Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman, Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Kings College, University of Cambridge (1968), has 1235 international publications in several fields of organic chemistry including 349 books published largely by major U.S. and European presses. He was elected as Fellow of Royal Society (London) (2006) and won the prestigious UNESCO Science Prize (1999). Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman was appointed Academician (Foreign Member) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015). He won the “Friendship Award of China” (2014) and was conferred the highest scientific award of China, the International Science & Technology Cooperation Award, by President Xi Jinping (2020). He was bestowed with the International Scientific Corporation Award (2014) and the “Einstein Professorship” by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (2013). He was conferred honorary D.Sc. by University of Cambridge and appointed an Honorary Life Fellow of Kings College, University of Cambridge. The Austrian government has honoured him with its highest civil award (“Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeischen am Bande") (2007). He is Professor Emeritus at University of Karachi, Pakistan.

Dr. Du Zheng is a physical geographer. He graduated from the Department of Geography, Sun Yatsen University in 1958. At present, he is a research professor at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources of CAS. Dr. Zheng was elected an academician of CAS in 1999 and was appointed the Chief Scientist at the State Key Project on Fundamental Research Planning of "Formation and Evolution of Tibetan Plateau with Its Environment and Resource Effects" from1999~2003. Dr. Zheng has made several significant contributions as he presented a distribution model of structure-type groups of the altitudinal belt in the Mt.Qomolangma region, subdivided the altitudinal belt of Tibetan Plateau into the monsoonal and continental spectrum systems with various structure-type groups, and revealed their distribution models. He explored and confirmed a high-cold arid core area in the interior of the Plateau and expounded the three-dimensional zonality of the high mountainous areas, and presented the principle and approaches of regionalization for mountainous and plateaus regions. He has published more than 160 articles and monographs, and was awarded the Special Prize for Science and Technology Progress Award of CAS (1986) and the First Prize for the National Natural Science Award of China (1987).

Lei Xiaolin was Born in November 27, 1938 in Guilin, Guangxi Province, China and graduated from the Department of Physics, Peking University in 1963. After teaching at Shandong University from 1963 to 1976, he joined the research staff of Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in late 1978. He was a visiting scientist (1983-1984) at University of Houston, a visiting associate professor (1984-1985) at City University of New York, and a visiting professor (1985-1987) at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. He was a research professor (1986-2000) at Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy, CAS and elected the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997. He is currently a professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prof. Lei has been the leading author of more than 160, and the coauthor of more than 130 academic papers published in major journals in the field of condensed matter physics. He was awarded a First- Class CAS Prize of Natural Sciences (1994), a Second-Class National Prize of Natural Sciences (1995), and a Ho-Leung-Ho-Lee Prize for Science and Technology Progress in Physics (2006).

Dr. Chu Junhao is a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2005, a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a professor at Fudan University. He received his PhD from the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1984 and has remained at the institute ever since. Dr. Junhao received the Humboldt Foundation for postdoctoral research at the Department of Physics of the Technical University of Munich, Germany in 1988. From 1993 to 2002, he served as the director of the State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics. He has long been engaged in infrared photo-electronics physics and semiconductor research, narrow band semiconductor physics and ferroelectric thin-film material device physics, new photoelectric devices and interdisciplinary research. He has published more than 800 scientific papers, more than 100 patents, 5 monographs, edited 10, won the National Natural Science Award three times, ministerial-level award 12 times. In 2014, he was named one of the top ten outstanding science and technology workers in China, and in 2017, won the first National New Competition Medal. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Chinese Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Wave and a Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE).

Dr. Tanjun Tong graduated from Beijing Medical College (Now Peking University Health Science Center)in 1959,he then studied under the Chinese academician Dr.Sizhi Liu,in the Department of Biochemistry in 1964. From April 1964 to present, he has stayed on as a lecturer (1978), associate professor(1985), and professor (1988). In 1978, he was selected to be a member of the first group of visiting scholars to the U.S. by the Chinese Ministry of Education prior to full development of China-U.S. diplomatic relations. He first did research at Johns Hopkins University, and then did postdoctoral research training at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). From 1986 to 1988 he visited the U.S. as a visiting associate professor at the University of California, Davis and New York University. In 2005, he was elected as an Academician of the Institute of Life Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and became a Medical Faculty Fellow. Dr. Tong is engaged primarily in basic research in geriatric medicine, and he has published more than 200 research papers in international academic journals.He has trained more than 50 PhD students. He is the chief editor of "Medical Gerontology", "Medical Molecular Biology" and "Biochemistry" and associate chief editor of Encyclopedia of China (third edition)Modern Medicine Volume.