Professor Dr. HE Lianzhen assumed the role as Vice President of Zhejiang University in June 2018. Prior to her current position, Dr. HE served successively as Dean of School of International Studies, Dean of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Dean of ZJU’s International Campus, etc. Dr. HE got her Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham, UK (1993) and her PhD degree in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Guangdong Foreign Studies University, China (1998). Her main research interests are language assessment, applied linguistics, and discourse analysis. She was Senior Visiting Scholar at University of California at Los Angeles in 2004 and Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor at University of Bristol in 2014. She was awarded National Professor of Distinction by Chinese Ministry of Education in 2006. Her publications include articles on language assessment research in top journals like Language Testing, Language Assessment Quarterly, Foreign Language Teaching and Research, and many key journals in China.  She is also Director of the National Advisory Board for College Foreign Language Teaching of the Ministry of Education, Chair of “Double First-class” University Network of China Education Association for International Exchange, and Vice Chair of China Association for Language Testing and Assessment.

Enno Aufderheide is an alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation. He studied biology at the universities of Bielefeld and Bonn and was also a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA. He worked on his doctoral dissertation at the Max Planck Society’s Friedrich Miescher Laboratory and was awarded a doctorate by Tübingen University in 1988. From 1988 to 1999, he held various positions at the German Aerospace Centre before becoming head of the Research Department at the German Council of Science and Humanities in 1999. In 2002, he was appointed as executive director of the “Science” Section at the Helmholtz Association. From 2006 to 2010, he was head of the Research Policy and External Relations Department at the Max Planck Society in Munich. In 2010, Enno Aufderheide became the new Secretary General of the Humboldt Foundation. Enno Aufderheide is a member of various national and international committees for the promotion of science and is the author of numerous academic and science policy publications. The distinctions he has received for his work include the Kussmaul Medal which he was awarded by the German Society for Rheumatology in 2009.

Ruth Schimanowski has worked in China for almost 25 years. From 2020 until 2023 she served as the Chief Representative of the Beijing Office of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). As of November 1st, 2023 she heads the department of HEI cooperations at the DAAD headquarters in Bonn/Germany for the regions of the Middle East, Asia and Africa. The DAAD is the world´s leading scholarship association supported by German federal government funds. DAAD staff in around 70 branch offices and information points around the world make their expertise available and ensure that international experience from different perspectives are influencing the projects. The DAAD promotes Germany as a leading place for study and research among the world’s host countries. A variety of scholarships and exchange programs attract German students, teachers and researchers to go abroad. The DAAD has been represented in China since 1994 by its branch office in Beijing and by its information offices in Shanghai and Guangzhou. In addition, the DAAD currently funds around 20 German language lecturers at Chinese universities and various Sino-German HEI collaborations.  Previous Positions  01/20 – 12/23    Chief Representative; German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Beijing, China 01/18 – 09/19    Managing Director; German Centre for Industry and Trade; Beijing, China 10/12 – 12/17    Vice director of Beijing Office; German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Beijing, China02/05 – 02/11    Head of Dialogue and Liaison Office; MISEREOR e.V. (Overseas Development Agency); Beijing, China 06/02 – 10/04    Department of Arts and Culture Employee; German Embassy; Beijing, China 09/00 – 06/01    Assistant to Project Manager; Boehringer Ingelheim Shanghai, Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd.; Shanghai, China  Ruth Schimanowski holds a physics degree (Diplom-Physikerin) from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and has studied Chinese Language and the Beijing Normal University from 1999 to 2000.   

As Director of the Office of Global Engagement, Professor Min Li is Zhejiang University’s senior international officer and responsible for the university’s global strategy, partnerships and engagement. She assists ZJU’s senior leadership in strengthening the university’s global network and impact. Prof Li has led on the creation of ZJU’s Global Strategy: CREATE to Impact. In line with the strategy, she has forged meaningful links and substantial collaborations that serve to address issues of global and local relevance. In addition, she  provides strategic  leadership for the development and delivery of a series of university-wide action plans and programs. Prior to this  position,  Prof  Li worked as  Deputy  Director from  November 2009 to December 2015 and was a faculty member of ZJU’s School of International Studies before joining the international office. Born in Hangzhou, she received her bachelor’s degree from Fudan University and her masters’ degree in Applied Linguistics from ZJU. Director Li was a visiting scholar in Central College U.S. for the academic year of 2003-2004. Director Li currently serves on China Association of Higher Education, as Vice Chair of the Council of the Society for International Human Resources Development. She was also a member of the International Policy Advisory Committee of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. Her research focuses on higher education policy, strategy and transformation in the global  context.  She  has  published  articles covering  a  variety  of  topics,  including global strategy of higher education institutions, post COVID-19 international mobility, world university consortiums and ethical issues in international collaboration.

Klaus Eisenack is professor for resource economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research focuses on adaptation to climate change, climate governance, and the energy transition, with game theory, modelling of institutional arrangements, and comparative approaches (in particular archetype analysis) being methods of choice. He is active in public understanding of science (for instance with the climate change game Keep Cool). He was professor for economics at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg (2008-2016), and scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (2001-2008). Klaus Eisenack has a background in mathematics, economics and philosophy, and holds a PhD in mathematics from the Free University Berlin (2006).

Dr. Rong TAN is the Qiushi Distinguished Professor at the School of Public Affairs (SPA), Zhejiang University. He received a doctorate in management from Nanjing Agricultural University and a doctorate in rerum agriculturarum from the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research focuses on the institutional analysis of land and natural resources, climate governance, and sustainable development, with theoretical concerns about the levels of social value, institutional environment, governance structure, and interaction between them. He is the vice dean of the SPA and the Land Academy for National Development of Zhejiang University.

I have a background in the integrated assessment of air pollution and climate change effects on human and ecosystem health. In my role as head of unit for environment and sustainability, I am responsible for the overall management of departments providing support to German ministries and agencies on topics including climate change, climate adaptation, natural climate protection, socio-ecological research, nature conservation and many more. In addition, I am a contributing author to the UNEP Global Environment Outlook 7 and have contributed to previous GEO reports, and expert reviewer for the European Commission and other international science funding agencies. Since 2020, I am president of the international Environmental Modelling and Software society (iEMSs) and have been a fellow of iEMSs and the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand for several years. Finally, I hold a visiting professorship at the University of Edinburgh, School of Chemistry. 

Dr. Baojing Gu is a professor and National Distinguished Youth Scholar at Zhejiang University's College of Environmental and Resource Sciences in China. His research expertise encompasses resource and environmental management, including the development of regional nitrogen cycling models, evaluation of resource-environmental impacts, and cost-benefit analysis. He has a prolific publication record with over 100 papers in renowned journals such as Science, Nature, and PNAS. He also actively contributes as a grant reviewer for foundations in China, Sweden, Australia, and other countries. Furthermore, he holds key roles, including Deputy Director of the East Asia Center of the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) and Group Leader of the International Nitrogen Management System (INMS). He is a dedicated committee member of the Nitrogen Working Group within the Chinese Soil Science Society and serves on the editorial boards of prestigious journals like Earth's Future, The Innovation, Scientific Data, and Environmental Science and Pollution Research. He also serves as a guest editor for Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. In May 2023, he was honored with the inaugural Frontiers of Earth Award as an International Champion.

Markus Geupel studied biology at the University of Cologne with a focus on ecology. Since 2006 he works as a scientific advisor for the German Environment Agency (UBA) in the field of Air Pollution Control and Terrestrial Ecosystems. He coordinates UBA's scientific activities in the topic area of Reactive Nitrogen and supports the Federal Ministry for the Environment in the development of an integrated nitrogen reduction strategy. He is involved in various international networks on the issue of “reactive nitrogen” and an active member of the Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen under the Geneva Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). Since 2016 he is co-chair of the expert panel on Nitrogen Budgets. Until 2020, he also has been responsible for the Agency`s activities to quantify nitrogen deposition in Germany and to assess the risks for terrestrial ecosystems due to atmospheric nitrogen deposition. Since 2019 is the head of the Coordination Center for Effects (CCE), which is responsible for the Europe-wide ecosystem risk assessment of airborne nitrogen deposition within the framework of the Geneva Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP).

Dong Han received Dr. Eng. Degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) Japan, in 2018. From 2018 to 2020, he joined the Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Technology (FIRST), Tokyo Tech, as an Assistant Professor. In 2020, he worked for the School of Mechanical Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic System, Zhejiang University, as a Research Professor. His research interests include high-end equipment manufacturing, electromechanical hydraulic integration, and high power density actuators, et al.

Anke Hagemann is an architectural and urban researcher. Since September 2021, she has been an acting professor at Chair for International Urbanism and Design (Habitat Unit) at TU Berlin, where she heads the Urban Rural Assembly research consortium. She previously taught at ETH Zurich, HCU Hamburg and BTU Cottbus, among others. Her current research topics include global commodity circulation and urban space, urban-rural metabolisms and extended urbanization, co-creation in strategic planning processes.

Dr.-Ing. Harrison Huang is architect and principal investigator at the Department of Architecture at the College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, ZJU. As the head of lab MUGO, he is leading the team members working on research and teaching subjects around timber architecture and sustainable design. His research interests also extend to design method for building circularity. Moreover, Harrison has been working on architectural projects over ten years both in Germany and China.

Klaus Janschek received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering (1979) and PhD (Dr.techn.) in Control Systems Engineering (1982) from Technische Universität Graz, Austria; 1982 to 1995 he held industry affiliations in control systems development (fatigue and vehicle test systems; aerospace guidance, navigation and control); since 1995 to today he is full professor of Automation Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering and affiliated faculty member to the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany.

Dr. Xue Luo is a principal investigator at the College of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Zhejiang University. Her current work focuses on research and teaching of pavement engineering, including pavement material mechanics, pavement structural analysis and performance predictions, non-destructive evaluation and intelligent analysis. Dr. Luo has led several national and provincial projects and has successfully completed over 10 research projects funded by federal or state agencies in the US. Dr. Luo’s research has resulted in over 100 journal and conference papers. She serves as an associate editor or guest editor for multiple SCI-indexed academic journals. She is also an expert referee for the national and international proposal reviews, as well as over 40 international journals.

Zhimin Lu, M.D., Ph.D., is professor and Dean of the Institute of Translational Medicine at Zhejiang University in China. He also holds the Kuangcheng Wang Distinguished Chair and Deputy Dean of the Medical College positions. He was recruited by Zhejiang University in 2019 after a distinguished tenure spanning over 16 years at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He was elected as a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2017 and a foreign member of Academia Europaea in 2021. His significant discoveries include demonstration of the protein kinase activity of metabolic enzymes, discovery of protein phosphatase activity of metabolic enzymes, and revelation of instrumental mechanisms underlying the Warburg effect and the pivotal and non-metabolic functions of metabolic enzymes and metabolites in tumorigenesis. He has published more than 150 research articles, and more than 50 of these papers were published in Nature, Science, and Cell series journals. He serves as Editor-in-Chief for Metabolic Discovery and Visualized Cancer Medicine and Depute Editor for Journal of National Cancer Center.  He received The Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award in 2022, Wuxi AppTec Life Science and Chemistry Outstanding Achievement Award in 2022, and the Dallas/Fort Worth Living Legend Faculty Achievement Award in Basic Research (MD Anderson) in 2016.

Dr. Kahlert´s work exploits stem cell technologies for the development of precision medicine. His efforts are focused on the clinical translational aspects of stem cell biology in a global growing clinical need. As a director of MES, embedded in same clinic his work is characterized by constant and in depth interaction oncological surgeons and oncologist leading to the initiation of transdisciplinary experimental and clinical trials. Clinical trials include diagnostic and therapy trials, both diagnostic or therapy trials featuring liquid biopsy project of medical device-assessment.  Additional research focuses on improving intraoperative molecular diagnostics to with molecular targeting dyes to improve robotic surgery performance and generation and genome engineering of human induced pluripotent stem cells and as target and/or drug discovery tools. On a basic research side of his work, he investigates the relevance of peripheral nerve – to tumor cell interaction for tumorigenesis and emergence of therapy resistance. He serves as an accredited member in international standardization committees, reviewer in various European funding agencies and is the representing scientific member of the faculty for animal welfare.

Dr. Ji Chen is a principal investigator at the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University. He is also affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine. His research interests include computational psychiatry, social and health psychology, cognitive modeling and neuroimaging. He devotes to combining data-driven machine learning with theory-based models on the basis of cognitive and clinical neuroscience and recently propose the concept and approach of interpersonal computational psychiatry. Previous work has been published in Lancet Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry(3 papers) and Nature Human Behaviour. He serves as the young investigator leading a STI2030-Major Project (i.e., the China Brain Project) and receives Somerfeld-Ziskind Research Award Honorable Mention from the Society for Biological Psychiatry.

Jalid Sehouli (born 19 April 1968) is a German gynaecologist and oncologist who specializes in peritoneal and ovarian cancer. He is a professor at Berlin's Charité hospital and a writer of scientific as well as fiction works.

Dr. Zhengxuan Liu was appointed to the position of Marie Sklodowska Curie European Fellow at Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). He was a joint PhD candidate between Hunan University and University of Lyon-ENTPE, and obtained his PhD degree in June, 2019. His research interests mainly focus on Zero Carbon Building Technology, Low Carbon Energy Transition for Building and Community, Smart Building and Community based AI, and Green Construction Innovation Management. He was the Assistant Dean of Institute for Sustainable Urbanization & Construction Innovation at Hunan University before coming to Delft. He was elected as Vebleo Fellow in 2022, and also honored with several Best Researcher Awards during the past two years. He is currently the Executive Chair of Marie Curie Alumni Association China Chapter. He is the Associate Editors of two well-known SCI journals (i.e., Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (sub-journal of Nature), and Journal of Housing and the Built Environment), and the Editorial Board Member of over 10 international journals (e.g., Buildings, Sustainable Horizons, etc.).

I'm Ehsanul Alam, and I'm 35 years old. My journey started in Chittagong, Bangladesh, where I was born. I earned my Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Islamic University of Technology, which laid the foundation for my future. After my Bachelor's, I seized the opportunity to pursue a Master's degree with the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Scholarship. During my time as a Erasmus Mundus scholar, I saw firsthand the valuable opportunities that the European educational system offers. I achieved a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from TU Darmstadt. It was a challenging and fulfilling experience, and it's shaped the way I approach problems and innovation. Now, I work in the Research and Development department of Wella Company, a place where my passion for science and innovation can shine. I'm constantly seeking out ways to make a positive difference through the development of products. Outside of the professional realm, I'm a person of diverse interests. Travelling is a source of inspiration and a way to experience new cultures and ideas. Cooking is my creative outlet, where I experiment with different cuisines and flavours. And, when time permits, I'm an avid football enthusiast.