fellow of St Hilda's College, at the University of Oxford, UK. She is a former Director of the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering (2012-16).

Tobin J. Marks is Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,  Professor of Applied Physics, and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University, and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M Qatar University.