Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 1997, Professor Lee Chack-fan (Li Cho-fun) is a distinguished Chinese-Canadian geotechnical engineer whose career has focused on hydroelectric and nuclear power infrastructure, dam safety, and geological hazard mitigation. Born on 4 May 1945 in Xiaolan, Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, he received his B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in Civil Engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 1968, followed by an M.Sc. in Geotechnical Engineering from the same university in 1970 and a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, in 1972. He remained at the University of Western Ontario as a teaching assistant before joining Ontario Hydro, where he spent more than two decades and progressed to Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Engineering Division. His responsibilities included hydroelectric and nuclear power construction, dam safety assessment, seismic design of nuclear power stations, and nuclear waste management. Returning to the University of Hong Kong in 1994 as Chair Professor, he subsequently served as Head of the Department of Civil Engineering (1998–2000), Vice President (Research), Vice President (External Affairs), and Dean of the School of Professional and Continuing Education, retiring in 2015. He was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2001, and a Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2003. He currently serves as Emeritus Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Professor in the Department of Hydraulic Engineering at Tsinghua University, and, since 2023, Full-time Distinguished Professor at China Three Gorges University.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 18 May 1996, Dr.-Ing. Frank Hoffmann is a distinguished German cartographer and geomatics scientist whose career bridges the cartographic traditions of the former German Democratic Republic with the interoperable geospatial frameworks of contemporary Europe. An HS-Dozent (Associate Professor) in the Section of Geodesy and Cartography at Technische Universität Dresden, he has also held academic appointments at Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography and the Ukrainian State University in Kyiv, reflecting a longstanding commitment to scientific cooperation across Eurasia. During the GDR era, he served as Chairman of the KDT “Automation of Cartographic Processes,” a Member of the National Committee for Geography and Cartography, and a Corresponding Member of the International Cartographic Association’s Commission on Automation in Cartography. Following German reunification, he worked as an Expert at BOWGIS, the “Education Center East-West” in Dresden, and subsequently as an External Expert to the European Commission. As founder and long-serving Chief Executive Officer of IGN e.V. (Innovation.Grenzüberschreitendes Netzwerk) in Dresden, he has played a sustained role in advancing cross-border spatial-data infrastructure and professional GIS education across Central and Eastern Europe.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 1996, Professor Jiadong Sun was a distinguished Chinese aerospace engineer whose career encompassed missile systems, satellite engineering, space exploration, and satellite navigation. Born on 8 April 1929 in Fuxian County, Liaoning Province, now Wafangdian, he enrolled in preparatory Russian-language studies at Harbin Institute of Technology in 1948 and, in 1951, was selected to study aircraft engine engineering at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy in the Soviet Union. He graduated in 1958 and returned to China that year, joining the First Sub-Academy of the Fifth Research Academy of the Ministry of National Defense. He was elected an Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics in 1988, a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991, and an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 1996. His early career focused on missile systems, including service as Chief Designer of China’s first independently developed liquid-fuelled medium-range ballistic missile systems. In 1967, he transferred to the newly established China Academy of Space Technology, where he subsequently held senior technical and administrative positions, including Vice President and President, and also served as Chief Engineer of the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Aerospace Industry, and Vice Minister and Director of its Science and Technology Committee.

Elected an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) on 18 May 1996, Professor Ilia Dimitrov Christov is a distinguished Bulgarian agroecologist, soil physicist, and biophysicist, and a founding figure in ecological science in the Balkans. A Member of the New York Academy of Sciences and Professor Emeritus at the Nikola Poushkarov Institute of Soil Science, Agrotechnology and Plant Protection in Sofia, he holds both a Ph.D. and a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) and has devoted more than three decades to field-based research on the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum. His academic leadership includes founding the Journal of Balkan Ecology, of which he has served as Editor-in-Chief since its establishment in 1997, as well as helping to establish the Balkan Ecological Federation, through which he has fostered an international scientific network spanning ecology, agriculture, and environmental protection across South-East Europe.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 18 May 1996, Professor Milan Konečný is a distinguished Czech cartographer and geoinformatician, internationally recognised for his contributions to spatial data infrastructures, Digital Earth science, and geospatial approaches to disaster-risk management. Born in Vsetín, Czechoslovakia, in 1948, he received his M.A. in Geography and RNDr. in Cartography from Masaryk University in Brno in 1973, followed by his Ph.D. in 1982 and habilitation in Cartography and Geoinformatics in 1984. He has pursued his academic career at Masaryk University, where he is Professor of Cartography and Geoinformatics and Director of the Laboratory on Geoinformatics and Cartography, which he founded in 1992. He served as President of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) from 2003 to 2007 and as Vice-President of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) from 2006 to 2015. He also founded and chaired the ICA Commission on Cartography for Early Warning and Crises Management and has held senior leadership positions within IEAS, including President of its European Regional Center. His international standing has been recognised through the ICA Honorary Fellowship, ISDE Life Fellowship, Pangea World Fellowship, and honorary doctorates and professorships from European and Asian institutions.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 1996, Professor Gongbing Peng is a distinguished Chinese climatologist and geophysicist whose research and professional work have focused on geophysical influences on climate systems, global snow and ice cover, and the role of greenhouse gases in climate dynamics. Born in Macheng, Hubei Province, he received his M.S. in Meteorology and Climatology from the Department of Geography at Moscow State University, USSR, in 1961. He was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 1996. He currently serves as Research Professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and as Secretary-General and Advisor to the Secretariat of the China Science Center of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences. He also serves as Honorary Professor at the School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Australia, Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Water Resources and Hydrology at Hohai University. He previously served as a member of the Chinese National Committee of the International Association of Geodesy and Geophysics and Vice Chairman of its Hydrology Professional Committee, as well as a member of the Climate Commission of the International Geographical Union. He also served on the Expert Group on Meteorology and Hydrology for the Three Gorges Project.

Elected an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) in 1996, Alexander H. Alexandrov is a Full Member (Academician) of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and a leading authority in silviculture, forest genetics, and ecology in Bulgaria. Born in Stara Zagora on 24 September 1938, he graduated from the Higher Institute of Forestry in Sofia in 1961. Following early field appointments in Tsonevo and Velingrad, he joined the Forest Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1967, beginning a distinguished career dedicated to forest science and management. He received the degree of Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (D.Sc.) in 1984 and subsequently served as Deputy Director of the Institute from 1986 to 1988 and as Director from 1989 to 1993 and again from 2001 onward. Elected a Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1995 and an Academician in 2003, he has also served as Chairman of the Publishing Council of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and as a member of the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 1995, Professor Zuxun Zhang is a Chinese photogrammetrist and remote sensing scientist whose career has focused on the theory, automation, and industrial application of digital photogrammetry. Born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, in 1937, he entered the Department of Surveying at Tongji University in 1955 and subsequently transferred with the programme to Wuhan College of Surveying and Mapping, where he graduated in 1960 and later received a graduate degree in aerial photogrammetry in 1968. After teaching at the PLA Institute of Surveying and Mapping and undertaking professional training in Switzerland, he served as Director of the Research Division of Aerial Photogrammetry at Wuhan College of Surveying and Mapping and as Vice President of Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping. From 1990 to 1997, he was Founding Director of the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, contributing to the development of the laboratory as a national research centre. He is Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Wuhan University and Concurrent Professor at the China University of Mining and Technology. Elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2003, he has also received national honours for scientific and technological contributions. In 2024, he received the Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award and donated the full prize to establish a teaching award at his former college.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 27 May 1995, Professor Manfred M. Fischer is a distinguished Austrian regional scientist and a leading architect of modern spatial econometrics and quantitative economic geography. Born in Nuremberg, Germany, on 25 February 1947, he earned his Dr. rer. nat. summa cum laude in geography and mathematics from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1975, followed by his habilitation in human geography from the University of Vienna in 1982. After beginning his academic career at the University of Vienna, he was appointed Professor and Chair of Economic Geography at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) in 1988, where he directed the Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience from 1989 to 2015 and served as Dean of the Social Sciences from 2004 to 2009. Now Emeritus Professor at WU and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, he is the only scholar to have received all three of the Regional Science Association International’s highest honours: the RSAI Fellows Award (2006), the Jean Paelinck Award for Regional Science Methods (2015), and the RSAI Founder’s Medal (2016). He is also a Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 1995, Professor Junru Ma is a distinguished Chinese information scientist and science policy scholar whose research and professional work have focused on microelectronics, semiconductor technology, and science and technology development strategy. Born in October 1934 in Baoying, Jiangsu Province, he graduated from the Department of Physics, Fudan University, in 1957 and subsequently joined the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where he progressed from project team leader to Deputy Director and Director of a research laboratory. From 1980 to 1982, he pursued advanced studies at the National Submicron Research Center and the Department of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University, USA. In 1985, he was appointed Deputy Director and Research Professor of the CAS Microelectronics Center and subsequently joined the State Science and Technology Commission, where he served as Deputy Director-General and Director-General of the Department of Basic Research and High Technology. In 1991, he was appointed Director of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. After leaving government service in 1997, he devoted his work to strategic research and consultancy on science and technology development. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the China Science Center of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences.