Reported by: XIAO Ke, SAN Men
Translated by: LU Haiyan
Edited by: Jennifer Talyor
The award ceremony for Chinese Scientist of the Year 2012, organized by the journal Scientific Chinese, was held in Beijing on June 22th. Several leading scientists gained the title Chinese Scientist of the Year 2012 including from HIT MA Fang, Professor in the School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, and JIANG Hongzhou, Professor in the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.
Chinese Scientist of the Year is a professional award with an important influence in China. It was founded in 2002 and has been successfully held 10 times by the Scientific Chinese Journal under the guidance of the China Association for Science. In the past more than 200 outstanding scientists, academics, science and technology entrepreneurs, who make contributions to scientific and technological development in China made have awarded, including QIAN Xuesen, YAUN Longpin, YANG Zhengning, SUN Jiadong, QI Faren, YE Duzheng, SHI Changxu and YANG Liwei.
Professor MA Fang is Deputy Director of the National Engineering Research Center of Urban Water Resources. He has also served as China's national environmental emergency specialist. His research is mainly about the theory and technology of water pollution control, the development and application of green water purifying reagents, the construction of engineering bacteria and biological enhancement technology, the theory and technology of watershed non-point pollution control and bioremediation of environmental pollution. He has made outstanding contributions in in recent years in the science and technology field.
Professor Jiang Hongzhou is the Deputy Director of the Department of Fluid Control and Automation in the School of Mechatronics Engineering. His research interests include hydraulic control system theory and its application, the design and control of parallel mechanisms, servo simulation and testing techniques, fluid driven biomemic mechanisms. He gained fame by proposing modal space control of hydraulic driven six DOF parallel mechanisms and inventing biomemic oscillatory propulsors with variable stiffness based on hyper-redundant serial-parallel mechanisms.
