Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 6 December 2016, Professor Arto Mustajoki is a distinguished Finnish linguist and an internationally recognised scholar of the Russian language, culture, and communication. Born in Helsinki in 1948, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki in 1978 and served as Professor of Russian Language and Literature from 1990 until his retirement in 2015, subsequently becoming Professor Emeritus. He has also served as a Leading Research Fellow at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His contributions have extended beyond academic research to national science policy and international scholarly cooperation. He served as President of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters from 2008 to 2010 and as Chair of the Board of the Academy of Finland from 2010 to 2014. He has been honoured as an Honorary Doctor of the Russian Academy of Sciences and as an Honorary Professor of Moscow State University, reflecting his longstanding contribution to academic and cultural exchange between Finland and Russia.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2016, Professor Le Kang is a distinguished Chinese ecological genomicist whose research has focused on insect ecology, population genomics, and the molecular mechanisms underlying phenotypic plasticity. Born in 1959 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, with ancestral roots in Tang County, Hebei Province, he received his B.S. in 1982, M.S. in 1987, and Ph.D. in 1990 from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Nebraska, USA, in 2009. Professor Kang was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Foreign Member of Academia Europaea (AE), Foreign Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Member of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and Foreign Member of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS). He currently serves as Distinguished Research Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vice Director of the Division of Life Sciences and Medicine of the CAS, Vice President of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) and Chairman of the IUBS China National Committee, and Vice Chairman of the China National Committee for the International Science Council (ISC). He is also a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and a Deputy to the 14th National People’s Congress.

Prof. Dr. Siwen Bi (born 1956) is an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS), elected in 2016 and ratified in April 2017. He is a Research Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIR-CAS), where he serves as Executive Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Information Sciences. After receiving his B.Sc. from Anhui University of Science and Technology in 1982 and his M.Sc. from China University of Mining and Technology in 1990, he obtained his Ph.D. in Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1995. His subsequent academic career included postdoctoral research at Peking University and Tsinghua University, a visiting scholar appointment at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Germany, and Guest Professorships at the University of Science and Technology of China, Chengdu University of Technology, Capital Normal University, and the University of Potsdam, among others. He is also an Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and the United Nations Academy of Sciences. His research spans Earth system science, quantum remote sensing, and the theoretical foundations of light, with Quantum Remote Sensing (QRS) representing his most significant contribution. Founded by Prof. Bi in 2001, QRS was developed into a comprehensive theoretical and technical framework encompassing quantum imaging mechanisms and spaceborne system engineering, culminating in the world’s first QRS imaging prototype in 2014.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2016, Professor Wei Deng is a distinguished Chinese wetland ecologist and geographer whose research has made significant contributions to wetland eco-hydrology, landscape ecology, and mountain hazard management. Born on 1 September 1957 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, he received his B.Sc. from Changchun College of Geology, now Jilin University, in 1983 and joined the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in the same year. He subsequently received his M.Sc. from the same institute in 1995 and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Geochemistry, CAS, in 2001. He was promoted to Associate Research Professor in 1993 and appointed Research Professor by CAS in 1997. His academic and administrative career at the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology included service as Deputy Director of the Sanjiang Plain Marsh Wetland Experimental Station, Director of the Division of Scientific Research and Conditions, and subsequently Director of the institute. In 2006, he was appointed Director of the Chengdu Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, CAS, a position he held until his retirement. Through his long-term leadership in wetland and mountain-environment research, he contributed to the development of interdisciplinary approaches to ecological and environmental management in China.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 14 August 2015, Professor Anatoly Zinovievich Shvidenko is a distinguished Russian-Ukrainian forest scientist and an internationally recognised scholar of boreal forest ecology, carbon accounting, and the impacts of global change on Northern Eurasian ecosystems. Born on 20 September 1937 in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, he received his forestry degree from the National Agricultural University of Ukraine and subsequently studied Applied Mathematics and Probability Theory at Kyiv State University. He earned his Candidate of Science (Ph.D.) degree in 1968 for research on the mathematical modelling of forest growth and productivity, followed by his Doctor of Biological Sciences degree in 1982. From 1968 to 1987, he served at the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, where he headed the Department of Forest Inventory and Planning. In 1992, he joined the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, where he currently serves as Guest Emeritus Research Scholar, while also holding a position as Principal Investigator at the V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Krasnoyarsk. He served as Lead Author and Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Second, Third, and Fourth Assessment Reports and shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC. He is also a founding and board member of the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA), an Academician of the Ukrainian Forestry Academy, and an Honorary Professor of the Ukrainian National Agricultural University.

Elected an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) on 30 June 2015, Professor Meinrat O. Andreae is a leading German biogeochemist and atmospheric scientist whose research has advanced an integrated understanding of marine, terrestrial, and atmospheric processes within the Earth system. Born in Augsburg, Bavaria, on 19 May 1949, he studied Earth Sciences at the Universities of Karlsruhe and Göttingen before receiving his Ph.D. in Oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, in 1977. He subsequently pursued his academic career at Florida State University, where he progressed from Assistant Professor to Full Professor of Oceanography between 1978 and 1987. In 1987, he became Director of the newly established Biogeochemistry Department and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, serving there until his retirement in 2017 and continuing as Director Emeritus. His international recognition includes membership of Academia Europaea, Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellowships of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical Union, and Foreign Membership of the Brazilian Academy of Arts and Sciences. His honours include the Waldo E. Smith Medal of the American Geophysical Union (2014), the Alfred Wegener Medal and Honorary Membership of the European Geosciences Union (2018), and an honorary doctorate from Ghent University (2010).

Elected an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) on 23 June 2015, Professor Almut Arneth is a leading German ecosystem scientist whose research has contributed substantially to the global understanding of climate change, biodiversity, and land-use dynamics. Trained as a biologist with a specialisation in plant ecophysiology, she received her Ph.D. in Environmental Physics from Lincoln University, New Zealand, in 1998. Following postdoctoral research at Landcare Research in New Zealand, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, she served as Professor at Lund University, Sweden, from 2004 to 2012. Since 2012, she has been Professor and Head of the Division of Ecosystem–Atmosphere Interactions at the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research – Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where she also leads the Global Land Ecosystems Modelling Group. Her scientific contributions have been recognised by the 2022 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany’s highest research award, and the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg (2024). She is also a member of Academia Europaea and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 7 July 2015, Dr. Paolo Laj is a distinguished Italian-French atmospheric physicist and an internationally recognised authority on atmospheric aerosols and global observation networks. Born in 1966, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Grenoble in 1992 for research on climatic signals preserved in glaciers. He subsequently conducted research within the Italian Antarctic Research Programme and at the University of Bologna before joining the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1998, where he headed the Atmospheric Aerosol Research Group in Clermont-Ferrand. In 2009, he joined Université Grenoble Alpes as Senior Physicist and Professor of Atmospheric Research, and from 2010 to 2015 served as Director of the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement (LGGE). Since 2015, he has held a Visiting Professorship at the University of Helsinki. In May 2024, he was appointed Chief of the Atmospheric Environment Research Section at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), overseeing the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) programme. He has also held major international leadership roles, including Scientific Chair of the Aerosols, Clouds and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure (ACTRIS) and Coordinator of the Sustainable Access to Atmospheric Research Facilities (ATMO-ACCESS) project.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 8 July 2015, Professor Ari Laaksonen is a distinguished Finnish atmospheric physicist and an internationally recognised authority on aerosol–cloud interactions, atmospheric nucleation, and climate change. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Helsinki in 1990 and 1992, respectively, and subsequently held research appointments at the University of Chicago and the Academy of Finland. He became Professor of Environmental Physics at the University of Eastern Finland in 1998 and joined the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) in 2008, where he currently serves as Chief Scientist and Scientific Director. In 2020, he was appointed Academy Professor by the Academy of Finland for the 2021–2026 term, recognising his position as an internationally leading researcher with substantial scientific impact. Since 2014, he has consistently ranked among the world’s most highly cited researchers in the geosciences.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 18 May 2015, Professor Albert A. M. Holtslag is one of the Netherlands’ most distinguished meteorologists and an internationally recognised authority on atmospheric boundary layers, land–atmosphere interactions, and their implications for weather, climate, and air-quality prediction. Born in the Netherlands, he earned his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Applied Sciences in Enschede in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Meteorology from Wageningen University in 1987. He began his research career at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) in 1977, rising to Senior Scientist in its Climate Research Department, while also holding visiting and affiliated research positions at the Risø National Laboratory in Denmark, Oregon State University, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. From 1993 to 1999, he served as part-time Professor of Meteorology at Utrecht University before joining Wageningen University in 1999 as Professor and Chair of the Meteorology and Air Quality Section, a position he held until his retirement in 2019. A Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, he served as President of the European Meteorological Society from 2020 to 2023 and received the inaugural Sergej Zilitinkevich Memorial Award in 2022 from IEAS, WMO, and other leading institutions in recognition of breakthrough contributions to atmospheric science.