International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEAS

Academician

Luguang YAN

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Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Luguang Yan is a distinguished Chinese electrical engineer whose research and professional work have focused on special electrical equipment for scientific experimentation, pulsed power, applied superconductivity, and emerging energy technologies. Born in July 1935 in Beijing, with ancestral roots in Dongyang, Zhejiang Province, he studied electrical engineering at Tsinghua University before graduating with honours from the Power Engineering Department of the Moscow Power Institute in 1959. He subsequently joined the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he spent his research career and led groups working on inductive energy storage, fusion electrical engineering, and engineering superconducting magnets. He served as Director of the Institute from 1988 to 1999 and subsequently as Chairman of its Academic Committee, and also headed the Department of Technological Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 1999 to 2004, he served as President of Ningbo University and is now its Honorary President. A Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1991, he was elected a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1992 and a Member of TWAS in 2000. He has also served on the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and in a number of academic and professional organisations, including the Chinese Society for Solar Energy. His career has encompassed electrical engineering research, scientific-institution leadership, energy strategy, and higher education.

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Professor Yan’s research has centred on pulsed power, fusion electrical engineering, applied superconductivity, and electrical technologies for energy and transport. He led the development of large inductive energy-storage systems in China, including a facility used for high-energy laser experiments, and participated in the design and construction of the electromagnetic systems of the CT-6 and CT-8 tokamaks. His work in applied superconductivity produced practical superconducting magnet systems for applications including magnetohydrodynamic power generation and marine propulsion. He also organised research under the national 863 Programme on magnetohydrodynamic power generation and led the development of a large neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnet for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, contributing to the successful deployment of the instrument on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998. In the fields of renewable energy and advanced transport, he participated in strategic studies of sustainable energy systems, renewable-energy development, electric vehicles, and magnetic-levitation transportation, including feasibility studies related to the Shanghai maglev demonstration line. Professor Yan has published more than 110 scientific papers, produced numerous evaluated scientific and technological achievements, and received six national and Chinese Academy of Sciences awards for scientific and technological progress. Through sustained engineering research, scientific leadership, and engagement with emerging energy technologies, Professor Yan has contributed to the development of pulsed-power engineering, applied superconductivity, and new electrical technologies in China.