Occupation Educator Name Xu Ningsheng | Succeeded by Luo Jun Residence Shanghai, China Nationality Chinese | |
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Alma mater Sun Yat-sen UniversityAston University Education | ||
Political party Communist Party of China | ||
Xu Ningsheng (simplified Chinese: 许宁生; traditional Chinese: 許寧生; pinyin: Xǔ Nìngshēng; born 7 July 1957) is a Chinese educator who is the current President of Fudan University.
Biography
Xu was born in Zhanlong Town of Puning, Guangdong province, on July 7, 1957, with his ancestral home in Chenghai District, Shantou. Xu secondary studied at Xingwen High School.
He was a sent-down youth from 1975 to 1978, during the Cultural Revolution.
After the Resumption of University Entrance Examination in 1977, he studied, then taught, at the Department of Physics of Sun Yat-sen University, in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province. He received his doctor's degree from Aston University in 1986, after graduation, he taught there, he worked there for a total of 13 years.
He was honored as a Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Chinese: 国家杰出青年科学基金) in 1995.
He returned to China in 1996 and that year became professor of physics at Sun Yat-sen University, becoming Dean of its School of Physics and Engineering in 1999, and was promoted to Vice-President in 2004. He also served as Dean of International Exchange College between 2004 and 2008.
He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Physics in 1998.
He was named a Chang Jiang Scholar by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in 1999.
On December 23, 2010, he was appointed President of Sun Yat-sen University, he remained in that position until October 24, 2014, when he was transferred to Shanghai, and served as President of Fudan University.