Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Yamin Dang is a distinguished Chinese geodesist whose research has made significant contributions to geodetic datums, satellite positioning, and the monitoring of Earth dynamics. Born in February 1965 in Heyang, Shaanxi Province, he received his B.Eng. in Engineering Surveying from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, now Wuhan University, in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Geodesy and Surveying Engineering from the same institution in 1999. He conducted visiting research at the Finnish Geodetic Institute in 1997 and subsequently pursued postdoctoral research in GNSS and geodynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1999 to 2001. He has spent his academic career at the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, now the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping Science, where he currently serves as Chief Research Fellow and Director of the Institute of Geodesy and Geodynamics. He has received the State Council Special Allowance since 2012, was selected as a national-level candidate of the New Century Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project in 2009, and received the National Outstanding Professional and Technical Talent Award in 2021. His international and professional service includes membership of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), Chairmanship of the IAG China Committee, and service as Secretary-General of the Chinese National Committee for the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG).

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Kang Zhong is a distinguished Chinese plant physiologist, with major contributions to the study of temperature perception, vernalisation, and floral and organ development in plants. Born in April 1962 in Heyang County, Shaanxi Province, he received his B.S. in 1984 and M.S. in 1988 from Lanzhou University and his Ph.D. in 1993. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at Lanzhou University, the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the Department of Biochemistry at Tohoku University, Japan, and held collaborative research and visiting scholar appointments at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Purdue University, USA. He later joined the Institute of Botany, CAS, where he currently serves as Research Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Party Secretary, and Deputy Director, while also holding a professorship at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017, received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2006, and was selected as a national-level candidate of the New Century Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project in 2007. His contributions have been recognised through the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Science and Technology Progress in 2023. He has also served as a Member of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the 13th and 14th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 19 September 2019, Professor Yong Xue is a distinguished Chinese-British remote sensing scientist and Chartered Physicist, with internationally recognised contributions to quantitative remote sensing, aerosol retrieval, and geocomputation. Born in China, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Reading in 1988 and subsequently developed an international academic career spanning the United Kingdom, China, and Europe. He currently serves as Professor in Computation at the College of Engineering and Technology, University of Derby, while also holding appointments as Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (RADI/CAS), Guest Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Professor at Wuhan University and the Information Engineering University of the People’s Liberation Army. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Remote Sensing and on the editorial boards of numerous international journals in remote sensing and Earth observation. His academic career has combined methodological advances in satellite remote sensing with large-scale applications in atmospheric and environmental monitoring.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 19 September 2019, Professor Desheng Dash Wu is a distinguished Chinese-Swedish scholar in risk analysis and operations research, with internationally recognised contributions to supply chain risk management, decision support systems, and computational intelligence in business analytics. Born in China, he received his Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Calgary, Canada, and subsequently developed an international academic career spanning China, Canada, and Sweden. He currently serves as Professor at Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, while also holding appointments as Distinguished Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Hunan Normal University, and as Guest Professor at the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computers, Communications and Control and has served on the editorial boards of numerous international journals in operations research, risk analysis, and related fields. His academic career has been characterised by the integration of quantitative methods with practical problems in management, finance, and business decision-making.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2019, Professor Yongduan Song is a distinguished Chinese control scientist and artificial intelligence researcher whose research and professional work have focused on intelligent control, adaptive control, fault-tolerant control, and intelligent robotic systems. Born in June 1962 in Changshou, Chongqing, he received his B.S. from Sichuan University in 1983, his M.S. from Chongqing University in 1986, and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Tennessee Technological University, USA, in 1992, following doctoral studies at Beihang University and the University of Newcastle, Australia. From 1993 to 2008, he held a tenured full professorship at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and, from 2005 to 2008, served as one of the six Langley Distinguished Professors and Founding Director of the Center for Cooperative Systems at the National Institute of Aerospace, USA. He returned to China in 2008 as a Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and served as Dean of the School of Automation at Chongqing University from 2012 to 2022, where he currently serves as Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. In November 2025, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He currently serves as Dean of the School of Data Science and Chair Professor of Industrial Data Science at Lingnan University. He is a Fellow of IEEE, the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, and the Chinese Association of Automation, and has been included in Stanford University’s list of the world’s top 2% of scientists and Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 19 September 2019, Professor Vladimir G. Kutcherov is a distinguished Russian-Swedish geochemist and high-pressure physicist, internationally recognised for his experimental investigations into hydrocarbon formation under extreme thermobaric conditions. He graduated from the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas in Moscow as a petroleum engineer in 1977 and has subsequently held academic positions in both Russia and Sweden. He is currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of Energy Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Professor in the Department of Physics at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas. His research has also informed oil and gas exploration strategies through consultancy to national authorities and international energy companies.

Elected an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) on 11 April 2019, Professor Jaana Kaarina Bäck is a leading Finnish plant ecologist and an internationally recognised authority on forest–atmosphere interactions in boreal and Arctic ecosystems. Born in 1961, she received her M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Kuopio in 1985 and her Ph.D. in Physiological Plant Ecology from the University of Oulu in 1994, where her dissertation examined the effects of acidic precipitation on Scots pine and Norway spruce needles and their low-temperature tolerance. Following postdoctoral research at the Academy of Finland and visiting appointments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University in the United States, she joined the University of Helsinki in 2004. Since 2013, she has served as Professor of Forest–Atmosphere Interactions and leads the Ecosystem Processes Research Group at the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR). A Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters since 2018, she received its Pro Scientia Prize in 2017 for contributions that advanced the standing of science in society, and was appointed Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland in 2021.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2019, Professor Ming Zhu is a Chinese expert in agricultural engineering and technology management whose career has focused on seed processing technology, integrated agricultural engineering systems, and strategic research for modern agriculture. Born in January 1958 in Jiangling, Hubei Province, he graduated from the Department of Agricultural Machinery Design and Manufacturing of Huazhong Agricultural College (now Huazhong Agricultural University) in 1982 and joined the Academy of Agricultural Planning and Engineering (now the Academy of Agricultural Engineering Planning and Design of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs). He served as its President from 2001 to 2016 and Chief Scientist from 2016 to 2018, and is currently a Research Professor of the Academy. He has also served as President of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (2008–2018), Executive Vice President of the Society, President of the China Rural Energy Industry Association, and Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering. He is a member of the National Committee of the China Association for Science and Technology, an Endowed Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Huazhong Agricultural University, and Deputy Chairman of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Expert Committees on Agricultural Product Processing and Protected Agriculture. His honours include a First Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the China Youth Science and Technology Award, the China Agricultural Talents Award, the title of National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker, the State Council Special Allowance, and recognition as an Expert with Outstanding Contributions of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 19 September 2019, Dr. Steffen Manfred Noe is a distinguished German-born Estonian ecosystem and atmospheric scientist whose work has contributed significantly to the development of integrated ecosystem–atmosphere observation in the Baltic region. Born on 10 August 1966, he received his Dr. rer. nat. in Germany and began his research career at Darmstadt University before moving to Estonia in 2004 as a Marie Curie Fellow to join the research group of Professor Ülo Niinemets at the University of Tartu. In 2008, he joined the Estonian University of Life Sciences, where he currently serves as Senior Scientist at the Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Coordinator of the SMEAR Estonia station. Under his leadership, the Järvselja research infrastructure developed from an initial 20-metre measurement tower established in 2008 into a 130-metre atmospheric observation mast inaugurated in 2015. The resulting SMEAR Estonia station has become an important component of the Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX), the ACTRIS aerosol research infrastructure, and the ICOS greenhouse-gas observation network, while also providing a platform for international scientific training and collaboration.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2018, Professor Xi Chen is a distinguished Chinese geographer and remote sensing scientist, with recognised contributions to arid-land ecology, water resources, and sustainable development in Central Asia. Born in China, he received his Ph.D. and has pursued his academic career at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where he currently serves as Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Branch, Director of the CAS Research Centre for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia, Vice Chairman of the Xinjiang Association for Science and Technology, and Editor-in-Chief of the SCI-indexed Journal of Arid Land. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the China Society of Natural Resources. He has been elected Foreign Member of the Russian International Academy of Informatics in 2012, the Kazakh Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 2015, and the Tajik Academy of Sciences in 2016. His contributions have been recognised through the National Medal for Innovation and Excellence in 2017, the title of National Advanced Worker in 2005, and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Science and Technology Progress.