Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2021, Professor Biao Jiang is a distinguished Chinese chemist whose career has encompassed green chemistry, life and health sciences, and international science and technology cooperation. Born in November 1962 in Saiqi, Fu’an, Fujian Province, he received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from Lanzhou University and his Ph.D. through a joint programme between Lanzhou University and the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He began his research career at SIOC in 1990, progressing from Assistant Researcher to Research Professor and doctoral supervisor, and served as Director of SIOC from 2003 to 2009. He subsequently served as Vice President of the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, CAS, from 2012 to 2017, and as Executive Director of the Institute of Immunochemistry at ShanghaiTech University. Since 2017, he has served as Director of the CAS Bangkok Innovation Cooperation Center and currently holds positions as Distinguished Professor at ShanghaiTech University and Executive Chairman of the World Laureates Association. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering in 2023. His contributions have been recognised through more than forty distinctions, including two National Science and Technology Progress Awards (Second Prize), two Qiushi Awards, two China Industry–University–Research Institute Cooperation Awards, the UNEP Award for Outstanding Achievement in Environmental Protection, and the CAS Award for Outstanding Contribution.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 1997, Dr. Suvit Vibulsresth is a distinguished Thai space scientist and geospatial technology expert whose career has contributed substantially to the development of Thailand’s Earth observation and space infrastructure. He received his B.Eng. in Telecommunication Engineering from Osaka University, Japan, his M.Sc. from McGill University, Canada, and his Ph.D. in Remote Sensing and Space Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, under the supervision of Professor Shunji Murai, and also pursued advanced studies in remote sensing at Purdue University, USA. He began his professional career as an engineer in Thailand’s Post and Telegraph Department and subsequently served as a scientist at the Applied Scientific Research Corporation of Thailand. He spent more than twenty-five years at the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT), ultimately serving as Secretary General, and was Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment from 1997 to 2001. In 2001, he was appointed Executive Director of the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA), Thailand’s national space agency, where he played a central role in the development of national space and geospatial programmes. A Member of the International Academy of Astronautics, he has received the National Research Council of Thailand Distinguished Scientist Award, royal decorations from the Thai Royal Household, and the Asian Conference on Remote Sensing Outstanding Contribution Award.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in August 2017, Professor Zhihua Deng is a distinguished Chinese socio-economic historian and scholar of innovation policy, whose work connects historical research with contemporary policy analysis and strategic consulting. Born in 1972 in Yifeng, Jiangxi Province, he received his B.A. in History Education from Jiangxi Normal University in 1995, his M.A. in Chinese Economic History from Xiamen University in 1998, and his Ph.D. in History from Sun Yat-sen University in 2001, where he subsequently joined the faculty. He later pursued postdoctoral research in Economics at the Research Institute for Fiscal Science, Ministry of Finance, in 2011, before joining the International Cooperation Center of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) as a Research Fellow in 2013. From 2015 to 2018, he served as Director of the Office for Entrepreneurship and Social Development. He currently serves as Professor at Qinghai Normal University, Vice President of the Beijing Innovation Society, President of the Guohe Huaxia Institute of Urban Planning and Design, and Secretary-General Assistant of the China Science Center of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Baoxing Qiu is a distinguished Chinese urban planner and public policy scholar whose research and professional work have focused on urbanisation, urban planning, and sustainable urban development. Born in 1953, he received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Tongji University. He served as Vice Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and concurrently as Counselor of the State Council. He was a delegate to the 15th and 17th National Congresses of the Communist Party of China and a member of the 17th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He currently serves as Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University of Technology and Adjunct Professor at Nanjing University, Fudan University, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, and Tongji University. He is also a member of the first group of Advisory Experts for the Innovation Center for Ecological and Landscape Engineering Technology of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2023, Professor Shengzu Gu is a distinguished Chinese economist and public policy scholar whose work has contributed to economic management, innovation policy, and regional development. Born in 1956, he received his Ph.D. in Economics from Wuhan University, where he has pursued an academic career as Professor and served as Director of the Institute of Strategic Management. His academic and professional work has combined research in economics and strategic management with extensive engagement in public policy and national development. He served as Vice Chairman of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and Standing Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association. His earlier public and academic service also included appointments as Vice Mayor of Wuhan, Vice Governor of Hubei Province, and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. Through these roles, he participated in economic policy consultation and research concerning regional development, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 21 May 2021, Professor Vladimir L. Katanaev is a distinguished Russian-Swiss molecular pharmacologist and an internationally recognised authority on Wnt signalling, G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) biology, and translational oncology. Born in Siberia, he received his M.Sc. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Krasnoyarsk State University and Moscow State University (Pushchino Branch) in 1994, followed by a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, in 2000. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at Columbia University in New York (2000–2005), where he initiated his seminal studies of Wnt/Frizzled signalling in Drosophila development. After establishing an independent research group at the University of Konstanz, Germany, he joined the University of Lausanne as Associate Professor in 2011. In 2018, he was appointed Full Professor and Chair of Translational Oncology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, where he also serves as Academic Director of the HumanFly Facility. Since 2024, he has additionally served as Scientific Director of the Translational Oncology Research Center at the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, while maintaining research activities at Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 21 May 2021, Professor Sylvain Michel Joffre is a distinguished Franco-Finnish meteorologist and an internationally recognised authority on atmospheric boundary-layer dynamics, air–sea interactions, and the long-range transport of atmospheric pollutants. He graduated in Physics from the University of Paris and received his Ph.D. in boundary-layer dynamics from the University of Helsinki in 1981. Following research appointments at the Finnish Institute of Marine Research and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment, he joined the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) in 1994 as Research Professor and subsequently served as Head of its Meteorological Research Department from 2008 until his retirement in January 2016. He has also held an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Helsinki. Beyond his institutional roles, he has made sustained contributions to European meteorological cooperation through COST, HIRLAM, EUMETSAT, EUROTRAC, and the European Meteorological Society (EMS). He chaired the EMS Committee on Meetings from 2014 to 2022 and played a leading role in reshaping the Society’s annual meetings towards a more integrated, value-chain-oriented framework. His contributions to European meteorology were recognised with the EMS Outstanding Contribution Award in 2021.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 21 May 2021, Dr. Vito Vitale is a distinguished Italian atmospheric physicist and an internationally recognised scholar of radiative transfer, aerosol–radiation interactions, and the energy balance of polar regions. He currently serves as Director of Research at the National Research Council (CNR) Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP) in Bologna. Since beginning his involvement in polar research and research management in 1986, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in both Antarctica and the Arctic and contributed to the development of international polar research and observation programmes. His international service includes representing Italy in the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Expert Group on Polar and High Mountain Regions (EC-PHORS), serving on the Steering Board of the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON), the Board of Directors of the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS), and the CNR Polar Committee. In 2019, he was elected to the Executive Committee of the European Polar Board, further reflecting his sustained engagement in international polar science coordination.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Lidian Chen is a distinguished Chinese rehabilitation physician and a pioneer in the development of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine rehabilitation. Born in March 1963 in Zhenghe, Fujian Province, he received his Ph.D. in Medicine from Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and has pursued his academic and clinical career at the same institution, serving as Professor, Chief Physician, Doctoral Supervisor, and Party Secretary of the University. A recipient of the State Council Special Allowance, a national-level candidate of the “Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project”, and a Qi Huang Scholar, he currently serves as President of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine and as the only Chinese representative on the Executive Committee of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM). He has also served as Leader of the National Key Discipline Collaborative Group for Rehabilitation under the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and as Chief Expert of the National Science and Technology Support Programme during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Feng Zhao is a Chinese computer scientist whose career has focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks, networked embedded systems, mobile computing, and the translation of research into industrial applications. Born in 1962, he received his bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1984 and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 and 1992, respectively. He began his academic career at Ohio State University, where he served as a tenured Associate Professor from 1992 to 1997. From 1997 to 2004, he was Chief Scientist at Xerox PARC, where he established research on sensor networks, while also serving as a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. He subsequently held senior research positions at Microsoft Research Redmond and Microsoft Research Asia, including Principal Researcher, Microsoft Partner, and Executive Vice President, leading work in networked embedded computing, the Internet of Things, big data, and computer systems and networks. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Haier’s Home Appliance Industry Group. He is now Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and Chief Scientist of its Institute for AI Industry Research, as well as an Investment Partner at Eight Roads. A Fellow of the IEEE and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, he was the founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. His career has combined academic research, industrial research leadership, technology development, and the training of researchers across the United States and China.