Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the 2009 recipients of “New Century Talents Supporting Scheme”. Research fellows of Department of Physics, Qian Dong and Wang Yujie were included.

“New Century Talents Supporting Scheme”by the Ministry of Education aims to train and support the excellent young academic pacesetters with well-grounded knowledge, innovative ability and outstanding potential for development. The research fellow, Qian Dong is the high-level talent who has recently been brought in by Department of Physics. Research fellow Qian Dong was engaged in the research on a variety of quantum system with unique nature when he was working at PrincetonUniversityof the United States, especially the issues on electronic structure and charge-excitation dynamics in low-dimensional and quasi-low-dimensional systems. He has made creative achievements in the international forefront of condensed matter physics. After brought in by Department of Physics, SJTU, he has obtained the “Shanghai Morning Star Talents Scheme”and “Shanghai Dawn Talents Scheme”. And he published high-level papers in Nature and Nature Physics when cooperating with peers of PrincetonUniversity. In line with the Chinese Central Government “Thousand Talents Program”and to increase the introduction of excellent young talents from overseas, 2009 “New Century Talents Supporting Scheme”gives support to the universities in directly bringing in excellent young scholars from overseas. Research fellow, Wang Yujie applied the “New Century Talents Supporting Scheme”(B category) in this background, and recently signed a formal contract with the Department of Physics, SJTU to become another high-level talent of Department of Physics. Research fellow Wang Yujie was engaged in research on synchrotron radiation in the U.S. Argonne National Lab. His major achievements include the establishment of the world’s first ultra-fast synchrotron radiation imaging system and the ground-breaking research on its application in fluid mechanics and soft condensed matter physics. He is a pioneer in this direction to establish the world’s sole ultra-fast X-ray imaging system. His main research direction in the future is to make use of synchrotron radiation light source in Shanghaiin the research on soft condensed matter.