Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 24 June 2013, Professor Yrjö Viisanen is a distinguished Finnish atmospheric physicist and an internationally recognised scholar of aerosol nucleation, atmospheric chemistry, and climate–aerosol interactions. Born in Finland, he received his M.Sc. in 1988 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Helsinki in 1991. He began his research career at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) in 1986 and, following a postdoctoral appointment in Göttingen, Germany, from 1992 to 1993, returned to FMI, where he progressed from Senior Scientist to Research Manager and subsequently served as Professor and Research Director from 2004 to 2017. He currently holds a Research Professorship at FMI and has served as Docent at the University of Helsinki since 1994 and at the University of Eastern Finland since 1999. Through his leadership at FMI and sustained participation in international atmospheric research programmes and European research infrastructures, he has contributed to the development of coordinated approaches to atmospheric observation and aerosol research.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 24 June 2013, Professor Timo Veikko Vesala is a distinguished Finnish micrometeorologist and an internationally recognised scholar of biosphere–atmosphere interactions and ecosystem–atmosphere exchange. Born on 14 July 1963 in Janakkala, Finland, he received his M.Sc. in 1988, Licentiate in Philosophy in 1990, and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Helsinki in 1991. Following an appointment at the Finnish Meteorological Institute from 1988 to 1989, he joined the University of Helsinki, where he has pursued his academic career, becoming Professor of Meteorology in 2001. He served as Academy Professor of the Academy of Finland from 2015 to 2019 and currently holds a professorship at the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), where he serves as Vice-Director responsible for the thematic division of meteorology, hydrosphere geophysics, and biogeochemical cycles. He was also a member of the Finnish National Climate Panel from 2020 to 2023. His institutional contributions include a central role in the development of the SMEAR (Station for Measuring Ecosystem–Atmosphere Relations) network and in strengthening Finland’s participation in international research infrastructures, including ICOS, AnaEE, and FLUXNET.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 29 December 2012, Professor Søren Ejling Larsen is a distinguished Danish meteorologist and a pioneering contributor to the modelling of atmospheric flows for wind-energy applications. Born on 14 April 1943, he received his M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 1968 and his Ph.D. in Micrometeorology in 1971. He spent his research career at the Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, now part of DTU Wind Energy, where he advanced from Research Scientist to Programme Director and subsequently became Professor Emeritus at DTU. In 2011, he was appointed Honorary Professor of Atmospheric Fluid Dynamics at Aarhus University. His career has been distinguished by a sustained integration of atmospheric boundary-layer physics, turbulence research, and the scientific and engineering challenges associated with wind-energy development.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2012, Professor Wei Zhao is a Chinese-American computer scientist whose career has focused on distributed computing, real-time systems and networks, the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, and cyberspace security. Born in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, in 1953, he received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Shaanxi Normal University in 1977 and taught there until 1982 before receiving his master’s and doctoral degrees in computer and information science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He subsequently taught at Amherst College and the University of Adelaide before joining Texas A&M University, where he served as Head of the Department of Computer Science and Senior Associate Vice President for Research and established an information security research centre. From 2005 to 2007, he was Director of the Division of Computer and Network Systems at the US National Science Foundation, followed by service as Dean of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. From 2008 to 2018, he served as President of the University of Macau, overseeing major developments in the university’s campus, residential college system, and educational programmes. He subsequently served as Vice President for Research at the American University of Sharjah and is now Provost, Chairman of the Academic Council, Dean of the Institute of Higher Education Research, and Endowed Chair Professor at Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the China Computer Federation. His honours include the IEEE Achievement Award of the Technical Committee on Distributed Processing, the China Computer Federation Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award, the IEEE Real-Time Systems Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions and Leadership, and the IEEE Big Data Technical Committee Award for Outstanding Achievements.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 25 June 2012, Professor Igor N. Esau is a distinguished Russian-born Norwegian atmospheric physicist whose research has advanced understanding of planetary boundary layers, Arctic climate dynamics, and urban atmospheric processes. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University, where his dissertation on large-eddy simulation of non-local turbulence in atmospheric boundary layers was supervised by Professor Sergej Zilitinkevich, establishing a long-standing scientific collaboration that has contributed significantly to the development of stable boundary-layer theory. He currently holds a Professorship in the Department of Physics and Technology at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), alongside his roles as Senior Researcher and Research Director at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) in Bergen, affiliated with the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. His career, spanning Sweden and Norway, reflects a sustained effort to connect fundamental turbulence physics with high-resolution environmental prediction in the Arctic and across the Eurasian region.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2012, Professor Baoyan Liu is a distinguished Chinese specialist in acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine whose research and professional work have focused on clinical acupuncture, evidence-based evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine, and the standardisation of acupuncture practice. Born in May 1955, he entered the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Shaanxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, now Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, in 1977. From 1982, he served as a traditional Chinese medicine physician at Lintong County Health School in Shaanxi, and from 1985 to 1988 pursued graduate studies in clinical acupuncture at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, now the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. In 1988, he joined the Department of Acupuncture at Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and in 1994 became Vice President of the hospital and Director of its Science and Research Division. He served as Deputy Director-General of the Department of Science, Technology and Education of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1997 and as Vice President of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine from 2001, while also undertaking advanced studies at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University. He currently serves as Chief Research Fellow, Chief Physician, and Doctoral Supervisor at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, President of the World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion Societies, and Specially Appointed Professor at Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In 2023, he was appointed a Member of the Academic Division of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2012, Professor Qingwu Jiang is a distinguished Chinese epidemiologist whose academic and professional work has focused on public health, disease surveillance, and health policy. He received his M.D. in Public Health from Shanghai Medical University (now Fudan University) in 1985 and conducted visiting scientist research at Harvard University in 1990. In 1997, he obtained an M.Sc. in Economics from the Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Professor Jiang spent much of his academic career at Fudan University, where he served as Vice Dean of the School of Public Health from 1993 to 1996, Acting Dean from 1996 to 1997, and Dean from 1997 to 2013. He currently serves as Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Fudan University. From 2013 to 2019, he served as Full-Time Advisor to the Health Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2012, Professor Jinxing Dai is a distinguished Chinese petroleum geologist and geochemist whose work has made major contributions to the development of China’s natural gas geology and exploration. Born on 19 March 1935 in Rui’an, Zhejiang Province, he graduated from the Department of Geology of Nanjing University in 1961, specialising in geotectonics. He was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995 and Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2012. He currently serves as Professor-level Senior Engineer and Doctoral Supervisor at the PetroChina Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development. From 2003 to 2009, he served as Chair of the Department of Earth Sciences, College of Science, Zhejiang University. His scientific contributions have been recognised through two National Science and Technology Progress Awards (First Prize), three National Key Science and Technology Programme Outstanding Individual Awards, and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Science and Technology Progress in Earth Sciences in 2001.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2011, Professor Zhaoguang Yang is a distinguished Chinese environmental scientist whose research and professional work have focused on water resources, environmental science and engineering, analytical chemistry, and water and wastewater technologies. Born in 1948, he graduated from Central South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, now Central South University, and moved to the United States in 1979, receiving an M.S. from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology and a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Reno, followed by postdoctoral research in environmental biotechnology. Over more than three decades in the United States, he held research and engineering positions at the University of Nevada, the US Bureau of Mines, the Desert Research Institute, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. In 1998, he was appointed by the Government of Singapore as Director of Research and Chief Scientist of the Institute of Environmental Science of the National Environment Agency. Following its integration into the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources in 2002, he served as Vice President and Chief Scientist of its Advanced Water Technology Centre and as Chief Technologist of the Public Utilities Board, while holding adjunct professorships at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. He returned to China in 2011 and founded the Centre for Environment and Water Resources at Central South University, where he is currently Director, Chief Scientist, Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor. He also serves in professional organisations and national consultative committees concerned with water research, urban water pollution control, drinking-water safety, and environmental protection.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2011, Professor Ya-Qin Zhang is a Chinese-American scientist and technology executive whose research and professional work have focused on digital video, image and video compression and transmission, mobile and cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and the translation of research into technological applications. Born in January 1966 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, he entered the Special Class for the Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China in 1978, receiving bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electronic engineering in 1983 and 1985, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from George Washington University in 1989. After research positions at GTE Laboratories and the Sarnoff Multimedia Laboratory in Princeton, he returned to China in 1999 to help establish Microsoft Research China, which became Microsoft Research Asia in 2001. He subsequently served as President of Microsoft Research Asia, Corporate Senior Vice President of Microsoft, Chairman of the Microsoft China R&D Group, and Corporate Vice President responsible for the company’s global mobility business. From 2014 to 2019 he served as President of Baidu, where he led the Apollo autonomous driving programme. Since 2019 he has been Endowed Chair Professor of Intelligent Science at Tsinghua University and Founding Dean of the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR). He is a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and a Fellow of IEEE and the US National Academy of Inventors. His honours include the IEEE Industry Pioneer Award, the Asian American Engineer of the Year Award, and the Chinese Government Friendship Award.