Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 28 September 2017, Professor Veli-Matti Kerminen is a distinguished Finnish atmospheric physicist and an internationally recognised authority on aerosol science, new particle formation, and aerosol–climate interactions. Born in Huittinen, Finland, on 25 February 1967, he received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Helsinki and earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics there in 1995, with a dissertation on the homogeneous nucleation of sulfuric acid–water particles in the lower troposphere. He began his research career at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), progressing from air-quality researcher to Senior Researcher and Research Professor, and subsequently joined the University of Helsinki, where he was appointed to a permanent chair in physics in 2016. He is currently Professor of Aerosol Physics at the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki. His international standing is reflected in his service as a Lead Author of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and his recognition as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in Geosciences for several consecutive years. He has also received the Marian Smoluchowski Award for Aerosol Research and the Nordic Aerosologist Award.

Elected an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) on 15 November 2017, Professor Ekaterina Batchvarova is a leading Bulgarian atmospheric scientist and Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, whose career has advanced understanding of the atmospheric boundary layer and its role in weather, climate, and air-quality systems. A longtime researcher at the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, she currently serves as Director of the Climate, Atmosphere and Water Research Institute (CAWRI-BAS) and President of the Bulgarian Meteorological Society. Her international academic leadership includes membership of the Steering Committee of HARMO (Harmonization within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes) and service on the editorial board of Climate, Atmosphere, and Water Research. Through sustained collaboration with the Risø National Laboratory in Denmark and participation in major European field experiments such as BUBBLE, she has contributed to establishing the Bulgarian school of boundary-layer meteorology as an internationally recognised centre of expertise.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 15 November 2017, Professor Salomon B. Kroonenberg is a distinguished Dutch geologist and an internationally recognised authority on sea-level dynamics, Quaternary geology, and Precambrian basement evolution. Born in Leiden, the Netherlands, on 13 March 1947, he studied Physical Geography at the University of Amsterdam, receiving his B.Sc. in 1968 and M.Sc. in 1971, and earned his Ph.D. there in 1976 with research on amphibolite- and granulite-facies metamorphism in southwestern Suriname. His early professional experience included geological work in Suriname and remote-sensing research in Colombia. He was appointed Professor of Geology at Wageningen Agricultural University in 1982 and joined Delft University of Technology in 1996, where he remained until his retirement in 2009. He is currently Emeritus Professor at Delft, Endowed Professor at Anton de Kom University of Suriname, and Guest Researcher at Utrecht University. He has also served as Honorary Professor at Moscow State University and has supervised more than thirty doctoral students over the course of his career.

Elected an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) on 15 November 2017, Professor Alexander A. Baklanov is a leading Russian-born atmospheric and environmental scientist whose career has bridged fundamental geophysics, atmospheric modelling, and the global governance of urban climate and air quality. Born on 5 July 1957, he received his M.Sc. in Physics from Yaroslavl State University and Novosibirsk State University in 1979, followed by a Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics (Geophysics) from the Novosibirsk Computing Centre of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1983 and a Doctor of Science (Dr.Scient.) in Meteorology and Climatology from the Russian State Hydrometeorological University in St. Petersburg in 1998. His early career at the Kola Science Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences led to leadership of the Department of Mathematical Modelling of the Environment at the Institute of Northern Environmental Problems and directorship of the International Environmental Information Centre Econord. After research and visiting appointments in Sweden and Austria, he joined the Danish Meteorological Institute, where he served as Senior Scientist from 1998 to 2014 and as Vice-Director of the Danish Strategic Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Health from 2007 to 2012. Since 2011, he has held an Affiliated Professorship at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and since 2014 has served as Scientific Officer in the Research Department of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva. A Member of Academia Europaea since 2018 and a PEEX Fellow since 2017, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Elected an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) on 14 September 2017, Professor Irina M. Artemieva is a leading Russian-born Danish geophysicist whose research has significantly advanced understanding of the structure, composition, and long-term evolution of the Earth’s lithosphere. Born in Moscow on 4 August 1961, she received her B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1984 and her Ph.D. in Geophysics from the Institute of Physics of the Earth, USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1987. Her early career at the same institute progressed from junior to senior research scientist, followed by an associate research professorship at Uppsala University in Sweden from 1999. After visiting appointments at the University of Strasbourg and the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, she joined the University of Copenhagen in 2005 as Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management. She currently serves concurrently as Distinguished Professor at the Deep-Earth Exploration Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and Chief Scientist of the Deep-Time Digital Earth Zhejiang International Research Center. Her academic distinctions include membership of Academia Europaea (2007) and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2014), as well as Fellowships of the Royal Astronomical Society (2000) and the Geological Society of America (2012). She received the European Geosciences Union Augustus Love Medal in 2021 and currently serves as President of the EGU Geodynamics Division.

Elected an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) on 8 November 2017, Professor Steven R. Arnold is a leading British atmospheric chemist whose research has advanced understanding of the interactions between trace gases, aerosols, climate, ecosystems, and human societies. He is Professor of Atmospheric Composition in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, where he also serves as Director of the Centre for Environmental Modelling and Computation (CEMAC). After receiving his B.A. and M.Sci. in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, he obtained his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Leeds and subsequently built his academic career there, progressing from postdoctoral researcher to Associate Professor and then to his current professorship. His international leadership includes serving as the United Kingdom representative and Vice-Chair of the International Arctic Science Committee Atmosphere Working Group, Co-Chair of the IGAC–IASC PACES initiative on Arctic air pollution, and a member of the Arctic Council’s Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme Expert Group on short-lived climate forcers.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2017, Professor Liming Li is a distinguished Chinese public health scientist and epidemiologist whose career has focused on disease prevention and control, chronic disease epidemiology, and health policy. Born in May 1956 in Beijing, he received his B.S. from the Department of Health at Beijing Medical College (now Peking University Health Science Center) in 1982 and his M.D. in Epidemiology from Beijing Medical University in 1986. He pursued advanced training at the School of Public Health and the Heart Research Institute, University of Hawaii, from 1987 to 1988, followed by postdoctoral research at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health from 1990 to 1991. He subsequently served as Vice Dean and Deputy Party Secretary of the School of Public Health, Beijing Medical University (1988–1990), Dean of the same school (1992–2000), Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Medical Division at Peking University (2000), President of the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine (2000–2002), and Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2002). From 2005 to 2016, he served as Executive Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and, from 2007 to 2016, as its Party Secretary. He currently serves as Boya Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Public Health, Peking University, and Director of the Peking University Strategic Research Center for Public Health and Major Epidemic Prevention and Control. Since 2018, he has also served as Dean of the Meinian Public Health Research Institute, Peking University Health Science Center.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 15 November 2017, Professor Ilya G. Usoskin is a distinguished Russian-Finnish space physicist and an internationally recognised scholar of solar variability, cosmic rays, and space climate. Born on 17 January 1965 in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, he graduated with honours from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, now St. Petersburg State Technical University, with an M.Sc. in Space Physics in 1988. He subsequently received his Candidate of Sciences degree in Astrophysics from the A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Space Physics from the University of Oulu in 2000. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at INFN Milano from 1997 to 1999, where he worked on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment, he joined the University of Oulu in 2000 as Head of the Oulu Cosmic Ray Station, becoming Docent in 2002 and Full Professor of Space Physics in 2012. From 2014 to 2019, he served as Vice-Director of the ReSoLVE Centre of Excellence of the Academy of Finland, dedicated to research on solar long-term variability and its effects. A Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters since 2019, he currently serves as Vice President of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and as a member of Commission C4 (Astroparticle Physics) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). His contributions have been recognised through the First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland (2013), the Julius Bartels Medal of the European Geosciences Union (2018), and the ISEE Science Award of Japan (2020).

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 15 November 2016, Docent Hanna K. Lappalainen is a distinguished Finnish atmospheric and ecosystem scientist and a key architect of the Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX), a major multinational research programme addressing land–atmosphere–ocean–society interactions across the Arctic, boreal, and Silk Road regions. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Helsinki in 2011, with research on atmospheric biogenic volatile organic compounds and plant phenology. Her subsequent career has combined atmospheric and ecosystem science with the coordination of large-scale international research programmes, including the EU FP7 Integrated Project EUCAARI and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Meteorology of Atmospheric Composition and Climate Change. She currently serves as Secretary General of the PEEX Programme and Director of the Impact Programme at the Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC), both based at the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki. Her contributions to international scientific cooperation and Earth-observation infrastructure have also been recognised through the NASA Goddard Team Award for the EOS-AURA OMI Team and the Silver Medal of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2016, Professor Xinchang Zhang is a Chinese cartographer and researcher in geographic information science whose professional work has focused on geographic information systems, geospatial information integration and dynamic updating, and digital and smart cities. Born in August 1957, he received his bachelor’s degree in cartography from Wuhan College of Surveying and Mapping in 1982 and worked as an engineer in surveying and mapping bureaus in Xinjiang and Hubei before obtaining his master’s degree in cartography and geographic information engineering from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping in 1990. He subsequently taught at the university, was a Senior Visiting Scholar in the Department of Surveying at the University of East London from 1997 to 1998, and received his Ph.D. in cartography and geographic information engineering from Wuhan University in 2004. In 1994 he joined Sun Yat-sen University, where he established its undergraduate programme in geographic information systems and later served as Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the School of Geography and Planning. Since 2017 he has also served as a Leading Professor under the Hundred Talents Programme at Guangzhou University. He is currently Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, Xiangjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor at Hunan University of Science and Technology, and Concurrent Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing at Wuhan University. A founding Fellow of the Chinese Society for Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography, he has received the State Council Special Allowance and numerous national and provincial honours, including the title of National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker and recognition as a leading figure in China’s smart-city development.