Zhang Pingwen

Zhang Pingwen
Zhang Pingwen
张平文
President of Wuhan University
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 28 December 2022
Preceded by	Dou Xiankang
Personal details
Born	July 1966 (age 58); Changsha County, Hunan, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Peking University
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Peking University; Wuhan University
Doctoral advisor	Ying Long'an (应隆安)
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	张平文
Traditional Chinese	張平文
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhāng Píngwén

Zhang Pingwen (Chinese: 张平文; born July 1966) is a Chinese mathematician and university administrator, currently serving as president of Wuhan University. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography

Zhang was born in Changsha County, Hunan, in July 1966. He attended Changsha County No. 1 High School [zh].^[1] In 1984, he was accepted to Peking University, where he majored in the Department of Mathematics.

After graduating in 1992, Zhang stayed and worked at Peking University, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1994 and to full professor in 1996. In 2015, he was appointed director of the Discipline Construction Office of Peking University, a post he kept until 2019, when he became director of the Peking University Big Data Science Research Center. He moved up the ranks to become assistant president in August 2019 and vice president in December of that same year.^[2]

On 28 December 2022, the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party appointed Zhang as president of Wuhan University, a position at vice-ministerial level.^[3]

Honours and awards

1999 Feng Kang Prize [zh]^[2]
2014 State Natural Science Award (Second Class)^[2]
2015 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)^[2]
November 2016 Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)^[4]
2020 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)^[2]
2021 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation^[2]

References

^ Pan Dongxiao (潘东晓); Guo Tian (郭恬) (9 December 2015). 长沙县一中校友张平文当选中科院院士. eastday.com (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2017-01-11. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 张平文任武汉大学校长、党委副书记. sina (in Chinese). 29 December 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
^ 浙大、武大迎来新校长. sina (in Chinese). 28 December 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
^ Yang Mengxi (杨孟曦) (16 November 2016). 曹晓风等10名中国大陆学者当选发展中国家科学院院士. thepaper.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 5 January 2023.

Educational offices
Preceded by Dou Xiankang	President of Wuhan University 2022–present	Incumbent

[1] Pan Dongxiao (潘东晓); Guo Tian (郭恬) (9 December 2015). 长沙县一中校友张平文当选中科院院士. eastday.com (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2017-01-11. Retrieved 5 January 2023.

[Zhang-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 张平文任武汉大学校长、党委副书记. sina (in Chinese). 29 December 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2023.

[3] 浙大、武大迎来新校长. sina (in Chinese). 28 December 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2023.

[4] Yang Mengxi (杨孟曦) (16 November 2016). 曹晓风等10名中国大陆学者当选发展中国家科学院院士. thepaper.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 5 January 2023.

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