Yang Fujia - Biography

Biography

Yang's ancestral hometown is Zhenhai County (current Zhenhai District), Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. He was born in Shanghai, graduated from Shanghai Ge-Zhi High School 上海格致中学 and obtained a degree in physics from Fudan University. He was a lecturer and professor of physics at Fudan, serving as President of the university from 1994 to 1999.

Yang was Director of the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1987 to 2001, was Chairman of the Shanghai Science and Technology Association (1992–1996), and he was the first president of the Association of University Presidents of China (1997–1999).

Yang has held visiting professorships at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark; Rutgers University, New Jersey, U.S.; the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA; and the University of Tokyo, Japan. He holds honorary degrees from Soka University, Tokyo, Japan; the State University of New York, USA; the University of Hong Kong; the University of Nottingham, England; and the University of Connecticut, USA.

Professor Yang Fujia was formally installed as The University of Nottingham's sixth Chancellor on 4 July 2001, the first time that a Chinese academic has become Chancellor of a UK university.

Other roles which Professor Yang has held include:

• Council Member representing China on the Association of East Asia Research Universities
• Member of the International Association of University Presidents
• Member of the Association of University Presidents of the Pacific Rim
• Vice-president of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology