University of Liverpool — Professor Andy Cooper elected Foreign Member by Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor Andy Cooper, from the University’s Department of Chemistry, has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), one of the highest honours that China bestows on a citizen of a foreign country.
The appointment is in recognition of Professor Cooper’s significant contribution to the field of science and technology in China and his high academic standing internationally.
Professor Cooper was among 30 individuals worldwide elected by the General Assembly of CAS.
He joins a list of Foreign Members that includes many Nobel Prize winners, such as Professor Jean-Marie Lehn (Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1987), Professor Rudolph Marcus (Chemistry, 1992), Professor Sir Paul Nurse (Medicine, 2001), Professor Karl Barry Sharpless (Chemistry, 2001 & 2022), Professors Sir Konstantin Novoselov and Sir Andre Geim (Physics, 2010), and Professors Sir James Fraser Stoddart and Ben Feringa (Chemistry, 2016).
He said: “I am deeply honoured to have been elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is also a testament to my very talented co-workers, which has included a significant number of Chinese PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers.”
A Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor Cooper’s research is pushing boundaries at the interface of AI, robotics and chemistry. Read more
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